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.
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