Here is the ad that ran in the Wichita Eagle:

N. Riverside...1527 W. 20th Fri/Sat only! Maternity, infant boys, clothes, toys, CD's, books, small appls, electronics, curtains

What is wrong with that ad? We think we will send it to Jay Leno's headlines to see if we can get on TV with it.

It's a lot of work hosting a garage sale. We combined "junk" with a couple other friends and Grandma Shaffer. We made $60 on Thursday night when we were just getting the stuff out on tables. I'm not sure we had planned this, but the sale happened to fall on payday for many customers, who came to the sale after cashing their paychecks. The weather was beautiful, maybe a tad windy, but not hot at all. We got rid of much of the stuff we have collected over the years, and ended up with $300 or so for our junk. Unfortunately many of our clientele was not a size 4 or 6 petite, which is what most of my clothes were. One lady even came up the driveway asking if we had "big mama" clothes. Doug took off Friday from work, and my friend, Kristen, came over to help us out. We met many interesting people, and learned that many of our Mexican American customers did not know the words, "broken" (as in some of Kristen's VCR's and CD players. We learned to use the words, "No Work."), and "sporadically" (as I had written on our 3-disc CD player - works sporadically. The man came back on Friday to tell us it didn't work - but he didn't bring the CD player back so we could refund his money.) We've all decided that we don't want to do this again for awhile, and we have sworn off buying any more junk.

We celebrated the end of the garage sale by going to the park. Even Ben enjoyed the slide and the swings. Sam loves to play follow the leader when we go to the park, especially when it involves yelling when you go down the red tunnel slide.