yardsale

It was a scorcher today and I have what feels like 1^st degree burns on my neck and face.

Yunuen and I spent the day in the hot sun selling the clutter from our house at Nick and Betsy’s neighborhood yard sale. Nick and I both had a 10×10 spot next to each other. We sold a lot of junk from our garage which included a number of tools for the yard. I no longer have aspirations to attempt to grow grass here in the desert and so I sold most of that stuff. I still have the brand new $70 valve timer I bought at Lowes which I am going to try to sell on craigslist along with the lawn mower I was unable to sell.

We had an oven which came with our new house that I had desperately wanted to sell. About an hour into the day I agreed to an offer of $25, which I somewhat reluctantly agreed to given the initial sticker price of $50. It was a fairly nice oven and I think $50 would have been a good deal. About an hour later, the man returned to say his wife didn’t want a white oven and asked if I would refund his money (which I did). I should have charged a restocking fee. We did up eventually selling the thing right before our departure, but for only $15! I was pretty happy I didn’t have to load it back up and take it home though.

Yunuen and I are currently driving down to Mexico for the weekend. I’m using a recently purchased Asus netbook which I bought to replace my old laptop. I really like it a lot, particularly the extended battery life (11.5 hours).