by Katie
This past weekend, on Cinco de Mayo, Scott and I did Trader's Village in Grand Prairie. A giant flea market, Trader's Village is a place for people to sell basically anything. There are a lot of farmers with produce, florists, garage sales, random clothing and jewelry, basically anything you can think of. According to the people around us, people make good money if they know what to bring to sell and how to price it. Sadly, for us, Trader's Village was a complete bust!!
We got there at 7 in the morning to get set up and stayed till 4. It sprinkled most of the day; although, that didn't keep people from coming. They just didn't want candles. In that time, we sold 16 out of the 54 candles that we still needed to sell and we sold them at a huge loss. After this past weekend, I had to come to the realization that I just wasn't going to be able to break even in this business and I have now simply become a statistic. Ah well, it has been a learning experience and I enjoyed making the candles.
After that long day, we met Melanie, her new boyfriend Seth, and Stephanie in Dallas to celebrate Mel's 21st birthday (she is a Cinco de Mayo baby). Since our day had been so long, we left Mel and Seth to continue the night and went home to bed!
We had dinner with my family Sunday to celebrate Mel's birthday with the folks. Seth got to meet Mom and Dad for the first time; I think it went well.
I got the go-ahead from Scott to do a massive packing when he realized just how close we are to leaving, two weeks from tomorrow and five days of that we will be in Washington. The movers come on Friday to move most of our stuff to my parents who are letting us use their drive way for a garage sale and then the rest of the stuff to the storage unit in Duncanville. We are going to try to sell all of our furniture (except the hutch) and will therefore be sleeping on an air mattress and eating off TV trays for the remaining time. I hope that the garage sale on Saturday and Sunday goes much better than Trader's Village last weekend but whatever we don't sell is going to Salvation Army on Monday.
This past weekend, on Cinco de Mayo, Scott and I did Trader's Village in Grand Prairie. A giant flea market, Trader's Village is a place for people to sell basically anything. There are a lot of farmers with produce, florists, garage sales, random clothing and jewelry, basically anything you can think of. According to the people around us, people make good money if they know what to bring to sell and how to price it. Sadly, for us, Trader's Village was a complete bust!!
We got there at 7 in the morning to get set up and stayed till 4. It sprinkled most of the day; although, that didn't keep people from coming. They just didn't want candles. In that time, we sold 16 out of the 54 candles that we still needed to sell and we sold them at a huge loss. After this past weekend, I had to come to the realization that I just wasn't going to be able to break even in this business and I have now simply become a statistic. Ah well, it has been a learning experience and I enjoyed making the candles.
After that long day, we met Melanie, her new boyfriend Seth, and Stephanie in Dallas to celebrate Mel's 21st birthday (she is a Cinco de Mayo baby). Since our day had been so long, we left Mel and Seth to continue the night and went home to bed!
We had dinner with my family Sunday to celebrate Mel's birthday with the folks. Seth got to meet Mom and Dad for the first time; I think it went well.
I got the go-ahead from Scott to do a massive packing when he realized just how close we are to leaving, two weeks from tomorrow and five days of that we will be in Washington. The movers come on Friday to move most of our stuff to my parents who are letting us use their drive way for a garage sale and then the rest of the stuff to the storage unit in Duncanville. We are going to try to sell all of our furniture (except the hutch) and will therefore be sleeping on an air mattress and eating off TV trays for the remaining time. I hope that the garage sale on Saturday and Sunday goes much better than Trader's Village last weekend but whatever we don't sell is going to Salvation Army on Monday.
