Yard Sale Boy

As we would say in my family, This Boy is a Heinemann! He's got the YARD SALE genes... though in his case it is much less about going to yard sales and getting bargains (that would be my family), but about SELLING and MAKING MONEY (that would be Chris's family!).
So here he is, sitting at his first ever "yard sale" - a small table of his no longer wanted toys, sitting at the end of our driveway with Dad, late afternoon, and too shy to say anything to anyone. Amazingly, he made quite a few sales, and came home shining.

Needless to say, we've had to have more and more sales since then. A few weeks after the first sale, it became about making more money, so we had to add lemonade to the works:

And then, it kept going. People on Bowen are entirely too generous - his 50 cent lemonade was often paid for with loonies or toonies (one or two dollars), and once even a five dollar bill (no, no, keep the change as a tip!). Very generous, though not great on the "Learning Important Life Skills" scale.
Anyway, it all culminated this last weekend when we bought a table at the community yard sale at the local Sun Market. Last sale of the summer. We loaded up all that we could from our own house (everything that we don't want to store or ship)and sat in the rain with about twenty other tables to sell. It was hardly a raging success, but we did sell quite a few things, and in the drippy, chilly rain, Sterling was finally able to say that he was ready to stop selling. Until next season!