Green is my favorite color

Green really is my favorite color, but I like this kind of green too!
This morning, I had a yard sale. I'd been planning on doing a yard sale since before Christmas, but it didn't happen. So, I decided I would do it today, even though I didn't expect a huge crowd. I thought it might be too close after the holidays for people to be out spending money, but I was wrong!

When I say I had a yard sale, I mean I sold items from my stockpile. That's all I sold-just stockpile items.
I started setting up at 7:30 and by 9:30 I was almost out of stock. In my area, people really haggle and are looking for super cheap deals. So I priced almost everything at $1. I had a small table with some $2 items, but at least 1/3 of that I sold to hagglers for $1 each.
Shampoos and toothpaste were definitely the top sellers. I closed up by 10:00 because I didn't have much left. I still ended up with one bin full of stuff when I put it away, but it had looked pretty sparse on my tables. (I started with about 5 bins worth of stuff.) I sold shampoos, conditioners, styling products, hair colors, mouthwash, toothpaste, toothbrushes, air fresheners, razors, soap, deodorants, and makeup.

We had a small mishap with the makeup. I had my basket full of makeup behind the table and was pulling stuff out to sell and putting it into another basket on the table. We got slammed before I finished sorting the makeup, so I just left MY basket behind the table. I was at the other end of the tables helping one customer when I turned around and there were about 5 women behind my table going through MY makeup! My daughter was working that end and sold them a bunch of the stuff I had wanted to keep. They decimated my makeup stockpile! But it's not all a loss, I decided I was probably keeping too much anyways and free makeup is pretty easy to come by. I just hope I come by it before I run out of any of my current items I'm using. :)

I also had put out some K-Y seeing as how I have so much of it and need to really get rid of it, but it wasn't selling. So I put a "free" sign on it and it started flying off the table. Some people were even asking what it was as they grabbed 4 and 5 each. LOL But put "free" on something around here and everyone wants it. :)

All in all it was a good sale, I cleaned out a good portion of my "overstock" and I made $355. I paid my kids for helping out and still had $325 left. Not bad for 2 1/2 hours worth of work. :)