Today being market day..

Yep, we were back at the market today and running very late. We got there about 10 mins before it opened and it takes us almost an hour to set up, certainly half an hour to get the bulk of the stuff out. Which meant we had people trying to look as we were sorting out what went where. A good sign.

We also had a good location -- on the outer ring, on a corner i.e. people walking past two side & we were noticable. Very noticable. Never had so many people stop & look & mostly buy plus our repeat customers. We were even busy at some points -- two or three people buying at once! And I sold something of *every*thing. The pennies were popular again, after having sold none last week. I don't know what it is about them. A penny is an actual one penny. Pre-decimal coins, big, brown things (similar to the British ones for some odd reason :) minted from 1911 to 1964. I put them in a big bowl with "50c each" or "3 for $1" on it and almost everyone has to stop and poke in it. Some are no doubt hoping they'll find a valuable one, like the 1930 penny that sells for $15,000 on Ebay or the 1937 one that sells for "a lot" (because there were none officially released). Most though, are looking for their, or a relative's, birth year. Whatever the reason, I sold close to 20 today.

And then there was the boy who was determined to spend all his money on my coins. He finally got down to 70c and all he could get was two commerative 20c coins that I had put out for 30c each, so he took them. Then he tried to give me his remaining 10c. I did manage to persuade him to keep it.

Moneywise, we both took in more than any other week. As Nicquel said, if it was like this every week, it'd actually be worthwhile, rather than something we do because it's what we do (and we can use it to justify buying things on ****). We might even start to make a profit at this rate.