Jumble Sale

Time flies.
It has been almost a week since we organised the Jumble Sale at Plaza Damas on the 27th of May 2007. It is a success, considering the crowd on that day (which was not much in comparison with the other weekend flea markets). We earned a total amount of RM526.60. Prior to the event day, 4 days before, I sent out an e-mail to the RIKL Yahoo! Group, as well as to friends and family to gather more items. Here's the exact e-mail that was sent and posted in my Facebook account : Jumble Sale @ Plaza Damas (27th of May, Sunday)

With very short notice, and minimal collection of items, we still went on with the Jumble Sale. Since the booth was free for the day, I figured I have nothing to lose other than 1 day of my life. Yes, just like what CK wrote in his blog, "Do you believe that selling junks can earn money? But Kar Lye and me did. : ) We just decided to organise a Jumble Sale and started to collect junks a few days before. And we have achieved a quite well sale result in a quiet flea market. =p It was so amazing!" ;which I did-not believe initially that we can make money, but heck, nothing to lose anyway, everything to gain. And, yesss we DID gain indeed RM 263.30 each.
Here's a brief of the day's happening... It started off really early for us, setting up the stall at 8ish , and what with our super last minute act; that is to price our items in the morning of the event itself!













The day started off really slow. Not many people walking around; the mall itself is quite, what more the flea market area... A very slow start for the day, but business did pick up slightly after lunch time.



It was not that busy the whole time, but thanks to many day-helpers: CK (my money-making partner for the month!), Joanne, Pooi San, Lilli, Xin Tong, Adrian, Amy, 秋燕, , Siaw Ling, Siaw Chian, Shih Chung, Shirleen, Wei Ming, Ken Ken, 子洋, 宇杰, 伟盛, 伟鸿, Zhi Yong ; especially many of them who tirelessly, shouted to attract customers to our stall, went around the area selling bags (just like those Petaling Street fellows that strapped themselves with all different kind of bags... :P)


At almost 3 o'clock, the dark clouds were gathering and we knew the rain will come, sooner OR later. We have decided to sell everything on the floor at one-low-flat-rate, RM 1 for every item on the floor. Business started to pick up again as our "junks" were actually going quite fast.


Soon enough, it rained. We had to pack up, and clear the stuffs to the covered area. Surprisingly, there is still a crowd roaming around the flea market area, and without wasting any opportunity- we continued trading.


Trading, trading... trading...
Finally, at close to 6pm, we have decided to pack up for real, as the whole area was really wet and messy. At that time, many stalls have already closed, and business really slows down to an occasional customer in every 15 minutes.


Special thanks to people who have donated items for the Jumble Sale, namely
(just people that I know off..); Aunty Sharon , Michelle Lee, Aunty Shanna (plants), CK's dad(for those RM1 for 3 gel pens)...
ps: forgot to add in Aunty Rokiah (aka Sara Yasmin's ibu)


Long post, I know, lemme end it with:

Trivia of the day: Somehow we lost the Raleigh International white cloth which cost approx RM300+ if we were to replace it. It was nowhere to be found, we looked through the stuffs we had; we KNEW then we must have accidentally put it together with the thrash and sent for disposal. (ARGHH...!!;at that time laaa...). So we rushed back to the big rubbish disposal area and look inside the big huge tong/bin to look for the cloth... Thank GOD, we found it or else, 60% of our profit of the day will go to the replacement of RI cloth!! :)

Alrighty, that's all for now...
Again, thanks to all who have contributed their time and items!!

Kar Lye