The garage sale was a huge success. We easily had over 100 people stroll through our driveway and we managed to sell almost everything. Actually, Josh & Kev managed to sell almost everything. They were amazing. Josh in particular was quite the wheeler and dealer.

For those of you who don’t know, Josh is a very old buddy of Kev’s from high school. He is the quintessential “good guy”. I can count on my right hand the number of times I have see Josh without a smile on his face. Now, one would think such a sweet person would be a push-over in the dog eat dog world of garage sale haggling – but you’d be dead wrong.

I watched Josh as he sized up each person who stepped out of their car. He’d watch what they were looking at, gauge their interest, and then move in for the kill. All smiles and friendly, he’d slowly drop the price until they couldn’t say no. If he couldn’t lower the dollar amount, he’d start throwing in free bonus items like coffee mugs or vases until they had to say yes. A big fan of “service with a smile”, he’d bag the items and then carry them to the person’s car. The man is a genius. If he ever decided to join the dark side and opened his own used car lot, we’d all be in trouble.

We managed to net, after expenses, a whooping $350 bucks. This total becomes much more impressive when you realize that 70% of our items were priced at .25 each. Now the question becomes, what to do with our new found wealth…..