Purge Cycle #2

We had our second yard sale today. Again, I forgot to take a picture until later, when alot of our stuff had been sold already.
Unfortunately though, at some point during the yard sale, someone walked off with my old 35mm SLR camera I was selling. The camera and the camera bag. Unbelievable. It wasn't like I was going to ask alot for it- maybe 5, 10 dollars. They are selling on eBay for $25 or so. But someone felt the need to steal it. And so for the second time in a row Brian and I have been robbed during a yard sale. I hate that.

However, it was a beautiful day for a yard sale and we had a great time sitting outside, enjoying the weather and the company of our neighbors.

A beautiful day sprinkled with some of our neighbors from further down the street stopping by to ask about the house. Since our realtor doesn't put an "Under Contract" sign out, alot of our neighbors have been nervous that our house hasn't sold. But we assured them all that we had two contracts within days of the open house. No need to worry, houses still sell relatively quickly in our neighborhood. But we got the feeling that a lot of them were nervous for us, or for them and the values around us. That pesky real estate market has everyone nervous I guess.

Purge Cycle #1

Well, we had a yard sale this past Saturday. I'm sure our first of many as we get ready to move. We collected an assortment of things from our home to prepare for this sale over the past month. And when I say "assortment", I mean anything in the house we could grab that we don't want to have to pack or move. This is what our living room and dining room looked like the week before the event:

How did we collect all of this stuff? How did we fit all of this in our house? Why does it feel like we haven't made a dent into anything? Truly, these are the mysteries of life.

Somehow we managed to get it all set up and ready to go before Brian had his coffee Saturday morning. About halfway through the yard sale I realized, "Hey! I've got a blog now! Where is my camera?" So here is most of our stuff set up and ready to be bought, to be shipped off to Salvation Army, or to be placed back into our basement to wait for the next purge cycle.

And what did we do with Marion during this crazy Saturday morning? Why, we locked her in toddler prison with a friend, some toys, and a pumpkin!

She had fun, trust me. She had even more fun when Grammie showed up to play with her! After all was said and done, I think we managed to sell almost half of our stuff. The other half was either donated to Salvation Army or packed away to await the next yard sale, most likely in the spring.

So, stay tuned for our spring moving/block yard sale. Something tells me it'll be a big one!