THURSDAY 13
I don’t have to browse yard sales.  I get creative ideas from the customers who stop by ours.  I often ask them what they plan to do with the items they’re purchasing and gain some wonderful ideas:

Beads for various crafts and for school projects
Buttons for Christmas stockings, fabric art, and decorating boxes.
Old tins to decorate in a variety of ways
Canning  jars for drinking glasses, to decorate for pen holders, to use as vases.
Old table cloths for collecting and to cut for fabric art.
Crayons to color paper and coloring book pages for gift wrap.
Broken jewelry to recycle into new jewelry
Children’s board …read more

I marvel each time we have a yard sale the items that delight people who stop by, especially those into crafting. 
*One lady bought all the buttons my daughter had decided she could part with.  She told me she decorated clothing with them.  At a previous yard sale, a customer said she made Christmas stockings for sale and decorated them with buttons.
*A young man purchased a box of used crayons.  I asked if he had children who enjoyed coloring.
“No,” he replied.  “They’re for me.  I have some coloring book pages and am going to color them to make wrapping paper.”
*Another customer purchased …read more

All week long the kids have been counting down the days until Saturday. Why? Simple, last week they made some money doing a yard sale and wanted to try their hand at it again. Now they made less than $10 last week but they were inspired by this and wanted to do better.
Each day they went through their toys, clothes, etc to decide what was too small or something they no longer needed. This morning we took everything out and laid it nicely (spreading it out) on the driveway.
The first two hours only brought in a few people, but most …read more

As I’ve accumulated books about quilts, quilting, quiltmakers, and fabric art over the years, I haven’t purchased duplicates, but realize I have some I probably won’t use any longer, or which I’ve gone beyond.  As my daughter explained, “We go on to other types of quilting as we learn.”It’s always difficult for a book lover to part with books, but these, plus the many others my family and I own (6 children and adults) have begun to overwhelm the house and a storage area.
Craig’s List & Yard Sales
In summer, Beth and I make them available at our yard sales.  But that’s sort …read more