We’re participating in a neighborhood yard/tag sale
tomorrow. In preparation for the sale,
Greg and I have been gathering our stuff together that we no longer want or
need. We don’t have a lot really but what we
do have is choice. Here’s the story of some of our stuff.
1) Look in the cupboard where you keep your
glasses. If they all match, you deserve
50 points. Seems 90% of us have odds and
ends of glasses hanging out in our cupboards.
I have decided to look through mine and get rid of some. Here’s a variety of wine(ish) glasses that
haven’t been used in a long time. Of course, that's mainly because they were on the top shelf and I couldn't reach them. But we have enough so these can go. In
reality, I actually like having mis-matched wine glasses and use them when we
have a party. That saves me from having
to buy those wine glass charms. For the
ones that are the same, I just wrap the stems with different colored pipe
cleaners and voila! A regular Martha Stewart, that's what I am.
2) And speaking of glassware, what do you think of
this honker?? I think I won it as part
of a basket of goodies in a raffle. It’s
shaped like a martini glass. But if you
drank a martini that big you’d be face down in a ditch somewhere. I don’t know what else to use it for so it’s
going…I hope!
3) These crows fit into the category of “What the
heck was I thinking when I threw these dudes into my shopping cart?” They must have been pretty inexpensive for me
to have picked them up in the first place, but they never quite found the right place to roost in
this house. I think that that's mainly because there isn't a clear surface anywhere. I kind of like them, but someone else can let them
feather their nest.
4) A few years ago, Sturbridge was home to the Wright’s Factory
Outlet. This place was fantastic. It was full of reasonably priced gimps,
trims, ribbons, buttons etc. as well as silk flowers, stencils, quilting gewgaws, fabrics and tools and other fantastic stuff. I
loved wandering around in there. When
they announced that they were closing I think half of the women here went into
a funk. I have yet to find another store
like it with such good prices. That’s
where this trim came from. I bought it
at the end and I think I bought it for purely sentimental reasons. There is almost nothing in my house that is
green. I am ready to let it go now.
5) It seems that it’s inevitable when you are going through old
boxes that old pictures surface. I found
these old pics of me that were packed among random junk. I was probably in kindergarten or first grade
in the pic on the left and around 20 in the one on the right. Man, where did the time go and why the heck
do we accumulate so much stuff?! Here's hoping that it's true that one man's trash is another man's treasure. By the way, the photos of me are not for sale.
