Comments on: UPDATE

By: mickey

mickey — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:08:27 +0000

Yard sailing! I had a different image in my head before I read on, but I really like the term anyway. Now I just need a big, flat yard and a sewing machine…

By: erikka

erikka — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:34:37 +0000

wait, you made either $100 or $200 from a yardsale!?! go you! the most I’ve ever made was like, $25. you must have had a lot of stuff to sell or it went at good prices.

either way – you win.

By: Lara

Lara — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:21:58 +0000

OH my god, I am giggling over the guy buying the tapes! And the “shady eight-tape deal”! You’re hilarious. And inspiring! I am going to have to start planning a yard sale, STAT!

By: alexa

alexa — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:41:25 +0000

noelle you did awesome!!!

i’m impressed. you are making me want to make some extra cash.

and anything with a citrus drizzle just sounds fabulous

The best is the stuff I sold that I didn’t pay for in the first place.

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:30:39 +0000

You sold an air conditioner for $10? How are YOU going to stay cool now??

My mom insisted on pricing this terribly out-of-style and out-of-date bedspread at my grandma’s house at $40. She insists someone will pay that price because a new one would be $80. (She printed a page from the JC Penney catalog to prove it to us.) I can’t wait to see what happens there when they have the sale.

I can’t use air conditioning in the cottage for various reasons. (It’s actually not that bad.) And yeah, no one is paying $40 for a comforter. My neighbor sold one, along with 4 curtains and a set of sheets for $15.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:53:17 +0000

I love how everyone comes up with a story to justify the discount!

Yeah, very few people are willing to admit that they’re just cheap.

By: courtney

courtney — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:06:58 +0000

Not bad! I may have to make those cookies. They sound good.

They are a huge hit, good for holidays, too.

By: Pants

Pants — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:39:32 +0000

When I see awesome cassette tapes at garage sales and thrift stores I wish I had something to play them on. Perhaps I should start looking for an old school boom box?

Your cookie and brownie recipe look super yummy!

I still have tape players in my stereo, but I never think to use them.

By: lizgwiz

lizgwiz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:27:59 +0000

Ah yes, the power of a good cookie. Maybe you should have given a bonus cassette tape with each dozen cookies.

I could have! I wonder if it would have helped move the brownies.

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:47:07 +0000

No one wanted an autographed Shari Lewis? How far they fall, huh?

Congrats on the entrepreneurship with the cookies!

Yeah, but maybe it’s worth more on the internet…