Then after pushing it back a week Thursday rolls around and I'm still completely not prepared enough to start a yard sale the next morning, so I decide to do Saturday only.
I realized quickly that Friday's do the best in OKC for some strange reason. I guess that is when all the hardcore yard sale folks come out because even though we had a steady stream of traffic, in comparison to previous years we were really lacking foot traffic.
By the end of the day we didn't do too shabby, a couple hundred bucks in our pocket, but we still had MANY big ticket items left that I was sure would have sold.
I'm also learning that at yard sales, you actually can make more on the tiny dollar here, five dollars there items than the big ticket things. I decided that I would list some of our larger items online at Craigslist thinking that it would be less headache.
It wasn't.
I was wrong.
REALLY wrong.
Sometimes everything goes smoothly on Craigslist with the transaction. You post an item for said price, person contacts you in kind an courteous manner. They show up at said time, hand you cash, pick up the said item and are on their happy little way.
I said SOMETIMES.
There are several things that people do to annoy me on Craigslist, but I'm gonna stick to the top THREE of my Craigslist pet peeves.
Craigslist Idiot #1 "What is the lowest that you are willing to go."
Really? (In my best Amy Poehler voice) CI? (craigslist idiot) Really? If I wanted to sell my $40 item for $10 I would have posted it for ten dollars, not $40. I understand negotiation, and wanting to get the best deal possible, and even I expect a little price negotiation and haggling, but lets learn how to do it properly. Quote me an offer of an actual dollar amount and we can go from there. Coming right out and asking me though "How low are you willing to go?" Really? Makes me insane.
CI #2 - "Can you please txt me a pic of it?"
Really? I am one of those Craigslist shoppers that 99.9% of the time I will not even LOOK at your add if it does not contain photos. Therefore I always do my buyers the courtesy of adding a quick photo or two to my posting. Asking me to text a photo of the picture to you (while using short text) just makes me irate. I mean REALLY? My response to this last night was the following "there were photos added to the post. Here is a link once again to my post showing the photos." and I sent them a link.
CI #3 - "Can you deliver the item?"
Ok, I guess that maybe I may be the CI in this circumstance for not posting "pickup only" but sometimes I just think that is a given. In the retail world I do not call up Petco and ask them to deliver me a dog crate, I go and pick up the item that I want. If you don't want to pick it up sometimes stores WILL offer a delivery option but REALLY you have to expect a fee for this, and you definitely can't be trying to talk me down on my price while asking me to drive an HOUR to deliver you a DOG CRATE. Really? There is a section on Craigslist informing you where I'm located in the city so please don't act shocked when I tell you my nearest crossroads folks.
Ok, I promise I'll stop my rant now.
So, I got the purple sofas out of my den.
Here is what my den looked like if you recall:
Those overstuffed sofas just were not doing it for us anymore. They were taking up a TON of space. They never sold in the yard sale, but I have a couple interested folks on Craigslist, so we will see how it goes.
I've gone back in forth in my wonderful world of crazy indecisiveness over the past week whether to try to recover these two Wingback chairs that I currently have in my possession or just buy new chairs for this room.
Recovering furniture is NOT an easy task, and since the two chairs are not matching I'm afraid that it will look odd.
When we got them side by side they really don't look THAT much different. One is slightly bigger, but I plan on putting a table between the two of them so they won't be THIS close when complete. Also maybe I could add a "his" and "hers" pillow in each chair just to be kinda cute.
Right now I'm like 99.9% sure that I'll recover them.
I will probably change my mind tomorrow.
I tell you folks, I'm crazy. I don't know how my husband puts up with me. That's all I need is another project that I can't finish.
Oh, by the way, I finally got the baskets and fabric for my entryway bench.
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| forgive me for this craptastic photo of my bench |
We are almost there folks, almost there...
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