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| Tomorrow is the big day - the H-U-G-E garage sale my sons' boy scouts troop puts on every summer. We started setting up at 2:00 last Sunday and have worked every day since.
My goal was: every time I drove down to the church to sort & set up, take a FULL van load of my own clutter. I did it! 8 trips - 8 vanloads GONE. It's only stratched the surface but I can tell a big difference in the garage & the 2 younger sons' room. (Oldest son is pretty neat & not a clutterbug). 2 old bikes out of the garage, about 10 old lawn chairs out of the garage, 2 shelving units, 2 sets of unused skiis & poles, a big box of outgrown soccer cleats, dozens of bags of outgrown kids clothes, a HUGE box of shoes from all of us, box of purses, tons of my own clothes. It feels SO GOOD to get all that out of my house! |
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- Posted by socks12345 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 14, 09 at 23:06
| Terrific effort for a wonderful, worthwhile organization. Thank you. |
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| Wonderful, the best part is whatever doesn't sell, the Boy Scouts will get rid of it or donate it, it's never coming back to you! I donated a bunch of stuff to my daughters' school when they held a giant White Elephant sale. Thw most embarassing item was an electric breast punp from my breast feeding days. Wht did I keep that around so long? |
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- Posted by des_arc_ya_ya (My Page) on Sun, Aug 16, 09 at 20:44
| Sounds like you did a good thing - both for yourself and for the Boy Scout troop. Congratulations! |
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| I'm so happy for you! Ride the wave of excitement, and continue to declutter a bit every day.. |
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- Posted by talley_sue_nyc (My Page) on Thu, Aug 20, 09 at 22:35
| Yay, mommabird! That's a lot of space reclaimed in your home. |
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