Garage Sales and Birthdays...

So... Yesterday we had our big multi-family garage sale! I am new to the whole garage sale world. I never had one before and really haven't ever been to one. It was quite an experience. I have spent the past few months looking through my house and garage, getting our "stuff" together to sell. I was then up at 5:30am to getting things set up. We borrowed tables from the firehouse (thanks to Richard for picking them up) and hung up signs (thanks to Gretchen for making some of them). We actually had quite a few people come through... a bunch came early, before we were even ready for them! We tried to be really organized, we color coded the tables... I had green table cloths, Jill had Blue, Gretchen had pink... and my father-in-law and Sara Snarr didn't have any :( What I found so funny is that we all looked through each others sale items... below you will see Emily with a stuffed dog she got from Jills tables. Katie, Allison, CHristopher, Natalie, Hannh, Megan, Hannah, Ava, Taylor and Emily all worked to make a lemonade stand. After a while, they actually gave up and went swimming for a few hours (thanks Karen for watching them in the pool!)

Hi Karen! You can see there was clothes layed out on plastic tableclothes along the walkway for everyone to look through...
From the walkway...
Allison and Ava
So at the end of the day I made enough money to pay for a new lens for my Digital Rebel! Rich and I were orignally going to split the profits... but since today was my birthday... he gave me his half and that completely covers the cost of the lens!!! YAY. The best part is that I will have it before our camping vacation to Seneca Lake!