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All the ideas in the magazine were corny and old-fashioned, though. There was one section on how to create a sign to get people to come to your yard sale, and all the examples they showed were really BORING. I knew that if I wanted people to actually show up at my yard sale I needed to do something a little more EYE-CATCHING. So I whipped up a sign I knew would do the trick.

不过杂志里的所有点子都老掉牙、过时得很。 里面有一块内容讲怎么制作广告牌吸引大家来逛庭院旧货摊，可他们举的例子全都无聊透顶。 我知道要是真的想有人来我的旧货摊，我得做个更吸人眼球的东西。 于是我很快做了一块我觉得肯定管用的广告牌。

I made a few copies of my sign and headed out to post them around the neighbourhood. But Mom stopped me before I got out of the front door.

我复印了好几张广告牌，出门准备贴到社区各处。 可我还没迈出前门，就被妈妈拦住了。

Mom made me make signs that were more like the ones in the magazine, and after I was finished, I stapled them to some telephone poles on our street. Then I hauled everything down from my bedroom and started setting it all out on some plastic tables. Each table had its own category, like "clothes" and "books" and that kind of thing. But some stuff wasn't easy to categorize, so I had to get creative. I had a bunch of gifts from my grandparents and older relatives that I've never even TOUCHED, so I put all those things together on one table.

妈妈逼我做了和杂志里款式差不多的广告牌，做完之后，我把它们钉在了我们街上的电线杆上。 接着我把所有东西都从卧室搬出来，摆到了几张塑料桌子上。 每桌都分好了类别，比如“衣服”、“书”诸如此类。 但有些东西不好分类，所以我得发挥创意。 我有一大堆爷爷奶奶和长辈送我的礼物，我连碰都没碰过，所以我把这些东西都归到了同一张桌子上。

I also had a bunch of birthday cards that were still in pretty good shape. So I used some Tippex to cover up my name and set them out on their own table. I put all my broken toys on another table and hoped some little kids who couldn't READ would come to the yard sale.

我还有一大堆保存得挺不错的生日贺卡。 所以我用修正液涂掉了我的名字，把它们单独放在一张桌子上卖。 我把坏掉的玩具放到另一张桌子，盼着会有不认字的小朋友来逛我的旧货摊。

I stuffed all my random items, like marbles and a few pencil stubs, into some socks and pinned them to a table. I also created a table full of things for people who had money to burn.

我把弹珠、几截铅笔头这类杂七杂八的小东西都塞进袜子，固定在桌子上。 我还专门摆了一张桌子，放东西卖给那些不差钱的人。

I put all my old arts-and-crafts projects on their own table, just in case some kids needed a gift for their parents but didn't want to put in the TIME. While I was finishing up, Mom came outside to check out my yard sale, and she seemed pretty IMPRESSED. But she said I should hold on to the things I'd made myself, since that stuff is really SPECIAL. I told Mom that if she wanted something, she could always buy it HERSELF. So she offered me three dollars for that paper flower I'd made for her in pre-school.

我把以前做的手工都单独放在一张桌子，专门给那些想给爸妈买礼物、又不想花时间自己做的小孩准备。 我收拾完的时候，妈妈出来看我的旧货摊，她看起来挺惊讶的。 但她让我留着自己做的东西，因为这些真的很特别。 我跟妈妈说，要是她想要，完全可以自己掏钱买。 于是她出价三美元，想买我学前班给她做的那朵纸花。