Preparing for my Garage Sale

After more than thirty years of marriage there are bound to be things that need to be gotten rid of.  Especially when you are a professional at garage sales, and second hand store things.  In a consumer driven industry, when you don't have a lot of money, the second hand stores and garage sales provide you that release you need, shopping for something without spending a lot of money, and finding beautiful things that someone else owned, but discarded or lost, or maybe even passed on to the next life, and left.  Where it all comes from, doesn't even matter.  It's the idea that if you can't afford the mall, you go to the second hand store and you are destined to find something.  
Once I went out looking, and i mean searching, for a 'podium'.  I wanted a place to place my bible, so that whenever i got the mind to, i could just open it up and read it.  Like when I get on my soap box.  Or when I get a feeling of dread, or loneliness, the bible is my word, the living word.  Who wouldn't want a podium?  Right?  Well, believe it or not, i found one, but it was sold to a minister who wouldn't part with it.  I don't blame him, I wouldn't have either. 
But that didn't stop me from finding something of use that day.  Clothes for my granddaughters.  I love trinkets, and anything shiny things like champagne flutes, or wine glasses, or coffee mugs.  I even once went out in search of a desk, to place my sewing machine on, because the vibrations rattled the little 36" table that I picked up from (of all places) Walmart.
Well, it's time to get rid of things and possibly earn a little cash on the side, and going through all those things, brought up many memories.  I found pictures of my kids, when they were born... my oldest son being more than 30 years, and I thought I had all my pictures in one place, but I have more pictures than can be counted.  And there's something about going back and looking at photos, something about actually seeing them, turning the pages of the photo album that gives one a feeling indescribable.  The digital age makes a lot of things like pictures in albums obsolete, but I don't ever believe that a photo album gift isn't something that will always be cherished by the receiver of said gift.

So, while I continue to go through my house preparing for my garage sale, i know that there are a few things that i must do to make it successful.  It's important to advertise in a local paper.  And with Craig's List, it makes it more successful to advertise even there.  

 Now with all my things, I hope to make this day something better.  Living to Write, Writing to Live.

Everything must go!

 

Things they are a changin

I survived this day.  And now, it's at the end, I am finally able to sit my feeble ass down, and I am thank to God Almighty that I lived through the insanity that i saw today.  Some days are just full of goodness, you know, like the cool breeze blowing on your face after a long hot summer.  As simple as a child wanting to go to the park, to swing, ride on the slide, or just sit on a merry go round, or just taking my little dog for a walk.  But today, I saw my granddaughters full of glee as they ate donuts while their mother was in the doctor's office, walk into the library where the hope of their future was calling out to them and they couldn't decide which book to get, and then going through an attic of old stuff preparing for a garage sale, because the stuff i keep is just too old. 
What happened after that, i cannot even speak about, but I am yet alive, therefore, i can still say, I am happy within because despite the sever arthritis that caused my kids to become people i don't even know, or want to know, i live, and as long as there is breath in my body I will give all power to Him who believes in me more than I believe in myself. 
So, I do well, and since it's over, done, the end of this day, I sit and relax, and remember the trip to the library with little people who'll one day become big people, who'll hope and dream, and maybe even make magic happen, I thank God, I Live to 'Write', and I write to live.

Afterall, these are the moments worth living, and with that in mind, I bid you Good night!