So last Saturday our neighborhood, Sarah’s Creek, held a neighborhood-wide garage sale. The idea was that the homeowner’s association would pay to advertise it, and all we had to do was drag our junk out into the driveway and sell it to suckers… er, passersby.
Weeks ago, a lady who has lived around here for a while gave us the low-down: “The way you really make money,” she said, “isn’t by selling your junk. See, it’ll be scorching out, so everyone will be really thirsty, so you can clean up selling Cokes and water to all the thirsty customers.”
We took this tip to heart, and a few days before the garage sale, we bought 9 twelve-packs of various sodas from HEB, along with a couple of pallets of bottled water. Here’s what our fridge looked like the night before the big day:
We also made a poster advertising our drinks, just 50 cents each. On Saturday morning we taped that poster to the fence, set up a couple of card tables with some stuff that we wanted to sell, filled two ice chests with Cokes, and waited for the money to roll in.
Now, you have to understand, we thought we were in on some kind of big secret. We thought we were masterminds of the highest calibre. Turns out, no. Everybody was selling drinks. And they all had a lot more merchandise sitting out to draw people in. I think we sold about 10 drinks total in 3 hours, leaving a mere 134 to awkwardly fill our refrigerator. Sheesh.
Well, lesson learned: If you have a clever scheme to make a little money, save yourself some time and energy by scrapping the whole idea and sleeping in.
hahahahahaha this is priceless 🙂