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Yard Sale.... Flop :/

I had BIG dreams people! BIG OLE DREAMS that I would put together a yard sale/ craft display and it would be a smash success! (Part of me wanted to justify my millions of crafting hours spent) (And another part of me just wanted the junk out of my house :))

So I began to purge every  room... And make grand piles in the garage of stuff that needed to go...(most things were hidden in bags so the kids didn't know until that morning ) (yes some of you wiser Mothers would have foreseen the disaster that this was to become ....Sigh)

I also began to get together a sampling of the crafts that I have intended to try and sell on Etsy.com

I even scoured the internet on tips to making your yard sale a success... Tips like

• Laying everything in groups that are visable to the street
• Advertising on Craigslist and Facebook
•  Pricing your goods
• Put big ticket items towards the back so people need to walk through your junk to get to it.... (hee hee hee ) 

• Do it on a day when others are selling as well so there is more traffic ( Our town was having its anual Walkersville Days this Saturday)

So Friday night comes and I am running around like a banshee ( I know its is a stretch for you to imagine me like that ...Lol) 

But by the end of my tirade... the Garage is ready.

Oh

 Yeah 

the 

Yard 

Sale 

Junk 

Too

Ok so right about now you are thinking this girls got it together... she is prepared... I see big things in her future .... RIGHT??? 

WRONG!

You probably already know what I didn't

Yard Sale patrons want cheap junk... not handmade hair clips and art :/

Lesson learned...

We had about 100 people who all politely walked by my Simply Lilie display , and some really kind words were muttered :) But not one person bought anything.... Hahahaha.... 

The yard sale stuff was a hit though and in the end it was a pretty good day of getting to know new neighbors and life lessons learned for the princess who was just as distraught to find that no one wanted to buy her stuffed animals either !

Lessons Learned:

• Know your audience
• Know your audience
• Know your audience!!!!!

I hope you all have a Blessed and Fabulous Sunday... as for me I plan on relaxing......

Love,

Lilie

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