I am excited to share with you the results from our first ever Debt Reduction Garage Sale (a.k.a. Kill That Debt Garage Sale) which we co-hosted with Adam and Adriane. Our results were quite unexpected. Mandy and I thought we would raise about half the money that we actually did. Needless to say but our two day garage sale was definitely worth all of the time we spent preparing for it.
Mandy and I raised $733.64, only $46.36 shy of the $780 we need to pay off our last credit card. Adam and Adriane raised $760.32 which will make a nice dent in their student loans. In all, counting both days of the garage sale and both families we raised a grand total of $1,493.96. We raised almost $1,500 in only two days. How awesome is that? Extremely!
Not only did we raise a lot of money to pay some of our debts, but we decluttered our houses a bit. Before the sale, Mandy’s and my closets were cram packed, the office was like an obstacle course, and we just felt like we had too much stuff with no storage space. I don’t really know how to explain it but selling all of this stuff is a ‘freeing’ experience. And I realize it’s two-fold, free from stuff and a little more free of debt.
Kill that debt, baby! It feels so good!
Results from our Debt Reduction Garage Sale
We ended up selling the dog kennel that didn’t sell during our Weekend KTD Garage Sale so we added another $125 to our total. Working on killing that student loan debt!