Saturday, March 15, 2025
Time: 11:25 PM
Song: As Tears Go By
Artist: Nancy Sinatra
Mode of Consumption: Listening to the vinyl record “Boots” by Nancy Sinatra while hosting a garage sale.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/48mONU4lF8eP3mt4ndMdsd?si=1e4b0de349f541e5
It took me over an hour to haul some twenty-five crates of records from our basement to our garage on Thursday night. It was an unseasonable warm and calm night for March in Illinois.
We had decided to do a pop-up garage sale today with the vinyl records being my big contribution and hopefully the biggest draw. Unlike Thursday night, it’s a windy morning on the hill and about twenty degrees cooler.
We had a few cars when we opened at 8 AM with one couple buying nearly $40 of vinyl. After that initial rush was a long a lull of over an hour, and maybe I started to feel tears coming knowing I’d be carrying almost all those records back down to the basement later this afternoon.
About 10:30, we had a steady string of shoppers. I’ve sold a total of 21 records, eclipsing over $100 in profits. It’s not bad, but I am hoping to reach at least 50 records sold today. Not sure I am going to make it, as usually mornings are busier at garage sales. Who knows? It only takes one person to come in and bump the total up quite a bit.
This is the first of what will likely be a series of sales this season. Hopefully by the end I will have sold enough to buy more records. Hah.
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