This weekend I held a yard sale for mom. She brought over a bunch of stuff and most of her furniture to sell. On Friday I made 11 signs and posted them in the neighborhood and on the main streets leading into the neighborhood. There are always a bunch of yard sales going in this area every weekend from May -September. This time last year I made $450 at our family sale. We had (literally) over one hundred people come through. This weekends sale started much the same as the last one with the early birds showing up at 7 am as we were setting up. I figured it was a good start and by 8:00 we had already made about $50. Then it all stopped. The only traffic we had was neighbors walking the neighborhood or riding by on bikes. A few cars stopped as people were heading to or from home. We never had more than 2 people in the yard at once. I was stunned. It was warm but surely not warm enough to stop the hard core yard salers. It was Father's Day weekend but surely not everyone left town. We stayed out until 3pm. Between 2 wonderful neighbors mom made another $100 but there was so much left that should've been prime yard sale material. After packing it all in I drove around to take down the signs. And then I knew what happened. All of my signs leading into the neighboerhood were up. 6 signs within the neighborhood had been removed and in their place were signs directing people around my block to a sale 2 streets over. I drove to all six spots and sure enough every single one had been replaced. I was FURIOUS. I drove to the other sale. In front of the house was a little older couple and a large thuggish thirty something male. I pulled up and put down my window and asked if they were the only sale on that block. The thug said yes. I told him that we too had a sale that day and that all my signs were down and his were in their place. He replied (with a smirk) that he posted his signs at 8:00 and that there were no other signs when he went out. Well that would explain why our traffic stopped at 8. I could tell the little couple had no idea what had happend so I chose to be a good neighbor and leave before all the very choice, decidely non-christian words came flowing out of my mouth that I had been restraining.
Who does that???? Are yard sales that cut throat? Bt the time I got home I was shaking with anger. My mom needed that money. She did well considering we had NO signs in the neighborhood but it could've been better. Well, sister is having a sale this weekend and hopefully mom will sell the rest of her stuff. And now they know to check their signs.
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