Yard Sale & Bake Sale

This past week was consumed by my last minute decision to participate in the annual Beverly Crest yard sale, in addition to co-hosting a bake sale with Mandy, the proceeds of which went to her Moms In Training fundraising endeavors for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

I realized that I do not do this on a regular basis because it is SO MUCH WORK!!

In addition to getting things together for the yard sale, cleaning and pricing them, I had to -- with Mandy's help -- bake 3 batches of brownies, 2 batches of pistachio lemon squares and 2 batches of chocolate chip cookies.

Both the yard sale and bake sale were a huge success, with buyers showing up at 6:30am even though the yard sale did not start until 8! By 7am I had already made over $100 and was frantically texting Mandy to come get the bake sale going, as people had already started donating to it even though there were as yet no baked goods out.

We ended up raising over $140 for LLS and over $700 from the yard sale, the proceeds of which are going to fund my birthday tattoo, which I'm getting on Wednesday ;-) Everything we didn't sell was picked up by the National Kidney Foundation, so it was a win all around!

Here is the bake sale in full swing, Amelia with the first money donated to the bake sale before  it was even set up, the delicious treats we had for sale, and Amelia and Rebecca sampling the bake sale lemonade: