I have decided that i am not one of them.
While i cannot deny there is money to be made and that someone else will love my discarded crap--I really do not enjoy the whole process. I love the purging part--and counting the money (between the two sales the daughter has made $1600. for her trip to Africa),but the negotiating with strangers as they haggle over a quarter makes me cringe. I don't like to watch as people cruise around my things looking for something worthy enough to make them open their coin purse--but i love when they do. I am constantly amazed at the things we have sold--things i have thought were relegated to the dump--that had no value left in them--only to see someone walking off thinking that they got the deal of a lifetime. I am also not a big garage sale attender--I guess i figure i don't need more crap in my house--especially someone else's crap. My one weakness at garage sales is furniture and chotskies--and maybe some cool frames. Typically those are things that will get me to stop. Take this cool chair my daughter acquired one Saturday morning years ago.
We were on our way home from swim practice (oh the memory of those days with that daughter--brings a tear to my eye. Finally, when she can drive and possible drive her sister she is done with the whole swimming thing--Not bitter--well maybe a tad but that is blog for another day....Oh how i ramble) ANyway...in effort to avoid Saturday morning chores we cruised the neighborhood on the way home looking for more stuff we don't need. We both spotted this chair on our drive by--(we know my weakness for cool furniture and my need for another project) it was my daughter who exclaimed that we should see how much it was. I slowed the car enough so she could jump out safely--and she came back with a huge smile on her face--declaring that she wanted it---it was only $20.00. Imagine my surprise when i opened my wallet and actually had money--it was destiny. We payed the man and then tried to figure out how to get this gargantuan chair and ottoman into our vehicle. Thank goodness i had the van that day--it has been known to pick up furniture on the side of the road in the past--at least this time i was only transporting one child instead of an entire van full--(not that i haven't acquired furniture before with that situation) so no one had to sit with the chair on their laps. It took up the entire van--so that ended our junking trip for the day.It was cool looking--and while the fabric was in good shape and oh so sixty-ish, it was not the style the daughter was going for.
It is a really comfy chair-any way you sat in it
The shape is great--different--not something you see every day--and the matching ottoman makes it like a chaise lounge--hence the boy lounging picture...oh so comfy...
Although to look at this punk you wouldn't think so. I don't know what his deal was that day--usually he is all cheese ball when the camera is pointed his way
And then there is this little one--who just felt the need to observe me up close and personal while i was stripping the chair.
I think he was concerned that i would mess up the integrity of this cool chair...
He also found it just as comfortable to lounge in it on its back and rock while watch the tube...
not many chairs you can rock in while they are on their back--this was his favorite way to sit in the chair...
I would often find him stretched out watching his favorite shows...and would have to shoo him off so i could get back to work....
He was a tad disappointed when i finished the chair and turned it upright...
The daughter on the other hand was thrilled with the Comfy Chair--it is soooo soft and fuzzy and you just kinda sink when you sit. She loved it....It was the best $20. i ever spent at a garage sale--although it did cost me a bit more to get it to look like this....what is one persons junk is anther persons treasure....and boy will she treasure this for many years to come....
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