Married Leos

Well I love going to garage sales but I hate having them.  I always seem to have a bad experience with them.  The first one I had  was at our first house, I had tons to sell. Now of course my first time having one I had no clue how to price stuff (you live and learn).  I remember having a tea kettle that I never used it was given to me by a friend. So I had put $1.00, yes one dollar. This little old man comes up to me and asks “can I give you .50 cents for it?” I looked at him and said “Well it does have a sticker that says $1.00 on it”. His reply, (are you ready for this) “well it is used ya know”.  NO SHIT SHERLOCK!! THAT’S WHY PEOPLE HAVE GARAGE/YARD SALES, TO GET RID OF “USED” ITEMS. So nice person that I can be at times I sold the damn thing to him for .50 cents.  Next come my people, yes Mexicans, people tend to think I am white because I am light complected and the majority of Mexicans have that nice tan look, so I love to play the “white” roll at times. So here comes a small car with about 5 adults and 4 kids, (seriously) and they are lookling around and the elder man is all excited because we had a color tv set for only $10.00, it was an 19 inch and he said he wanted it, of course he thinks he needs a translator so I was asked if it worked, I said yes it does and feel free to plug it in to make sure. Poor old man carried it himself into my garage to plug it in, in the mean time the younger man tells his wife in spanish, look at this phone it is for a double line and it is only $5.00, (the king had paid over $100.00 and at this point it worked kind of funny so we priced it at $5.00). So back to the old man, he yells out that the tv works and that it looks like the one he had before, and so he wants it. The woman that he was with asked me if it came with a remote, I said no, then she asked if I would sell it for……….. are you ready for this?  $7.00! I was shocked that she would ask, for petesake the tag said $10.00!! I said no, so she got mad the old man said” hey that’s ok I still want it”. He pulled out $10.00 and carried the tv to the car. What a sweet man. Well the people bought some stuff, but at the end of the day when I was putting the stuff back into the garage for the next day I noticed that my phone was gone, I know for a fact that no one bought it. Oh was I pissed!! That bitch was mad because I wouldn;t come down on the price of the tv so she stole my phone.

The next day I had another Mexican family come to the sale. Again I play dumb to what they are saying in Spanish.  You can tell that the man was the one who gave the orders in the house, very old fashioned. The woman had seen a few things she liked and he says to her “Oh you don;t need that” so she would put it back and look some more. She saw  a watch that my daughter had out there to sell, I think we had $3.00 on it, the only thing that it needed was a battery, if this man bought it he would still come out ahead because the watch was over $50.00, so of course he says I will give you .50 cents for it. I said no, sorry. My daughter also had a pack of playing cards with the White Sox logo on them, she put .30 cents on the sticker and this moron wanted to give her .10 cents for them, I told him that my daughter was not here and that she wants .30 cents (WTF! If you don’t have 30 cents then dont go to garage sales!!!) So this guy buys some stuff and goes next door to my neighbor who is also having a yard sale, I walk over there and ask how her sale is going and whisper to her not to go down on her prices for him, I think he saw me walk away because he came back to my garage picked up the box of cards and said again to me that he would give me 10 cents for them, again I say no, so it looked like he was going to put them back on the table and when he walks away the king goes and picks the box up, counts the cards and notices that the bastard took 2 cards from the deck!!  OMG!! I could not believe that my own people would stoop that low!! He was pissed that I wouldn’t sell them at “his” price so he figured if he couldn’t have them no one could

I swore I would never have another yard sale again, period! Well last year my son wanted a new bike, now there was nothing wrong with the bike his father gave him except that when he gave it to him it had a torn seat, he promised the kid he would get  him a new seat but never did, and although there are Mexicans that live in our area, we are still out beat by the white folk, no big deal to me or my kids except when my sons friends were making fun of him because he was riding a “low rider” bike, so he decided he was going to buy a new one, so he had asked if he could have a garage sale. I said sure after he begged me for weeks, then kept after me to go around the house to find things he could sell. So here I am the day of his sale, sitting out there with him, this time it was a better sale, even though there were people that wanted to pay less for things, but I got wiser and priced it a little high so when I came down in price it was exactly what I wanted for the stuff. He did ok, he made a little over $100.00 and was able to get a new bike.  Still I didn’t want to go through this again, but once again here I am, a year later with tons of stuff to get rid of. Sure I could just ship it off to  AMVETS (like the King had suggested) but with me not working, every penny I get will help with bills. Of course my son wants his cut of the proceeds, lol. he doesn’t have much to sell this time but he is still trying to sell his low rider bike (In Chicago he would probably be shot to get that bike) so we’ll see if he will be able to get rid of it tomorrow. The sale is for 2 days, as long as it doesn’t rain. I just finished pricing some more things, and decided to write about it. I sure hope I don’t have to go postal on some of these people, I mean come on if you really want the item you should pay the price the person is asking for.  I have never ever asked a person to come down in price, sure there are things that I felt could have been priced cheaper when I go to sales but if I really want it then I will pay the amount on the tag.  Wish me luck! I know I am going to need it, that and a couple of Margaritas!! lol, I’ll keep all of you posted.