July 10, 2004--Choir garage sale

Today was our choir garage sale. It's a huge sale they have every year, and one of the most eagerly antipated events for me. There is always so much stuff. They collect donations from our whole church in the week before it. Our church is fairly large, so there are usually lots of donations!
The doors opened at 8:00. The Missionette's group was also having a bake sale, and being a parent of two of the Missionettes, I had to stay up last night baking cookies. I thought they were going to be disasters for awhile. The brownies were quite crunchy and the coconut bars were really gooey. In the morning, however, they looked better. The coconut bars had solified and one of the pans of brownies turned out be softer than the ones we had sampled. We were supposed to be there before 8:00, but we were a few minutes late. It's kind of hard to get out the door at 7:30 when Erick doesn't even get home until 7:15 or later.

I bought a few things in the morning, but only the things I really wanted. The rest I was going to wait until 1:00, because then everything is a dollar a bag. The kids each brought their dimes and bought a toy or two. I got some coffee cups (our tile kitchen floor had reduced our inventory to only one) and some adorable princess jelly shoes for Rachel, some clothes, and a few toys to put away for the kids for Christmas. One of those was one of the skateboards with the handles. Unfortunatley, Erick forgot to tell them not to look in the back of the van and they all saw it, so that ended up being given to them this afternoon instead of waiting until Christmas.

Abby picked out a doll stroller that someone had put $5 on. They let me have it for $2. This is a very low-priced garage sale. The furniture is usually the only stuff that's $5 or more.

When I came back by myself at 1:00, I had even more fun. A treadmill that my husband had had his eyes on was still there, and things that wouldn't fit in a bag were now half price. I bought it for $10. I bought four bags of various clothes, toys, and other miscellaneous object for a dollar apiece, and a chalkboard and a juicer. They told me the last two items were worth a bag and sold them to me both for a dollar.

I was able to get a lot of clothes for the kids that they really needed. The older ones especially were growing out of their things and I didn't have much saved back for them. I am so thankful for the opportunity every year to get clothes for my kids and help out our choir as well!