Selling Things in Asia

We are blessed that we have someone in this city that manages a classifieds list that goes out at the end of every week. Many of us have learned to e-mail or call almost immediately (depending when the classifieds came out) or what you were wanting may be gone! I guess the best thing I bought were our baby gates (they are super expensive here new due to import tax). We decided since we had quite a few things to sell, we set up a sale blog to post pictures and information and put the site address in our ad last week. We sold a good portion of our stuff immediately and then this week we sold most of the stuff that was left.

I think this is the only thing we haven't sold (as long as the lady who bought our larger stroller contacts us again!). I still like it and it looks like we have room for it, so it'll probably be coming with us. I guess it was meant to stay with us. (Keely used to say the lamp was scary but she has given her stamp of approval of keeping it)

Saturday was a garage sale that the International School sponsered. The divide the area into spots and you purchase one and that's your area to sell from. They do two a year and this is the third time for us to do the spring one. My wonderful husband has done it for us every year with help from my dad the first year and help from a great friend the other two (with one car and little ones it's hard for both of us to go but Jacob tells me this is a rowdy bunch and you NEED two people). We did well and he came home with only about a box and a half or so left (we had about 6 boxes plus some freebie comforters and pillows we got with mattress purchases). It was easy to weed through what didn't sell and decide where everything would go. So, now I have those boxes and bags sitting in the dining room to be distributed!

Some of the stuff we sold, was to a family who is not here yet. So, it's actually perfect so we don't have to hurry and clean those things out yet! The family that bought the crib and bedding (Jordan has decided to boycott the crib - never slept in one until 7 months old and decided she liked the pack n play better - I didn't have the energy to train her to like it and force the issue) didn't have a way to pick it up. Being the nice people we are, we delivered it to them. We met a lot of people in our stage of life through selling stuff-- too bad we can't stay and get to know them better!! Below are pictures of the girls helping Jacob take the crib apart.