The yard sale was from arising at 5;30 am until everything was put away at 6:30 pm. We were a group of seven vendors and an enthusiastic shopping crowd. You state ‘start at nine,’ they are browsing by 8:30. My motivation was to see to whom i was giving. That is the FUN part. To experience someone’s thrill at getting a set of hardly used king sheets [not cotton- micro fiber!] for $1.00 or a jacket that was as good as the day it was gifted 30 years ago, for a second dollar. Is she going to Ebay the purchases? Likely, but go for it. She knows where it came from, she has to do all the work and I had the pleasure of seeing her delight at finding such bargains. The ‘other’ best was the friends who could have what they wanted. Had they come to my house it would have been theirs for the taking. They have bits of me now to remember me by. The day was a sunny summer day, and as I was giving a friend an old market umbrella and stand, I was the only one in the shade and not ‘sun-kissed’ by day’s end We were a fun motley crew with the most diverse of treasures. What community spirit! At the end, we did not dump it all at the local second-hand shop where I volunteer, but one of our group took it all home to be used in another sale for the ‘park’ in a couple of weeks. The best ending ever.