This was a good weekend! I want to thank everyone who took the time to come out and show support. I did extremely well with garage sale transactions, although there were instances I had to give a little to make a little. The weather was wonderful; I couldn’t have asked for better. The sun and the people were up and ready to go very early. I was amazed at the number of folks who are up and at ‘em before the butt crack of dawn!! Jeeze.
We sold everything from camping gear to electronics to linen and pillows. It was interesting and sad to see the lack of interest in our book selection, however. We have a little over 100 books which I thought would sell. Harry Potter (original hard covers), Silverstein, Toni Morrison, every biography ever written and tons and tons of how-to and self-help books… everything except cook books, of course! But I guess no one wants paper books anymore; humpf! Kindle is King – it’s all about eBooks. Sigh. The big ticket items are going to have to go on eBay or Amazon, because apparently there is an unspoken rule that no one pays more than $25 per item at a garage sale! No one told me. Oh well.
In any event, I have earned enough for most of my fees for the Banana Festival, and I am really getting excited. Next steps will be getting my Fictitious Name license, Health Permit, Biz License and Seller’s Permit... whew! The health permits seems to require the most work. I have to show my SafeServ Certificate (where in the heck did I file that thing???), list my proposed menu items and give a little detail of each, find a commercial kitchen and list that information (more money… eeeck!)… will it ever end??? I live in Elk Grove so I have to get some operational documents from Elk Grove (City). It doesn’t stop there… nooooooo – Sacramento (County) wants a piece of me too, so some licenses and permits have to come from them. And none of these offices are in close proximity to the other. I have just about covered every inch of Sacramento County and used up nearly 1/2 tank of gas. Oh, and please don’t forget – the Franchise Tax Board wants to be looped in. All roads lead back to FTB.
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