Well..........after moving from CA to Havasu a little more than a year ago and then remodeling the house here in Havasu we had a bunch of "Stuff" that we either didn't need, couldn't use or just didn't fit into a house that's about 1/2 the size of the one we had in CA so..................we decided to have a garage sale and try to move some of it out so I could recapture my "Man Cave"


My wife is the ultimate organizer and she placed the ad in the local "Shopper", made signs, borrowed tables from our friends and we stayed up the night before putting all the stuff out, putting prices on items and getting organized for the next morning (Yesterday). We decided we'd do a Friday/Saturday sale from 8-2.

We get up early yesterday to get the final details ready for the 8AM Garage door lift. First thing we're greeted with 36 degree temps at 6AM and there are already people waiting for us to open the doors........I'm like "We'll be open at 8". Shit I can't even get into the garage with out 5 people walking up to be "First". My first thought is "Hey can't you read we open at 8".........but 35 years of sales tells me to make hay while the sun shines....what are you looking for??

Well...........probably sold 30% of the stuff before 8AM.........60% by 9 and about 95% by the end of the first day.....including a Couch and Loveseat, furniture, silk plants, tools, an extra set of tires and wheels for the Jeep, electronics and even a few computers old (like windows XP running Office 2000 )...........I couldn't believe it!!

I had a great time actually....even though I had everything truly "Priced to sell" everyone wanted to "Dicker" and it was fun really....lots of fun I'll never forget this one guy; I had a screen door protector, you know the thing that keep s a dog from running through the bottom, it was brand new (still in the wrapper), probably $10 - 15 at Home Depot that the previous owner had left.....I had it marked $1 and the guy offered me .50 and I'm like "Really, you're offering me .50.....are you kidding me, you're not really serious are you??? his wife looked like super embarassed and he hesitated a minute and said....no I was only kidding and handed me a buck....what a tool!!

When the "Snowbirds" come to town apparently it's Garage Sale Central...........we literally had 300 people come through yesterday....no exaggeration!!!

Bottom line is when the day was done we sold almost everything that we really just wanted to get out of the Garage anyhow and actually decided to cancel today's session cuz there really wasn't anything left to sell....we're going to pack up the leftovers and take 'em down to Goodwill a little later.......then I get my garage back


Best part.............when the day was done, the garage is empty and ready to turn back into a ?man Cave" and we ended up with more than 2 grand in our pockets


We never had this kind of luck when we'd had a few Garage sales in CA but Havasu was amazing!!

Anyone else had a similar experience???