From The Past: September 4, 2004

Labor Day weekend is a big deal here in Winchester because of the Daniel Boone Pioneer Festival. Everyone who lives near the festival has yard sales. Since my parents live near the festivities, we usually have a big yard sale ourselves.

We worked for about a week getting things together and priced. This morning Kevin and I arrived at mom and dad’s house at 7:30 and began setting up.

Here is a view of some, but not all, of the tables.

This view shows some of the clothes we had plus some boxes of toys. This year there were a lot of toys because my sister’s kids are getting bigger so she wanted to sell off their baby toys.

There were several other tables of movies, books, and magazines plus there were big things sitting in the grass. We did very well as far as money goes. I think it really helped that there was no rain. We got back home at 5:30 and I am now ready to relax! I hope that everyone is having a great weekend!

Currently (2020): I am almost certain this is the first year that the Daniel Boone Pioneer Festival has been cancelled. Even though it is cancelled, there will still be many, many yard sales. Over a month ago, when I was doing my yearly purge, I decided to donate everything because I didn’t think we would be allowed to have yard sales. I don’t regret giving anything away though. Kevin absolutely hates having yard sales because there is so much work involved. To me, it has always been worth the $300 – $500 that we make, but it’s not worth it to Kevin. I don’t know if/when we will have one again. I did put the larger priced items that I wanted money for on our local Facebook trading post. That worked out much better than I thought and we were able to get great prices that we would have never saw at a yard sale.

There are things that I wanted to point out in the above photos.

They were taken in the house where we currently live because when my mom died, my dad wanted a house on one level, so he sold the house to us. The driveway only had space for one car to pull in. We had an additional driveway laid once we moved in. You can see it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro0IIn6CLbc

The walkway was stone that my dad laid, but he later changed to brick when he changed the driveway. It went from plain concrete to a brick texture and that’s why Kevin and I added on the brick texture. There were some patches of grass on that side of the yard, but they were covered by the larger driveway when we moved in.

And lastly, if you have watched my vlogs long enough on my Tami Dunn YouTube channel, you will have noticed that the house next door is no longer brick. A few years ago, it was painted a light grey color, which is a big improvement, in my opinion. There’s pretty brick and ugly brick. That house was an ugly brick.

However you are spending your Labor Day weekend, I hope it’s a good one!