Garage Sale Weekend

Don and I really haven't been thinking about or dealing with more than a couple days ahead of us at a time.  God has definitely had us in a "one-step-at-a-time" mode only dealing with what is immediately in front of us.  So last Thursday, when we sat down to look at the calendar for the next week, we determined that the only available weekend for the large garage sale that had been accumulating in our garage was that weekend.

So our to do list for the following 24 hours?

...Pull off a big garage sale with virtually no prep time...  CHECK!

It was a little haphazard and looked more like a lot of blankets and bins thrown in our yard piled with stuff that had no price.  But that's ok!  At the end of the day, we had sold a decent amount, made some new friends, taught our kids how to run a small business, and hauled the rest of the unsold merchandise off to the Goodwill.

Mission accomplished!  :)

(We had 59 stuffed animals in our garage sale...this did not include the 2 full bins we will be taking to Africa with us.  I was slightly horrified...)

Our little entrepreneurs...  Daddy taught them about overhead costs and marketing strategies.  They actually did pretty well.  I mean, who could say "no" to this crew?

I was SO proud of our kids this day.  I thought garage sale day would be met with many tears and feelings of much loss.  Although there were a couple rescue missions attempted (with success - what can I say?!?), the kids did amazingly well letting go of their "treasures."  We are praying God continues to show them a bigger picture outside of themselves and that they truly see that loving people in Jesus's name is WORTH ALL SACRIFICE!