Garage sales are hard work

It is truly mind blowing as we are realizing just how much STUFF we have. It's incredible. Why??? Why do we have all of this? We've just been following the American way...have the space, fill it all up! More more more!!! Just when I think we're getting a handle on it, we discover another closet or nook and there is more STUFF!

Social media is amazing -- we have been able to sell quite a bit of our belongings through sites like Facebook and Instagram! Thank you to each person who has bought anything from us because you have contributed to our whole downsizing movement -- and we appreciate that big time!

But, even with everything we've sold on social media, we still have SO MUCH STUFF. And you know what that means -- time for a garage sale! Garage sales are kind of like puppies and babies -- there is so much time between one and the next, you forget just how much work they actually are!

We worked all week, getting ready for the sale. We had enough to fill a garage and two rooms. We put an ad in the local newspaper's print and online issues. We moved furniture outside. We spent a whole evening pricing everything. We asked my friend, Kim, to come over and help us man the sale on Saturday and she kindly agreed! We were ready.

We had a decent amount of people come out; in terms of garage sale days, I hear it was a slow one in general. It was super hot (100 degrees) and we live outside the city limits. But, people did come and we did sell some stuff. We made some money, but more importantly -- STUFF left our property. I hope it is a very long time before we need to have another garage sale.

So now we are tasked with packing everything up for Goodwill -- thankfully, they will come and pick everything up, and that saves me a huge step. I'll be working on that these next few days and will then schedule the pick up. We also found a church youth group in need of couches for their meeting room, so we are donating our two love seats to them. Good for them, good for us!

Moving right along into a new week, and still so much to do.