The girls have been waiting for this Annual Kid's Swap Meet for over a month since we submitted the application for a 8'x8' spot at the Thousand Oaks Community Center. Daddy has been busy organizing the girls old unwanted toys in the past week, everything was loaded on the van last night... We got up at 6:30 this morning, on our way to the Swap Meet, we grab some donuts, coffee and milk for breakfast. We were there at 7:45am and found most of the sellers are already conducting business! We started our sale at 8am, lots of early birds started buying our stuff even before we set up the table, there were a couple of ladies even wanted to buy our table! The sale was very good, most of our high ticket items were sold in the first hour of our business, the girls were very happy to offer discounts to multiple item buyers. We also took turns to visit other sellers' goodies and found some crazy deals out there. Mommy bought a ton of Christmas decoration items and the girls' clothes while daddy were hunting for DVDs, Nintendo DS and Gameboy Advance games for the girls. The girls also did some shopping and bought a gum ball machine, a big Lion King stuff animal (Nala), some necklaces & small decorative things... Before we close down the business, we donated approximately $50 worth of electronic toys to Erica & Vivian's pre-school teacher Mrs. Camarillo so the pre-school kids can play with them at their activity room. The girls made total of $209, we took out $10 Swap Meet application fee, $50 for the clothing, DVDs, various of video games and the toys we bought at the event, and the girls net profit was $75 per person, we let them keep the money. It was a wonderful experience for the girls and sure we'll be back next year!
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