GARAGE SALE (final weekend)!!! 7/8 & 8/8

GARAGE SALE (final weekend)!!!

7/8 (SAT) and 8/8 (SUN) 10am to 4pm
(address has been removed after Garage Sale)

Our Garage Sale over the weekend of 31/7 & 1/8 went really well! I'd published an ad in the papers, posted it on this blog and yes, spammed (guilty!) my neighbourhood mailboxes with small home made flyers! Well, from the feedback gathered from our visitors, the flyers were the most effective. Flyers.....hmmm.....it's also how one is fed info that some topnotch real estate agent managed to sell your neighbour's house at an unbelievable skyhigh price or how your neighbourhood tuition agency can guarantee your kid's success!
But since HDB apartments owners have the option to lock their mailboxes from the inside to prevent unwanted mail from reaching them, my poor husband suffered painful knuckles from shoving them into locked letterboxes. Too bad for those home owners, they lost out on some really good deals and good fun!

We prayed that God would bless us with good weather and send the people and He did! We cleared so much furniture on Saturday and made some new friends with our neighbours from our neighbourhood. Really, it's interesting that we also experienced this when we had a Garage Sale in Seletar Camp some years back. We met so many nice people and made some new friends only when it was time to say goodbye! Pity!

After the brisk sales on Saturday, we had expected Sunday to be quieter. But God proved us wrong! When Mike and I woke up at 6am on Sunday to attend 7am Mass, it was pouring! No, we don't usually attend 7am Mass but really, if we'd left attending Mass to the evening, something might've crop up at the Garage Sale or we'd be too tired to attend it, so I suggested going for 7am Mass. (As a sidenote, do you see, how weak I am? I wasn't motivated to say, attend 7am because God should be the topmost priority, early in the morning on a Sunday instead, I suggest 7am Mass to be on the safe side so we wouldn't miss Mass!).

I reminded Mike, that the 'formula' was so simple....instead of worrying if anyone would turn up, our first focus should be on God and the success of the Garage Sale would follow. It was such an epiphany for me even as I said that to Mike. Life's formula was so simple and was right in front of everyone's eyes but it was the hardest thing for anyone to see or follow.

I was dying to receive Holy Communion and I was feeling so excited on Saturday night just before I fell asleep! How strange for me (not because it's a strange thing for anyone else but it is for me)! I just felt a joy in my heart that I'd be receiving Christ's Body in a few hours! I had a feeling that it would rain on Sunday. But I told God it'd be OK cos we really made some good moolah already on Saturday...hee hee.

When we woke up to thunder and heavy rain on Sunday, it would have been so much easier to just snuggle under the covers than to pull our acheing bodies (after the previous day's physical moving of furniture and stuff!) up for church. But I reminded myself that this was exactly what the evil one wanted me to think and feel and so dragged myself up. Felt really ashamed when I turned up to find so many others at 7am who probably didn't even think twice about turning up despite the downpour. It turned out to be such a beautiful Mass and I was all choked up with every song they sang. Just moved me and I was so emotional. Felt all charged up and ready for a second day of sales!

When it rained on Sunday, I didn't panic. Just concentrated on God and His ability to do anything....and He did! He sent the first customers at 9am! In fact, they had turned up an hour earlier, mistaking the start of the Garage Sale to be 8 instead of 9am! We thought we'd made brisk sales at our previous Garage Sale at Seletar Camp but these two days turned out to be even more successful! In fact, even after we'd helped my mum clear her place (for a week of normalcy before next weekend's chaos again), some people turned up that evening after we'd closed her door!

So, as I mentioned in my previous post, we're still having our GARAGE SALE this coming weekend and for every day of the sale, we try to put up other 'new' stuff.

GARAGE SALE (final weekend)!!!
7/8 (SAT) and 8/8 (SUN) 10am to 4pm
(Address has been removed afte Garage Sale).