Showing posts with label garage sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garage sale. Show all posts

Saturday, May 8, 2021

kruger way garage sale


we had a garage sale today. i was dreading it and it was not an amazing experience, but it also wasn't horrible... i just hate people who want to haggle over already cheap prices. it does my head in. we did well though - a lot of the items went and we have less and less to get rid of ourselves.


we had a lot of things sell on marketplace - and even just from the photographs we had listed advertising the garage sale, which was good too, until i had people grumpy as we were moving things out of the garage as they arrived. oh i came to buy that! well, sorry - it's a garage sale. you could have just as easily messaged me on facebook too mate!


i was amazed more of the tools didn't sell, but we have decided to donate all of the leftovers to the ellenbrook mens shed. i emailed and received the most lovely response from their group. i know steve would be happy knowing they are going to a good cause.


because we haven't long come out of lockdown and masks are still required, we didn't have the best turnout either, but any sales are better than nothing.


the bike went immediately and was collected later that morning.


and right as we had given up and had decided to pack away and give up, a couple turned up in a van and bought all the remaining furniture! admittedly they wanted to pay a lot less than we had it listed for, but considering it was sell it cheap or give it away? it was an easy choice.


it's hilarious as the exact same thing happened at steve and oli's garage sale when they were moving from queensland to here - it was like they were saying "don't worry guys, we've got this!" i honestly couldn't believe it, what a coincidence!


one more thing down - we are almost there!

Saturday, June 27, 2015

garage sale!


it was 1am this morning and i was finally heading to my bed... after setting this up. i must admit, i'm more than just a little proud of myself, because i actually made this happen, with not a huge amount of help. i've been posting ad after ad on local buy/sell/swap pages, gumtree and facebook and then i just sat and hoped and prayed that people would not only come, but that they would actually buy our things!


and they did! we sold all but one of the large items, which we ended up gifting to the people who bought the vast majority of the furniture... get this, they turned up half an hour before we were going to close off... and it just so happened that we had everything they needed. coincidence? i think not! we were thrilled and so were they, because it worked perfectly.


the few things that were left over, we will be donating to the salvos in the next few days, as we do the last of the culling this week, but today has truly taken a weight off our shoulders, such a success and truly the answer to our prayers.


i can't believe that life in brisbane is about to be over... but believe it or not, it is, and in just over a week, the kendall family will be out of this house and soon joining us in perth, 
where we can be a family again ♥