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Day 168 – LeMars Bulldog Mug, Saudi Arabian Necktie and Dead Seahorses (Throw … though Melissa may take the seahorses to school to do who-knows-what with)
Here’s an oddball assortment of treasures I uncovered as I brought tubs out of the storage barn for this weekend’s garage sale (and, believe me, I am just getting started on the oddball treasures here). The seahorses were from my summers in Saudi Arabia … I think (darn lousy memory!). I found them scattered up and down a beach one morning. Thousands upon thousands of them drying in the sun. They are perfectly preserved little exoskeletons. And you know what? Surprisingly, they don’t smell bad. The necktie is obviously from Saudi Arabia – no memory skills needed for that one. …
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Day 167 – Five Tubs of STUFF (Sell)
Today was the garage sale and Steve and Keri’s house. They made over $500! YAY! We made $80.30! BOOOOOOOO! Oh, well. On the bright side, we got rid of 5 tubs of stuff. (I will spare you an itemized list – but just this once!) That lightens the load. And improves the appearance of the garage. Hopefully this week we will be listing our house with our realtor friend, Robyn. Here’s how it plays out ideally: The house sells mid-May. The prospective owners offer several thousand over the asking price. Once school ends, we take a week and clear everything…
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Day 166 – Assorted Items (Throw)
All sorts of items are headed toward the trash (or recycling) or tomorrow’s garage sale. Plus, I’ve found several more boxes of bizarre keepsakes, so be looking for those in the next few days! (Very exciting!)
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Day 165 – Lamp (Sell) and Day 166 – Laundry Hamper (Sell)
These are just a couple of items that will go into a big (hopefully!) garage sale this Saturday at Steve and Keri’s house. We really need to gather more things together to sell – tomorrow evening will probably be rather busy. I hope we will be able to put whatever money we make into the Haiti fund. The kids’ passports have arrived and I am trying to nail down dates with the folks in the field and flights with the same group that set up the itinerary for the groups from our church this past year – Men for Missions…
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Day 164 – Hubcap (Throw)
This hubcap belonged to a van that was junked years ago. It fell off and I couldn’t get it to stay put after that so it hung in the garage for the past four years or so. Not sure what it was waiting for exactly. Time to move on, little hubcap. Go into the light!
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Day 163 – Running Bibs (Throw)
Found some more running souvenirs – bibs from various races. Once pinned proudly to my shirt as I ran around downtown Indianapolis … now just clutter on a shelf. Thought I should toss them. No big deal. I have a co-worker who is trying to sell her mini-marathon spot. I didn’t register this year because it costs $50 and we need to be saving money wherever possible. My co-worker is selling her spot for $25. I’m tempted, but even if it were free, I haven’t done any serious long runs for 7 or 8 months. Nothing over 7 miles recently and the mini…
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Day 162 – Plastic Easter Eggs (Give and Throw)
Typically, Easter has signaled the beginning of weeks of finding stray strands of plastic grass and various plastic eggs scattered around our house. This year, Melissa and I sat down with all the eggs we’ve collected over this year and past years and sorted through them, throwing away all the mismatched halves and bagging the whole eggs. The whole eggs I am giving to a co-worker whose church has an egg hunt each year. Our kids participated on Saturday and had a good time even though the weather was pretty crummy. Apparently, this church fills something like 11,000 eggs each…
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Day 161 – Vase (Give)
The night before Easter, our friend Beka came down from Greenwood to spend the evening with us. Melissa made a great meal and Beka stuck around to enjoy the spectacle of our kids dyeing Easter eggs. Beka is a stateside missionary with OMS who lives very simply, in a plain one-bedroom apartment (with the tiniest kitchen you’ve ever seen!). She is transitioning this week to a new position within OMS and our prayers are with her – she started out in journalism and is now starting work within the mobilization department. This means she’ll be helping to recruit potential missionaries and then…
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Days 158 and 159 – More T-Shirts (Give)
I’m taking the easy way out for a couple of days – just grabbing a few pieces of clothing each day to add to the pile going to the Ginormous Clothing Drive at our church. I record some of them here more for my benefit and interest than yours! Somehow, it seems easier to part with them when I have at least a photograph to remember… (I know it’s goofy!)
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Day 160 – Toy Handcuffs (Throw … before somebody gets hurt!)
I was called into the boys’ room this evening to the sight of Dats (age 9) squirming around with his wrists handcuffed together behind his back. And these aren’t the cheap plastic type – they are full-on metal. We eventually freed one hand, but the other side of the cuffs was stuck and getting tighter. It seemed to have something jammed into its “lock” mechanism. Once we finally pried the cuffs completely off, Melissa insisted we throw these things away. OK by me since I hadn’t yet found anything to toss today. I love a good excuse to throw some of…
