grah.

[valis2]

Today was the first day of the garage sale.

Slow.

We sold some stuff, but not anywhere near what I had hoped to.

Sister was going to help me, but was very ill this morning. So I had to run around like a loon and try to get things arranged. And Husband had brought up EVERYTHING from the basement and piled it in the aisles. Let me tell you, I am exhausted. I moved it all out onto the driveway by myself and unpacked another twenty boxes and put up a tent and...etc.

Bad luck #1: I reposted the Craigslist ad yesterday, and then went to repost it this morning. (I am aggravated that, in order to repost, you must delete and then post anew.) Only, I forgot that it has a captcha thing, and I was super crazed so I just hit post and ran away. So. My ad was not visible this morning, as it was deleted, and the new ad was waiting to be verified. Sigh.

Bad luck #2: All eight of our signs were "uprooted," according to Husband. I don't know how and/or who. I *do* know that we had two signs in front of our yard, and one of them was down at about one because the neighbor girl came and told me. Not certain what happened.

All in all? I am wishing I'd just donated it all in one fell swoop.

I hope tomorrow is better.

At least I see gypsyjolie and my BIL tomorrow morning. One lovely ray of light in the otherwise stress-filled weekend.

Comments

[ook.livejournal.com]

You need to go out early tomorrow and put out at least 15 signs, especially ones on busy roads near your neighborhood. I always taped my signs to electrical or telephone poles (simply going around the entire pole with tape, along the top and bottom of the sign). It's harder to remove signs like that (signs on sticks can simply be pulled out of the ground).

I remember that one woman who came to my sale got angry for some reason and someone later told me that they saw about a mile away, tearing down one of my signs.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Let me try to explain the strange geographical quandry I'm in--I live on a country road which stretches out over several miles and has almost no crossroads at all, due to an enormous state park south of us and railroad tracks/giant freeway north of us. I've covered the only crossroads that might draw people in, honestly. Any further out, and I'd be worried about wasting the time.

And Husband stapled one into a telephone pole. There aren't many spots for them, unfortunately, considering that a couple of the intersections can barely even be called intersections. Anyway, at this point I have no extra signs, so I'm just going to have to make do with the ones I have. :(

I am really worried about the angry woman thing! Hopefully I won't piss anyone off somehow tomorrow.