Holy Moley, I’m overwhelmed right now.
The yard sale from hell is this Saturday (PRAY FOR SUN) and our house is COVERED in yard sale items. They are all boxed up because we have to carry them to the street because our apartment is not ON the street. There are also two clothing racks in my living room, along with four card tables - all for the yard sale. We havent even begun to price or make signs yet. AH!
Where there are not boxes and clothing racks for the yard sale, there are boxes to be moved to the house. The trick is, trying to keep them separated so that yard sale stuff does NOT get moved to the house. I would have postponed packing for the move until AFTER the yard sale, but since we’re selling a crap-load of furniture, I have to box up the stuff on or in the furniture before the yard sale.
I’m no where CLOSE to done with that yet.
MrZoot is going to use the time that we’re having the yard sale, to paint the main areas of the house. Of course, that was assuming I would have taped and put down plastic by now. Which I have not done. I need to do THAT before Saturday too.
All of this has allowed me to squeeze exactly ONE household chore in a day. And that has been cooking. So, the house is a mess, there are at LEAST five loads of laundry that need to be done, and we’re almost out of toothpaste.
Needless to say, if it rains on Saturday? I’ll be the girl they’re carting off in the straight jacket mumbling about moving and boxes and painting. At least they’ll take me to a place with boxes, right?
Take a deep breath and relax girl! Everythig will be ok. If it rains, postpone it till next weekend. You can not get carted off in a straight jacket, what would Mr.Z and ‘lil Z do with out you?
Well, for one, karma has to be on your side. For two, you are wonderful, and MrZ will make sure that you get sent to a spa instead of straightjacketed. Cos he’s a doll like that.
Hugs, pretty lady.
Boy do I know how you feel!! Our moving date just got pushed up by a week…meaning I actually have to like start packing. Plus I am separating for two garage sales that are both tomorrow. We need more hours in the day…or more vacation time from work.
Garage sales are such a pain, I want to do the self service garage sale where people just take what they want and leave the money in a jar. Don’t even care if they don’t leave the money as long as they take away the stuff!
It will be over before you know it! Hang in there! We just did the garage sale thing last weekend. It was a pain in the ass BUT we made five hundred bucks. So it was kind of worth it.
As to the household chores, I learned to wash clothes when I was 9, so LilZ could be trained in that area.
However, I’m sure the men are busy with other chores too.
Now wait a minute. You need to get the men to do all that work. You are in a delicate condition and should be resting on the couch eating bon bons.
I just had a yard sale and moved into a house, too! Oh, what fun you are in for, missy! Get THIS……the town I moved out of PROHIBITS signs posted on the sides of roads, on telephone poles, etc. The police and I had quite a cat and mouse game going. I’d put up several signs. They’d take them down. This went on for two das. I was not about to let them beat me out of yard sale customers which = MONEY. It sucked. But the sale went well, regardlesss and we are all moved into a beautiful two-story house on a LAKE! Life is good. Hope your sale and move go well!
It’s the magic of purple tape. Slap a bit of purple “painters” masking tape on anything garage sale then you don’t have to keep looking at/in boxes all the time trying to remember if they are “heirlooms” or “$1.00 takes the box” stuff.
Random assvice from a devoted lurker.