I haggled my way to hell
I (24 F) my husband (27 m) and my brother in law ( 30 m) went to the US 40 yard sale. if you don’t know what that is, it’s a highway that stretches coast to coast with yard sales lining the street. i love yard sales and thrifting so i dragged them to go with me just to have some company and i genuinely enjoy hanging out with them. for some back ground, there is an on going joke in the family that i am the best at bartering to get things lower in price. in reality, im not that good, but i just like to keep up the image because my grandpa was. i usually just ask for $5-10 lower than the asking price and tell people that i talked them into lowering the price.
so anyway, we drive up to the first yard sale on the highway. it didnt have a lot of stuff, but since it was the first stop i was excited to get out. we got out and i found a cute pink knitted blanket and a golden candle stuffer. they were cute but they were pretty pricy. it was $3 for the snuffer and $6 for the blanket. just not garage sale prices. they also had a lemonade stand and a bunch of signs with writing on them that i just didn’t read because it usually says “garage sale” on it so i just skipped it. i walked up to the lady selling the stuff and said
“would you do $5 for both?“
the lady gave me a puzzled look like i was an asshole and said
“i’ll do $8.”
i smiled and said “okay thanks!” paid her cash, got my bag of stuff and started to walk up to my husband. i turned to him and said ”man their prices were pretty steep for a garage sale.”
he looked at me confused and said “what do you mean?”
i said “well it was $8 for just this small blanket and this candle snuffer. it was originally $8 but she at least took $1 off.”
“babe. that’s a sale for their child with cancer.” he said.
i literally wanted to call the whole day off melt into the grass with embarrassment. #fml