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Garage Sale Meeting

July 31st, 2012 at 06:42 pm

I'm meeting with my university gals this afternoon to plot our garage sale strategy. I can tell it's almost August and still two months from payday by everyone's growing enthusiasm for this project. We're all broke.

At my evening class last night I ran a colleague who is joining in our sale. She's just pulled a slightly dinged DVD player from the classroom garbage hoping to sell it Saturday.

In another communal venture, we've decided to "shop" in each others' kids' outgrown clothing piles after the sale and then regularly from now on. Everyone is tickled and relieved.

DD and I walked again this morning after a "mystery shopper" breakfast at McDonald's. Neither of us is too fond of McD's breakfast, but she ate the pancakes and I'll make a breakfast burrito from the eggs tomorrow. DH hates wasting food so I'll bet I can get him to eat the biscuit. I did feel a little odd snapping photos of the breakfast, but heck, it was kind of fun. I haven't done one of these in years, and I'm not sure how regularly I'd do it, but for a change....

Posted in Offspring, Junk and more junk, Food, glorious food | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “Garage Sale Meeting”

  1. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    July 31st, 2012 at 08:08 pm 1343765293
    1343765293

    That's a great way to save money on kid's clothes (and adult clothes too if you have anyone near you of similar size/taste.) Smile

  2. librarylady Says:
    July 31st, 2012 at 09:35 pm 1343770514
    1343770514

    I've always wanted to try the mystery shopper thing. I heard about someone doing it at a church!
    Somehow the church got folks to come as visitors to see how friendly the church members were to them.
    The times we live in now. Wink

  3. Jerry Says:
    August 4th, 2012 at 10:14 pm 1344118493
    1344118493

    "Shopping" in friends' outgrown clothing is how we have been able to clothe our daughters while I am in school, quite seriously. Sometimes people have even given us their kids' outgrown clothing, and some of it has been new or nearly new. I know that some people totally look down on it, but I could not care less. My wife has an amazing eye, she is as frugal as they come, and our kids look adorable. It leads us to be able to thrive while money is tight, and offers us some insurance of being able to do the same for others when our kids outgrow things.
    Jerry

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