The Final Week Before the Sale

This past weekend was the last weekend of garage sales to shop at because next weekend we will be holding our own garage sale in Bloomfield, NJ for all our remaining flips.  Mom and Dad picked up some good finds.  They picked up a couple of good old mirrors for only a dollar or two that we can definitely resell for more than that.  From our curbside neighbor down the road they picked up an electric stove and a folding table.  They came home and plugged the stove in and it works so we can make a few bucks on that and the table we can actually use at the sale or sell it if we don't need it.  

For $3 they found a small wood cabinet that they simply put in a few shelves to make it more functional.  

 Then they picked up two nice and sturdy bookcases.  Inspired by Lara Spencer on Good morning America, Mom painted them with the teal/blue that I had used for my bookcase and desk and used white accents.  On the show, Lara Spencer painted a wall with the teal/blue color and stenciled a white tree on and it looked great.  Mom stenciled some white bamboo on the sides and top.  

This evening, the woman that came last week for the bar cart came back and she was impressed with these.  She took the one bookcase for $45 as well as many other items.  She bought:
A bench (old and falling apart from our backyard that Dad took apart, trimmed down and reassembled)
A tall white corner shelf unit
The oriental style coffee table
The wood milk crate foot stool
The rustic door cabinet
The screen door towel rack
The washboard spice rack
The red shoe shine box

She was interested in so much more.  She wanted to bargain but she said she felt bad because she knew we put a lot of work into everything so she was paying close to full price for things.  She said we were definitely priced to sell because our priced were great but that's exactly what we are doing.  We know some of our things are worth more but we don't have the time or facility to sell them like she does.  She said to contact her after the sale if things are left over and we can bargain a little more then.