Our neighbor stuck a note in our mailbox late last week, announcing our subdivision would host its first garage sale of the season the following week, and would we be interested in participating.
Participating? How about damn near jubilant, thanks for the invite? With Jim’s mom moved out, our home office back in its own private room and easy access to our basement and garage, we now have wiggle room to finally sort and stage everything else that should no longer reside at our house.
From chairs to lamps without shades to random fish tanks to so much crap that I know we did not buy but ended up in our basement anyway, Saturday was a frantic day of purging, cleaning, moving and pricing various pieces of furniture and other articles for the upcoming sale.
Some things of course are keepers – all Jordan and Jamie’s clothes from birth through the age of about five will remain in sealed storage bins until my sister is ready for them, along with their “Bear in the Big Blue House” toddler chair.
Sadly some things can’t even be given away for free and will be brought directly to the curb – like multiple, slightly-used car seats and baby carriers, and the two beautiful drop-side cribs my children managed to not become mangled by and have since been recalled.
And then there are the electronics: Multiple printers, scanners, VCR decks, fax machines, answering machines and telephones that served us so well in our old office, have now been replaced by a single, sleek and spatially-efficient all-in-one unit.
Even with the almost one week’s advance notice, I know we won’t be completely ready for the sale on Thursday, and will probably need to host a second sale in June, but at least it will clear much more needed space.
I fantasize about having enough space in our unfinished basement for Jordan and Jamie to skateboard freely and enough space in our two-car garage to park ONE minivan and twenty bikes, the monster blowup slip and slide, and more outdoor games and landscaping tools to shake a stick at.
The spring cleaning on steroids continues …
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