Garage Sale Observations

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I spent a good deal of Friday and Saturday at Mom and Dad's garage sale. Here are some random observations:

  • It's amazing how you can price something dirt cheap, and someone still wants it for half of that amount. Like that extra 50 cents will break them.
  • I got a lot of sunburn. Snuck up on me.
  • One lady came back, saying she had given us a ten dollar bill, but only got change for a five. How to prove differently? Pam, a CPA, took her money. Pam don't make money mistakes. But Dad gave the lady a five. Benefit of the doubt. Then she probably went down the street to another garage sale and did the same thing. So says the cynic in me.
  • Lots of Hispanics came.
  • Women are good at folding clothes. Have some extra gene that guys lack.
  • We had two big boxes of Christmas lights, one dollar each. One guy wanted to know if we'd take a dollar for both boxes together. Dad said no. "Then I'm not interested," the guy said. I guess he'd prefer spending $30 at a store.

Posted on May 25, 2008 11:09 PM|

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