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Old 08-20-2006, 03:16 PM
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We had our adoption garage sale this weekend!!

And it went GREAT. I sold EVERYTHING I had except for literally about 4 toys. People were so nice and asked very polite questions. It was so fun and we made $500!!!! I didn't think we had $500 worth of stuff but I guess we did! What a help this will be. Just had to share. The picture is of the poster I made that we hung at the sale.
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Old 08-20-2006, 03:19 PM
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Oh that is too cool, I love your sign!!!
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Old 08-20-2006, 03:21 PM
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That's awesome! Congratulations!
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Old 08-20-2006, 03:26 PM
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Congrats Hon!
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Old 08-20-2006, 03:27 PM
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That's great!
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Old 08-20-2006, 04:49 PM
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That's awesome! Great job - and good sign, cuts down on the haggling.
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Old 08-20-2006, 04:58 PM
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Yeah! I'm so happy for you!!
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Old 08-20-2006, 05:35 PM
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That is awsome! I'm glad you made a bunch of money! Great job on your sign.
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Old 08-20-2006, 05:37 PM
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Mindy HOW EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so glad it went well and the sign is a FANTASTIC IDEA! Who wouldn't want to help bring home that gorgeous baby?
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Old 08-20-2006, 06:49 PM
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YEAH Mindy! Congrats on a successful garage sale. And I love your poster
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Old 08-20-2006, 08:07 PM
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Congrats
Garage Sales are great (but alot of work)! We did one for Kassandra's adoption and are going to squeeze in one in September for Samantha's. We made over $1400 on Kassandra's.
I love your poster! We put up picture's of Kassandra, but I am going to hijack your poster idea!
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Old 08-20-2006, 08:28 PM
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Glad it went well. The poster is SO sweet!

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Old 08-20-2006, 08:36 PM
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What a great fundraising idea! Glad it was a success!
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Old 08-21-2006, 02:50 AM
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Poster

We are doing a lasagna dinner fund raiser Sept. 23 and we are doing posters. Since we do not have a referral yet we had decided to do a poster with information about Guatemala, one with information about the Guatemala adoption process, and one with questions and answers. We thought we could use the dinner as a fund raiser and educator at one time !
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Old 08-21-2006, 03:57 AM
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That's wonderful! What a great sign!
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