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Yard sale

We had a yard sale this weekend. Several neighbors stopped by, concerned that we were moving. One lady came by in the morning and cleaned out our Lenox and Waterford stuff that we got as wedding gifts and never took out of the box. She came back late in the afternoon and took almost everything we had left for free. In the end, we made over $200 and gained some room in our house.

I am generally reluctant to bring stuff into the house. I rarely buy things I don't think we'll use in the near future or want to keep long-term. Still, the yard sale was a good reminder about not accumulating too much. Even though a lot of the things we sold were unused gifts, some were things we had wanted, like the cheese dome from Pottery Barn that had seemed worth the $30 when we registered for it and that nobody wanted to buy for $2. Turns out one person's treasure is the same person's junk, if you wait a few years.

All we have left is some old books, which we'll probably recycle, and my audio tape collection circa 1989. Anybody need a Guys Next Door tape?

Full post as published by Magic Cookie on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).