Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball

But I figured if I had to let go of any of my junk, So I decided to have a yard sale. that had all sorts of tips for how to do it right. Throw an epic yard sale. Books, toys, 50 hot tips and tricks. 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, like Cool stuff sale! Look, yard sale this way! Yard sale Saturday, 8 to 11 a.m. 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. $100 bill found on sidewalk. Please come to 12 Surrey Street to claim your property. I made a few copies of my sign and headed out to post them around the neighborhood. But Mom stopped me before I got out the front door. 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, like nesting dolls, a snow globe, a singing fish. So I put all those things together on one table and labeled it Great Gifts for Grandkids. I also had a bunch of birthday cards that were still in pretty good shape. So I used some whiteout to cover my name and set them out on their own table with a sign that said Pre-Written Birthday Cards. Just Add Money. I put all my broken toys on another table labeled Fun Toys. You break it, you buy it. And hoped some little kids who couldn't read would come to the yard sale. I stuffed all my random items, like marbles and a few pencil stubs, into some tube socks and thumbtacked them to a table with a sign that said Mystery Socks. Zero Dollars. What's Inside? I also created a table full of things for people who had money to burn. It was labeled Rare Items. Serious Buyers Only. And held a vampire bat shield, invisibility lotion, and freckle remover. 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 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 made for her in preschool. Mom seemed pretty eager to have that thing, and I could tell it was worth more than three bucks to her. So I told Mom it was all hers for ten. I guess I pushed my luck, though, because she went back inside without buying anything. While I waited for customers to show up, I started getting a little nervous. I realized all my stuff was just lying out in the open, and I had no way to stop people from stealing it. So I called my best friend, Rowley Jefferson, and asked him to come down and be my theft prevention officer. But Rowley said he was supposed to do something with his dad this afternoon, so he couldn't help me with the yard sale. I told him I'd promote him to theft prevention manager, and he'd even get to wear a badge. Luckily, that did the trick. As soon as Rowley got to my house, he started asking about that badge. All I could find was my old firefighter costume, but that seemed to make him feel important. Rowley asked what he was supposed to do as the theft prevention manager, and I said...