So I FINALLY got the word from the Ex that he WASN’T going to come get all the crap he left in the house. Which meant I could have my much awaited garage sale. Yay! and Ugh!
Events like this tend to set off my “must do it perfectly or it won’t be successful” compulsion. But the procrastinator in me helps balance that out! So it came down the wire. And I was “planning” on doing all these things to prep for the garage sale but kept putting of actually DOING any of them. lol
But I managed and learned that it went just fine without all the perfection. It actually went better! I’m either getting lazy or just less OCD, I cant tell which.
I never got around to “pricing” many of the items. Hell, I barely got notices in the Pennysaver and Craigslist before the event! It was so windy I lost half the signs I put up, which was why I didn’t put them up until Saturday Morning missing the Friday home from work crowd. And Sex God, who was supposed to help, got called into work Saturday morning.
But…
Not having it priced made it much easier to sell items. If they were interested they’d ask how much. Since my goal was to get rid of this stuff I priced almost all of it at $1, with a few items at $2 or $5 and the big furniture at Craigslist pricing.
Most of the sales occurred Saturday AM with the professional garage sale people cleaning me out of the resellable online items. But I did manage to sell a few big ticket items and make a few bob. And Sex God’s trip into work took less time than imagined so I got to enjoy the weekend with him.
AND he brought over his Playstation 3.
Impossi-puzzle
Luke has been dropping hints he wants one cuz “all the critically acclaimed games are for Playstation and NOT the Wii” (which is his reasoning) so he was in heaven! Then my Sex God impressed Evan by assembling from pieces what Evan calls the Impossipuzzle. I honestly didn’t think he’s be able to do it cuz I tried it once (and I’m fairly good at puzzles) and I’d failed, so I’d bet him $5 he couldn’t!
Conor came back from camping with his father on Sunday ’round 11am at which point I set the boys into cleaning my house while Sex God and I sat under the shade umbrella on the outdoor bench with our laptops waiting for customers. And after the incredible sex the night before (Sex God delivers it soooo nicely) I was rather ambivalent about any Sunday sales, although there were a few.
But it didn’t matter. I spent that afternoon putting the big items on Craigslist and sold 3 in 24 hours. And at the end of Sunday we loaded all the rest of the stuff down to Goodwill.
Crocked BBQ Pork Ribs greeted us for dinner with Ice Cream from the Ice Cream truck for desert. Conor wanted Mac N Cheese so I made it for a side dish and fed them raw carrots & snow peas for veggies. Easy-Peasy-Dinner.
And even though I made him do most of the heavy work & made him sit next to me during the boring slow times of the garage sale & he sat through the first 20 minutes of 4 dull movies until we found one he liked, when it was time for lights out Sex God gave me a wonderful compliment.
*sigh* “Wish every day was the weekend.”
🙂 Those are the same words my kids say to me. I must be doing SOMETHING right!