Clouds

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky”.  Rabindranath Tagore

This is a lovely quote that describes my circumstance perfectly! I have been hard at it trying to get out of my house and have it ready for rental by September 30^th! Three garage sales later, a large donation to Family Thrift Store of Athmar, 50 trips to my new dwelling, 45 storage runs…I still have stuff in the house. Safe to say I have way too much stuff! However, things are finally starting to fall into place. I have the house staged for pictures to be advertised to renters and even a potential renter already!! Of course with all the rain fall, my maintenance guy is behind in work and needs some more time to finish a few more projects but I am feeling slightly relieved and accomplished for the moment so I’m just going to ride that wave as long as I can! This wave will be at least a week longer….as I am headed to Syracuse, NY today to visit old friends, new friends and make friends! One of the instructors I have previously trained with has an incredible wife that started an online fitness group of 20 women. I was lucky enough to be invited to join the group. The ultimate goal is to increase everyone’s fitness by educating everyone and building up the group. This has been a bit difficult for myself since I live in Colorado and not New York, but today I fly out to join the group in the finale…the Finger Lakes Mud Run! I’m very excited to be a part of this event as well as get out of town for a few days!

Garage Sale/Moving Sale, It’s all for sale!

In my 29 years on the planet and 8 years of being a home owner, I’ve never had a garage sale. This past weekend changed all that. We garage saled like maniacs! I’m so fortunate to have the most marvelous friends and family. I was told by one of them that they’ve never seen so many people come and help out at a garage sale. Boy am I glad they did, I was overwhelmed and underprepared!

My 86 year young grandmother moved from a 2 bedroom condo, to a one bedroom apartment. Needless to say, she did not have enough room for all her precious things. When I say precious, I mean 10 million glassware pieces! Holy cow batman! So not only do I need to downsize all my belongings to prepare for my departure in January, I am also responsible for selling the excess that my grandmother had. Excess might be an understatement…. How about overload, overkill, surplus, excessive, superfluous….you get the point. I mean seriously, I counted 15 candy dishes at one point. This from the woman that does not love candy! She does however love wine, so can you imagine how many sets of wine glasses there were for something she did love? Yea…

All in all the garage sale was a success thanks to all that helped me. I might have been suckered a few times into some low ball prices, but hey…that is the name of the game and if you want things gone, then sometimes you just need to go with it.

I have enough stuff left to do another sale next weekend. This time I’ll be slightly more prepared for all that is in store for me, like fast talking prices, wheels and deals!