June 20, 2011

• Yard Sale & Special #4

   

  It’s Monday afternoon. And I am SO happy to have the weekend behind us!

  It was a fun, busy time – a lot of events going on with Ben’s family because of a lovely girlfriend brought around by his brother, and then preparing for the yard sale Saturday, early mornings & late nights…

  The yard sale was something we had been dreading and looking forward to at the same time.
  
  Dreading because of ALL the work that goes into something like that…
  …the purging of the house
  … the cleaning out of cupboards and drawers and closets, and, worst of all, attic
  … the hours spent organizing and pricing and cleaning various articles
  … remembering to put the ad in the paper by Monday morning
  … remembering to get a permit, lest the police shut down our yard sale (this actually happens here!!?!)
  
  [the signs my neighbor, Lauren, and I made ~ and it was so fun the day of the yard sale when people told us they came because they saw our signs, and knew it had to be a nice yard sale with those kinds of signs!]

  
  
  [cute yard sale signs inspired by Janelle! she does everything with such beauty!]

  And very much looking forward to it because…
  … of all the families that were participating (neighbor, church friend, Ben’s sister, Ben’s brother & wife, and us)  and how fun that would be! (5 in our front yard, plus two more families in the neighboring yard)
  … after all the work, hoping for a successive sale!
  … of a little bit of money made from all the work
  … of HOW CLEAN the whole house would feel after all the STUFF was taken OUT!
  … of making cute little signs, and hoping that would draw people, regardless of whether the newspaper printed an entirely different address for our ad

  [my daughters got a hold of a paintbrush the day of the sign-making... thanks to Lauren for capturing the moment.  if it's not markers, it's a paintbrush!]

  

   

  This is the 3rd house we’ve lived in in our 6 years of marriage, and each house keeps getting smaller and smaller. Since our 1st house five years ago, I’ve been saving things – decor, books, a lot of different household articles, just hoping for the one day that I’d live in a house that would hold them all!
  
  I finally came to the realization that that day is a long way off, and it would be much better to live clutter-free in my present house, with two closets to its name, than to have an attic full of things that would never make it down the stairs. So, we sold a dining room full of stuff! Nice stuff! Stuff I liked! But I have other stuff I like better. So the nice stuff was sold so I could keep the stuff I loved!

  [the sign as people walked into the yard]

  

  I have no pictures at all from the entire day. Sadly.
  But our front yard was a blur of activity from 6am to 12pm.
  The rain that had poured the past three nights held off.
  Even the sun hid behind the clouds until noon, gracing us with a pleasant day instead of melting us.
  And in that time we went from a dining room full of boxes down to four little boxes that fit in the front of the truck!!
  And the other people that participated almost completely sold out as well! We were all so excited!

  I do think everyone felt very pleased – the yard sale vendors, for getting rid of things that were not needful, and the buyers, to find a yard sale where people were selling NICE things! [that is not common in this area: many yard sales here sell things that should really be in the trash).

  I'm SO glad it was all over! Sunday night I was so exhausted fromt he weekend I actually felt ill. Today has been laaaaaazy. But I think we earned a few extra hours of sleep this morning after getting up at 5:30 on a SATURDAY morning.

  And that was our weekend........

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  And I must be off – it’s 3:40pm and I still can hear two little girls bouncing in their beds, no nap yet taken…

   

  ~clarita

   

  
  
   

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