Comments | vecturist: Not too bad for a morning's work and economic indicators

vecturist

Not too bad for a morning's work and economic indicators

Mar 21, 2009 21:25

Garage sale this morning, which unfortunately, began way too early - like 7AM. Which meant setting up around 6:15 because the hard-core budget hunters are usually out early. This year they weren't. Sold maybe a third of my stuff and the things my parents contributed. Not many people came by, there was some bad haggling (offering $1 for ( Read more... )

money, house

Comments 4

mercury973 March 22 2009, 05:19:22 UTC

Maybe she thought you were a stripper?

vecturist March 22 2009, 14:37:30 UTC

If she did, she must have thinking what a kind of place did I work at given how battered the bills were. I did tell her it was from a garage sale, and when she was having trouble correctly totaling up the bills, I told her I used to be a bartender (which is true, and one of the places I used to work was pretty questionable).

pavaneofstars March 23 2009, 16:44:00 UTC

Glad the garage sale was worth the early start!

vecturist March 23 2009, 16:56:41 UTC

I figure it all worked out to about $20 an hour. The downside is that the money is effectively spent (although the cash is in my con fund jar) - found out yesterday I need to replace a toilet in my master bath. There's a small crack in the bowl and it's dripping. My dad and I will head to the habitat for humanity store tomorrow to pick up a new one (they have new/like new toilets and building/ house supplies people and builders have donated and it will cost about $50 for a new toilet, plus $20-40 for a wax ring and hose). It's not a total loss - the toilet was in bad shape and I had planned on buying a new seat and hose for it.