Less than 2 weeks to go till my big garage sale to benefit my Weekend to End Breast Cancer walk. I’m excited about all the donated items I have to sell. My garage is bursting and it’s spilling over into the rec room, the laundry room and my daughter’s empty bedroom now! I’ve decided not to take any more clothes (except for kids clothes) It’s just too much work sorting through it all, washing and hanging or folding everything, and taking out all the stained or damaged items.  Most  of what I’ve been given has been great though: A beautiful set of matching baby nursery bedding in a barnyard motif, a Fisher Price Smart Cycle (it’s a bike that hooks up to the TV and you play games by riding the bike) and lots of working small appliances like a toaster oven, a vertical indoor grill, a microwave, a couple of TVs, and TONS of books! Our neighbours even donated a patio bar and set of swivel bar chairs in great condition.

I am having dreams about how to price everything, how to set up the sale and what to do if it rains! (especially after it SNOWED this weekend!) I thought about trying to get a portable shelter or tent donated, but it’s like pulling teeth to get companies to help on short notice. They all seem to want several months lead time for charitable requests. At least Starbucks came through for me! The manager said yes right on the spot and is donating coffee, cups, a raffle basket of goodies and even some store decor items she no longer needs that I can sell. So happy about that!

I guess if the forecast looks wet, we could clear out what we can of our own garage stuff, move it into the house, move the car to the street and set the tables up in there. We’d have to cover everything we’ve got stored in there or people will be trying to buy it.I still need to find some tables to borrow. There’s SO MUCH stuff and I want to try to display as much of it as possible. Nobody wants to be digging through boxes or piles of stuff.

Price tags are another thing. I was hoping I could print sheets of prices onto sticky labels, but the labels I have aren’t the removable kind. I stuck some to my Juicybags coin purses for a craft fair once and they were nearly impossible to remove. Maybe I can find a differnt kind of blank sticky label paper with removeable adhesive somewhere. I’m planning to price similair items with signs, such as “all paperback books 50 cents, or 3 for a dollar” and that should cut down on the number of price tags I need to do.

Still worried about how I’m going to manage this sale on my own. Jon has finals for his current course the Monday following the sale so he won’t have much time to help. Yikes– this could be hectic!