About eight years ago, A Musing Mom tagged me to share eight facts about myself. Llama Mamma also got tagged by Craver, only she decided to stir things up a little, and she broke all the rules. Then, when LL over on Seedlings in Stone got tagged, she changed the game altogether, making it a poem/book review, of sorts. Now it’s my turn, and I decided to list eight things I am selling in my garage sale this weekend, including pictures! (This is not a new form of eBay, though. So there will be no on-line bidding.)
1. A water bottle that was left after a Sunday School picnic two years ago. Yes, I still have it. No, I don’t know why.
2. A basket. Yes, you’re right, I did just buy a new basket at someone else’s garage sale two weekends ago. But it was different than this basket. Really.
3. Speaking of that garage sale two weeks ago, here is an overhead light I thought I just couldn’t live without. It only took me the trip home to realize I could live without it. Now it’s going back into the food chain!
4. A fancy tea set. I have collected tea pots and tea cups for years, but suddenly, I feel overwhelmed with them all. I’m keeping a few, but some, like this little set, came from a garage sale, have no sentimental value, and will soon end up in someone else’s tea pot collection.
5. Cider House Rules by John Irving. Ok, I read the book, I liked it, but I can’t imagine EVER reading it again. So even though there are still hundreds of other books on my shelf that I could NEVER part with, I’m letting this one go. Be safe, little book!
6. Two skirts. I am no fashionista, that’s for sure. I’ve had these skirts for at least seven years, but I haven’t worn either of them for the past 2-3 years. According to the What Not to Wear people, that’s more than enough reason to liquidate them. (Did I mention that they also so not really fit anymore, either?)
7. A toaster oven. I just realized that the reason I don’t have much counter space in my kitchen is because I have three major gadgets taking up all the space. I do use my microwave oven and coffee pot from time to time, but this toaster oven gets used VERY rarely. In other words, this guy drew the short straw, and he’s out.
8. The kitchen sink. I’ve always wanted to say, “This yard sale has everything, including the kitchen sink.” Well, now I can. Besides, I’m so happy with my new one, I’ll never have a need for this one again.
I won’t put pressure on eight people to have a garage sale of their own. But just for fun, if YOU could get rid of one item in your house today, what would it be? And, of course, why?
Photos of my junk by me
Charity,
This is a great way to answer a meme! I was cracking up. And glad to see you say goodbye to that old kitchen sink.
What would I get rid of in my house? Hmmm… I’m working on Freecycling a trampoline that we got from someone else, thinking that we’d put it up and the kids would have a grand old time. I got to thinking about the fact that we don’t have a fenced yard, and we DO have some rather impish neighbor children, and I just couldn’t handle the stress of the legal possibilities. The trampoline goes.
I’m also Freecycling a set of really groovy deck furniture that my mom gave me. It looks like something straight out of Malibu Barbie’s mustard and avocado themed cabana. Anyone interested?
Spaghettipie — I always have the same thought every time I purge things from my home. “Didn’t I just get rid of everything last year?”
Oh boy, I wish i lived close by. I have been on a tear cleaning stuff out (and I thought I had cleaned it all out the last time!). On the top of the list is also our dining room table and chairs – it’s glass with chrome legs. Very modern looking and totally not my style. It was inherited and has served its purpose, but I’d rather have a wooden table.
Llama Momma — Tea pots are not my first collection that I’ve later lost interest in. I don’t think I’m a good collector. I have trouble committing to one thing. (And I also don’t like to dust!)
Craver — There are some days I’d like to put a price tag on my pooch as well! (Most of the time she’s priceless, though.)
LL — I have my phases. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been in the mood to get rid of stuff. I’ve been grabbing stuff right off the wall or out of the cabinet and putting a price on it for the garage sale. Two weeks from now, I’ll probably still be wondering where my stuff went!
Stacy — I’m also putting a coffee grinder in the sale. Maybe you and I could combine the latte machine and the coffee grinder and offer a special deal! I always thought it would be so great to grind my own coffee. But it is so much easier to use the grinder at the store.
Kay — If you want to bring the humidifier, VCR and clothes on down to the garage sale this weekend, let me know! I keep a little stash of stuff to get rid of too. There’s always something that needs to go.
A Musing — Funny how things that we want to get rid of often take a circuitous journey to their new home. My garage is packed with things on the first phase of their journey, which hopefully people will snatch up and take on the second phase this weekend!
Ted — I feel sorry for all the parents out there who have “inherited” their grown children’s stuff. I know I still have a few things at my mom’s house that I don’t want anymore.
Anybody want a dog?
(just kidding)
Great post!
I used to collect tea stuff too, and it just sits in my china cabinet now. Actually, I’d like to get rid of my dining room set (cabinet, hutch, table) and buy a simple long table for the room instead. Too much stuff in too small a room, and large dinner parties feel crowded instead of intimate. And, honestly, the only thing I regularly access in the cabinet and hutch is the paper plates! :-0
I also want to get rid of a cassette rack that my husband is finally willing to part with. It’s beautifully made, but who has cassette tapes any more??? I even tried to freecycle it. No takers.
See, now, there’s the problem. I don’t want to get rid of anything.
PS. Great idea with the tag!
My latte machine (or la-ti-da machine as my mom calls it). With so many instant latte’s and flavors, it just isn’t worth the trouble, and quite frankly I don’t have the time. Maybe at some point I’ll make real latte’s again, but not anytime soon. 🙂
I have a small corner of my closet floor dedicated to things for Goodwill-humidifer, VCR that doesn’t record, and of course some clothes. However, my favorite thing to throw away is paper. This summer I am going to clean out my “homeowner files” and “master’s classes files.” My carpet cleaning receipt and a syllabus from 2005 aren’t taking up much space, but I feel like there is less on my plate when I get rid of them.
oh, I did have some help, at least from our daughter on that. That was a task complicated by me needing to get to the nursing home shortly. I’ll be glad when the pressures of life like that that come up all too often, are over forever, at least in regard to the limitations we experience in meeting such challenges.
Charity, Nice garage sale.
Wow. Good question. Where do I start? One thing: I guess the old couch I had to drag in on a rainy Sunday at our daughter’s request, who now doens’t want it. It needs a talented hand but has some promise.
Ah Charity, I love your response to this tag! I am always getting rid of things from my house (it’s a compulsion). Currently it’s clothing, but there’s a computer stand that my husband built way back when that is huge that I’d like to be rid of once and for all. It was already expelled from our house, but only made it as far as the garage. But I say it’s not even welcome there. It’s just too huge & useless.