Tuesday, July 31, 2007
300 Things Gone
The Goodwill continues to have a "One Bag Only of Donations Per Day" posted on its door for now, but I have also discovered that the library accepts donations of books all year round for their annual sale so most of the books I'm getting rid of will be dropped off there.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The Second Hundred Things Out the Door
This is the next batch of things I'm boxing up.
Some of it is going to the Goodwill, some to the daycare, and I think that the purple shirt in the second picture will soon belong to Zoe.
So. That's 200 things.
It's been harder to get rid of things than I thought. Not because these items are particularly wrenching to part with, but because the thrift store had a sign on the door all last week saying they'd only accept one bag of donations a day.
Some days I didn't have time to drop a bag or box off so it was a long, drawn-out process. It was rather disheartening. I'd rather hoped to get rid of a trunkful of things in one fell swoop and be back again the next day with another.
Some of it is going to the Goodwill, some to the daycare, and I think that the purple shirt in the second picture will soon belong to Zoe.
So. That's 200 things.
It's been harder to get rid of things than I thought. Not because these items are particularly wrenching to part with, but because the thrift store had a sign on the door all last week saying they'd only accept one bag of donations a day.
Some days I didn't have time to drop a bag or box off so it was a long, drawn-out process. It was rather disheartening. I'd rather hoped to get rid of a trunkful of things in one fell swoop and be back again the next day with another.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
The First Hundred Things
Pictured here are the first One Hundred Things that are going out my door this week to the thrift shop. I've decided that I'm finished having garage sales and doing flea markets .
And so now I must get rid of My Stock (as I mentally refer to it) before my resolve crumbles.
I know it's worth money because, as I've often said, I've been nickel-and-diming my way to fortune for eight years now. I look at an old toy and see fifty cents, a vase might be a dollar. The reality is that over time I might glean several hundred dollars from the boxes upon boxes in the basement and garage. I see the potential in junk.
But I've come (at least temporarily) to the conclusion that it's all too much mess. It's too much trouble. It's too much stuff. I'd rather not have sale after sale and spend all day in the driveway flogging all this stuff.
Very little of it has emotional value to me, none of it is valuable as an individual item. I'd be very surprised if any savvy garage-sale shopper would pay me more than two dollars for anything I have on offer.
But I have so MUCH!
I mean, how many items are down there in those boxes? Hundreds? Thousands?
I look at these four photographs of one hundred items that have been stagnating in my basement and it doesn't really look like that much. Now I'm curious....do I have ten thousand things to get rid of? I think it's possible.
And so now I must get rid of My Stock (as I mentally refer to it) before my resolve crumbles.
I know it's worth money because, as I've often said, I've been nickel-and-diming my way to fortune for eight years now. I look at an old toy and see fifty cents, a vase might be a dollar. The reality is that over time I might glean several hundred dollars from the boxes upon boxes in the basement and garage. I see the potential in junk.
But I've come (at least temporarily) to the conclusion that it's all too much mess. It's too much trouble. It's too much stuff. I'd rather not have sale after sale and spend all day in the driveway flogging all this stuff.
Very little of it has emotional value to me, none of it is valuable as an individual item. I'd be very surprised if any savvy garage-sale shopper would pay me more than two dollars for anything I have on offer.
But I have so MUCH!
I mean, how many items are down there in those boxes? Hundreds? Thousands?
I look at these four photographs of one hundred items that have been stagnating in my basement and it doesn't really look like that much. Now I'm curious....do I have ten thousand things to get rid of? I think it's possible.
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