How in the hell did you manage that?
Well, see…mostly we wanted things gone. The more costly, antique-y stuff was not in that sale. But I’m a physical disaster (more nerve testing this morning) and MrSue’s organizational skills have wandered off into the forest, so we needed LOTS of help.
MiniSue & MrMiniSue were there. MiniSue’s good buddy who no-showed on a previous work event was there doing penance, so his labor was free.
But, THEN, there’s K. She is a brilliant woman from an
interesting family. Her late mom collected lime Jello. Boxes and cases and cartons of lime Jello. Her dad, now retired, was a surgeon…with narcolepsy…a somewhat career-limiting condition. One sibling found luggage on sale and bought several pieces and shared. Mom returned from Cabo the same day one son was taking off for London…which explains how K’s brother ended up in London with a suitcase full of women’s swim clothes, lingerie and underwear.
K has been sick, had surgeries and works in an on-again-off-again industry. She’s MORE than a tad ADHD, and she’s broke. So she does occasional yard sale prep, including pricing, advertising and negotiating with buyers, awaiting her next real gig. She sold some item of hers for $14 and asked me for her $14 right away, because her car was leaking gas.
Well, shit, too. Fourteen dollars? Leaking gas?
So…when it was all done, I realized that I still had the $700 VISA Debit card from the CA middle class taxpayer thing. And K needed a working car to work in SoCal. So, I gave her the debit card & told her to take herself, MiniSue & MrMiniSue to dinner and keep the change. For her THREE DAYS OF NONSTOP LABOR. (We are not Santa Claus. But we had possessed that debit card for about two years and apparently didn’t REALLY have a deep need for it…and meanwhile, someone we care for was apparently really struggling and had a REAL need for $ to be able to keep working.)
We had forgotten to count the cash in the shoebox, so…MiniSue got $200 for the stuff she sold and we ended up with $377 of the shoe box money for our stuff.
So our ACTUAL loss was only $323. We would have had to pay more to have things hauled away.
Now…the 1920’s -1930’s Jacobean-style dining room and bedroom furniture including a “serpentine footboard,” my grandparents had. Still gotta sell that stuff.
You have a big heart!
