One summer when I was about 11, my grandma told me and some of the other grandchildren that we could have a garage sale. We spent all day Friday gathering things and pricing them. My grandma made a lot of angel food cakes to sell to our customers. There were five grandchildren there…Tige, Travis, and I can’t remember who else.
We got up early on Saturday to put out all of our wares. We waited and waited and we got very few customers. Apparently garage sales aren’t very popular in Bel Air. I do remember the mail carrier coming by and she bought most of the fabric and some cake.
We were feeling a little discouraged because dividing up our measly sales wasn’t going to give us much money. Grandma was trying to think of a way to make more money so she told us we could sell her car as part of the garage sale. It was a little red, hatchback.
We sold the car to the gardener and we made a lot of money.
Amy Stratford Barker
Sally Stratford 