{"id":2000,"date":"2010-11-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","slug":"day-14-assorted-junk-throw-give-and-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"Day 14 – Assorted Junk (Throw, Give, and Sell)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I never know what to think about garage sales.\u00a0 Melissa took several big tubs full of hot wheels cars, baby dolls, and books to a big indoor garage sale today.\u00a0 It’s a pretty good deal.\u00a0 Each seller has to make sure each item is clearly marked with a removable price tag and then you can just drop your stuff off, the organizers sell it and then give you about 75% of the profits.\u00a0 Nice and easy.<\/p>\n\n\n

But here’s what I don’t like about garage sales … well, here’s the basic thing<\/em><\/strong> I don’t like about garage sales (there are lots of little things to hate about garage sales):\u00a0 for me, it’s always\u00a0one of those “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” scenarios.\u00a0 If I put something in a garage sale and it sells, I often feel guilty.\u00a0 “I can’t believe\u00a0you just gave me cash for this object I have obviously\u00a0deemed worthless and unnecessary!\u00a0 Sucker!”\u00a0 But if I put something in a garage sale and it doesn’t sell, I get defensive.\u00a0 “What?\u00a0 The stuff that I spent my hard earned money on isn’t good enough for you?\u00a0 Even though I’m offering it for a fifth of what I paid for it?\u00a0 Snob!”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

After lunch I started sorting through a box of\u00a0items mostly from our Pensacola days.\u00a0 I did a pretty good job of moving quickly through the contents – considering it’s been five years since I’ve looked through these things.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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See? … goofy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Here are some of the contents and their fates:\u00a0 Old daytimers – thrown away, even though I wanted to flip pages and see what was occupying my days\u00a09 years ago.\u00a0 Some picture frames – to be given away, maybe to Goodwill, even though some were gifts from close friends.\u00a0 A floating pen souvenir from the coolest laser tag arena I’ve ever been to – thrown away, even though it pained me.\u00a0 (It was a place in Saudi Arabia which was just incredible.)\u00a0 Photographs – about half were kept and the other half lingered over briefly before being thrown.\u00a0 A FishForce baseball cap – kept, even though I look goofy in hats.\u00a0 I had forgotten all about it, but now that I’ve rediscovered it, I’m just not ready to part with it!\u00a0 (Afterall, I was the one who designed the FishForce logo.)\u00a0 A Kermit the Frog keychain – to be given to Melissa for her kindergarten prize box.\u00a0 A traveling communion set (!) – not sure what to do with this yet.\u00a0 Know anybody who needs one??\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

I keep wondering what Melissa and I will do with the leftover stuff that\u00a0we want to keep but we can’t take with us to Haiti.\u00a0 Pay for indefinite storage in some warehouse or see if we can claim a corner of some relative’s basement?\u00a0 It’s hard to predict, but I’m sure\u00a0some plan<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0will be necessary.\u00a0 If for no other reason than for things like the paper I found in the bottom of this box today.\u00a0 It was a print out of the email my oldest brother, Ryan, sent out to extended family members and friends when Dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor.\u00a0 The note covered the diagnosis, the futility of pursuing any sort of aggressive treatment, and the prognosis … and it ended with the announcement of the birth of our first daughter.\u00a0 I can’t\u00a0bring myself to\u00a0toss something like that into the recycle bin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never know what to think about garage sales.\u00a0 Melissa took several big tubs full of hot wheels cars, baby dolls, and books to a big indoor garage sale today.\u00a0 It’s a pretty good deal.\u00a0 Each seller has to make sure each item is clearly marked with a removable price tag and then you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}