Church Sale Delight & Consignment Store Disappointment

SO yesterday was the big annual sale at the HG Methodist Church. We went to scope it out ard 11, bought a few items, & double-checked that bag sale would be held from 2-3- yes!!

Roll north to TN, check a few pitiful YS, decide to stop at CS near Parks City that I hadn't visited in a yr or so.

Wow. Big let down. It was so bad that Hubby even noticed, lol! He came over after 5 minutes & asked 'do you feel the love?' I half-giggled, said 'uh. NO!' and relayed that on my previous visit, this store had oodles of interesting mid to higher end garments. Now? Nothing but White Stag, Cherokee, Gap, Jacklyn Smith, you get the idea. :-( The only 'designer' label I found was Liz Claiborne, lol!

The presence of all those mart brands was bad enough, however, 50% or more of these items were worn, pilled, and/or faded. Prices start at $4.99

Wonder how long she'll stay afloat with such cruddy merchandise ??

Stopped at couple more wanna-be YS-- YKWIM, when someone slops a bunch of carp onto a couple tables, doesn't bother to price ANYthing, parks their fat arse in a chair, and ignores everyone who stops to ogle their wares? Yeah. Bought nothing & even commented 'pfft, nothing is priced' in a loud enough voice as we left the last one, heehee.

Went to grocery store, took Hubby & food home, grabbed a bite and headed back to the bag sale :) Like to never got bags from the lady distributing them. First, there was a goofy-rolling-in-floor-oh-ain't-he-cute brat blocking the doorway. Tired of waiting for that mess to cease, so I went ard to the other door, approached lady, she scoots off to someone else, follow her, scoot, follow, then I asked LOUDLY 'Hey, can I get some bags?' which landed me 2, so I asked for a 3rd. She extened 4 bags to someone approaching and wasn't going to give me a 3rd. Whatever you old biddy. She gave it up after another request.

Toted my box, filled it, stopped to fold & bag, all 3 are full. Bag lady came around offering more bags - to everyone in the area BUT me. Fruit. Looked at the rest of the clothing, put in box, found a bag on the floor -HA!- Made a trip by the tables of stuff & found a couple trinkets.

The checkout lady was very nice & commented how smart I was to bring a box, lol! I'm taking my wheelie cart next year as the box quickly became too heavy to tote, so I resorted to scooting, and tho I kept the box against me while shopping, people still kept trying to take stuff out & drop stuff in as they passed ??

Can't wait til next year :o)

Yard Sale Dismay Part Deux

Seriously, I'm started to think my YS dream is jinxed!!

We were rained out last weekend, so decided to try this weekend as there's no rain in the area. Great. I go to The Huntsville Times on Tuesday & place the ad to run Thursday thru Saturday with the YS being Friday & Saturday.

Spent all day Thursday dragging down truckload of stuff I just got this week. Had a guy stop & inquire about sale. We had no signs up, so I figured he saw ad in the newspaper & just didn't note that it was for Fri-Sat.

Friday morn, up early, spent 4 hours out in the heat. No one. Hubby gets home, we go put up signs around 2:30 advertising the sale on Sat from 8-2. So then, 2 people showed up between 4 & 5 Friday afternoon, lol! They bought over 50 items, I was going woohoo!!

This morning rolls around. Up early, Hubby put some big stuff out, we're ready for the crowds!! An hour passes, then two and we'd only had 2 customers :( I check the newspaper to see if any other sales are nearby and guess what?! My ad is not in there!!! Arrrrghhh!!!!!

My Dad gets the paper daily (not just w/e like us), so I call to see if he's home & can check Thursday & Friday. He's not home. I come up to house, check online--- sure nuff it did not run at allll!!!!

I call the newspaper only to get a recording, wow, big help The Huntsville Times, you're really on top of your game. I have my receipt, the one time I paid cash, no less, and will stop by their office on Monday while I'm in Huntsville.

So for today, we waited until noon, then went & took down the signs on the main roads. An older couple was here looking at stuff when we got back, and we ended up selling them a good bit :)

There's still 4 frigging pickup loads of stuff down there. I left a collection box & a note with it, either they pay or they don't, lol!

Our tenant in Huntsville has been insisting we bring all to his place & set up, so I guess that's on the agenda for next weekend. We will NOT be placing an ad with the Times for this sale (house is right on the Parkway, no need!)

Yard Sale Saturday !!

WooHoo! Hope to get rid of loads of stuff, lol!

Sure is a lotta work to get ready. We're running an ad in the paper this time- $22 bucks, ouch!- better be worth it!

Off to gather and tag more...

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