{"id":2133,"date":"2011-05-03T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T01:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:04:23","slug":"garage-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"Garage Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 Which meant I could have my much awaited garage sale.\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 and Ugh! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Events like this tend to set off my “must do it perfectly or it won’t be successful” compulsion.\u00a0 But the procrastinator in me helps balance that out!\u00a0 So it came down the wire.\u00a0 And I was “planning” on doing all these things to prep for the garage sale but kept putting of actually DOING any of them.\u00a0 lol<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But I managed and learned that it went just fine without all the perfection.\u00a0 It actually went better!\u00a0 I’m either getting lazy or just less OCD, I cant tell which.
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I never got around to “pricing” many of the items.\u00a0 Hell, I barely got notices in the Pennysaver and Craigslist before the event!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And Sex God, who was supposed to help,\u00a0 got called into work Saturday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not having it priced made it much easier to sell items.\u00a0 If they were interested they’d ask how much.\u00a0 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. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of the sales occurred Saturday AM with the professional garage sale people cleaning me out of the resellable online items.\u00a0 But I did manage to sell a few big ticket items and make a few bob.\u00a0 And Sex God’s trip into work took less time than imagined so I got to enjoy the weekend with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

AND he brought over his Playstation 3. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Impossi-puzzle<\/p><\/div>\n

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!\u00a0 Then my Sex God impressed Evan by assembling from pieces what Evan calls the Impossipuzzle.\u00a0 I honestly didn’t think he’s be able to do it\u00a0 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!
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Conor came back from camping with his father on Sunday \u00a0 ’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.\u00a0 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But it didn’t matter.\u00a0 I spent that afternoon putting the big items on Craigslist and sold 3 in 24 hours.\u00a0 And at the end of Sunday we loaded all the rest of the stuff down to Goodwill. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Crocked BBQ Pork Ribs greeted us for dinner with Ice Cream from the Ice Cream truck for desert.\u00a0 Conor wanted Mac N Cheese so I made it for a side dish and fed them raw carrots & snow peas for veggies.\u00a0 Easy-Peasy-Dinner.
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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, <\/strong>when it was time for lights out Sex God gave me a wonderful compliment. <\/strong><\/p>\n

*sigh*\u00a0 “Wish every day was the weekend.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Those are the same words my kids say to me.\u00a0 I must be doing SOMETHING right!
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