The Magnuson's: Treasure Hunting

This weekend we had a Moving Sale and it was a huge success! We are moving in a few months and this was our planned one attempt to downsize. I had been organizing for weeks for this and thank goodness all of the work paid off! We got up bright and early that morning and I drove out to put the signs up on the roads. Then I organized everything on the tables and we brought out all of the furniture and by 6:45am people started rolling up! It was still dark! So much for asking in my newspaper ad for 'No Early Birds Please'. I can't complain though because we sold almost everything...only about 15 items left (and we probably started with about 100!). It was great! The best part I think was watching Landon walk around and yell at people for buying his old toys, all in his t-shirt and diaper with his morning milk. One woman even said, "Sorry pal, it's mine now" haha! Most people laughed at his reactions, but this lady was determined to get as many of the toys as possible. Another woman said she was 'Treasure Hunting'. I thought that was really cute. I am so glad that I priced every item in the weeks before because I can't tell you how many people came up to me in all of the chaos and started bargaining. Had there not been an initial price, I think I would have almost given everything away for free because it was so stressful! But, like I said, it was all worth it and the 6:45am rush (we're talking like almost 15-20 people all rushing up and grabbing things like it was Black Friday and asking me tons of questions) is where we sold almost all of our stuff! When the sun was finally up and I was able to take a breath, I looked around and realized that it was all almost gone! So, our first Magnuson family yard sale was a success! Phew!

Once the am rush was over, we had about half left to sell.