I have been getting a kick out of getting rid of stuff. We decided to not use the drapes in our family room. Jeff was getting ready to throw them away. I looked and they were Pottery Barn (the former owner had installed them.) Some people (my Jeff) don't know what Pottery Barn means!!! A friend is getting them. I also have two purses I am selling. I sold some shoes. I'm selling them for little or nothing.
You have a garage sale and people come up and insult you. I remember I had a London Fog trench coat and I had $2 on it. This person came up and said, "I'll give you a dime for it." A DIME? Go away!!! A dime had value when I was 10 years old!!! So I sell a little at a time or give away. Garage sales are too much work.
My house is upside down again. Our bathtub leaked so we had some ceiling damage. Insurance paid to fix it so we are painting the ceiling and the walls in the family room and kitchen and living room. I think this is the end of the upheaval in our home. I have so much "stuff." I don't want stuff anymore. I don't want upheaval.
A friend my age posted on FB that she was getting healthy and cleaning and organizing your house. Is it our age? My mom said to me something like, "You live your life acquiring. Always striving for more. Then you get to the point where you are trying to purge and get rid of it all." I am there. I want simple. I want to know where everything is. This is a major undertaking because I am kind of a pack rat. I cannot throw stuff away. If it has use to someone else I have to give it away, sell it or donate it.
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