How To Have a Successful Yard Sale

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yard sale meme “How To Have a Successful Yard Sale”

  1. Decide the afternoon before to join your neighbor for a yard sale.

  2. Spend the entire afternoon sorting through one box of pictures. Oh my gosh…look how cute the kids were! Is that my great uncle or the grandfather I never knew? Stop….focus!

  3. Look at the incredibly huge list of things to get rid of. Choose one thing to do from list.

  4. Move mirror from hall into powder room.

  5. Cross the big mirror move off the list.

  6. Answer the phone and talk to friend for an hour about the big garage sale tomorrow.

  7. Where was I?

  8. Oh, yes…catch up on Facebook. Watch funny cat video. Check e-mail. Wait…what was I on here for? Oh, yeah…check tomorrow’s weather. Oh great…rain!

  9. Tell neighbor you’re doing swimmingly when she comes for an update on garage sale prep.

  10. Holy crap, what was I thinking?!?!

  11. Meet a friend for dinner. You have to keep your strength up for the big day tomorrow!

  12. Call another friend to tell them about the HUGE yard sale tomorrow!

  13. Go to bed early in preparation for the big day. Rest is important!

  14. Write a blog post about the really huge, tremendously important garage sale tomorrow and confess you are ill-prepared but game to give it a try.

Get up at the butt-crack of dawn. Please, Lord….bring me coffee. Where are those price stickers?