The beginning of the selling season started early this year our first day open was Nov 20th. It started out slow as it should who is going to buy there tree before Thanksgiving lol. I was wrong you would be surprised we were selling around 10 tree's a day before Thanksgiving, With family coming to town and who may not be in town for Christmas I guess the celebrate both.
It went into full swing on black Friday!!! People piled in the lot with smiles on their face ready to find their tree. At this point we were selling tree's so fast that our lot was bare, as soon as we would stand a tree someone would buy it. That whole weekend was like that by the end of Sunday our lot was so bare and we had no tree's in back stock, looks like we are going to need more tree's off to the warehouse in the a.m.
During the week days it was somewhat slow until about 6:30pm when people flood the lot. So we spent the morning/afternoon hours restocking the lot and getting ready for the rush that evening. We had the best crew we could have had all the other lots had trouble keeping people, our crew started the first day with us and went all the way to the end. One of our guys worked 245 hours the whole season total not once complained about it. We can only hope that if we are at this lot next year that we can get the same crew back.
The rest of December we were busy almost everyday at some point in the day. We did so well this year that every lot (14 of them) sold out of tree's by December 20th our lot was out of Tree's on December 18th WOO HOO......... Our last tree was was a 4 1/2 Grand and the guy who bought it said "I made his Grand Daughter happy since there were no other tree's in the city in our area left" That would be true, Wal-mart, H.E.B, Home Depot, and Lowes in our area ran out of tree's before us maybe there was a shortage of tree's this year.
Once our last tree was sold we did our happy dance it was a blast but now that it is over we are so ready to move on and journey to our next destination. We still have to tear down the tent, my cashier booth, and all the electrical,sign and clean up the lot. Since we have a few days there is no rush they are not picking up the tents until at least Saturday.
The lot was cleaned up by the 23rd it looks so different without everything in it looks like it is ready for a circus to come to town lol. Christmas day rolls around and we have a end of season party to go to. A lunch will be served we are doing a gift exchange and a recap of the season. Once the festivities are over we took a group picture said our goodbyes and headed back to our 5er. We spent the rest of Christmas day putting a new floor in and boy does it look awesome not completely finished but I will post pictures once complete if my camera will work :-(
Even tho all the stuff is gone the tent will be picked up soon along with the dumpster,potties and fence we are still sitting here after we have been done for almost 10 days. I have to say this is the only part I am disappointed about, We are not making anymore money everything is cleaned up we are sitting exposed to the road waiting for our pay. I have to say that we did our part showed up on time, sold out of all the tree's they have, got all the stuff back to the warehouse in a timely manner, so why can't they pay us so we can move on to our next destination. I am writing this still sitting here waiting working for a month or so with no pay coming in and deplete your savings so in order to move on we need the $$$ lol...
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