My First Yard Sale

As part of decluttering the house I've had boxes of stuff in my dining and living rooms awaiting the day our neighborhood did another block sale. We didn't exactly have another block sale, but both of my neighbors asked me if I would do a yard sale with them. Are you kidding!!

I took Thursday and Friday off from work to prepare and man my tables since the sale Friday and Saturday. As it turned out I couldn't take Friday off and worked on work stuff Thursday morning which goofed things up some, but in the end I got 80% of my stuff out onto the tables.

Thankfully about 50% of it sold. After giving my neighbor who watched all my stuff Fri., and part of Sat. while I brought more stuff out, $20 for her trouble; I cleared $74.75 on the whole thing.

We put some of the big items out on the curb to see if anyone would take them and boxed the remaining stuff up for Goodwill. On Sunday while loading up the van for the Goodwill run, a woman pulled up in front. She had trouble walking so we asked her if she needed any help. She wanted my mom's old porta potty. My mom very big and needed an extra wide model. She only used it a few times and it still looked like new, but all these years I could never find anyone who wanted it. Turns out while at church this particular Sunday morning another rather heavy woman got up and said she needed a porta potty and booster seat. This woman, on a whim, came down our street and lo and behold what did she find! Way to go Holy Spirit!! After a bit of moving stuff around we fit everything into her car and she sped down the street praising God's name for bringing her friend the very thing she needed. I praise God for getting the porta potty, booster seat and accessories out of my dining room and into a good home.