Starting with the end of Summer

Obviously, I haven't been up to date with blogger over the last 6 months. I vowed to keep current over the long lazy summer days. Well, they didn't turn out to be so lazy. With my fear of being bored, came the tendency to over-schedule. Now that things have slowed down a bit, I am going to blog backwards and catch up with all the summer news. I will start with the events of yesterday. It began, a few weeks ago, when we found a flier on our doorstep announcing our neighborhood yard sale. Since moving, we have assembled a pile of junk, which needs to be removed from our garage. We would like to be able to park at least one car indoors during the coming winter months. Rather than paying the dump to take our stuff, we decided to see if anyone would pay us to have it. I told the kids, that they could have the money if they helped gather the stuff, set up the tables, label the items with prices and help with the money exchange. They agreed and we decided to try to make this a fun Saturday experience. On a whim, I made a double batch of chocolate chip cookies. This proved to be the best selling item at our address. After a couple of hours, I returned to the kitchen to make another double batch. Word had spread around the neighborhood and customers came to buy cookies. Some of them removed a few "space fillers" from our garage, but we didn't get rid of most of the stuff. Although, we made $81 dollars in profit (most of it from a queen-sized bed.) It turned out to be a decent lesson in math and working for your money.