The sale's over

[pegkerr]

We did a little better today. We got rid of some of the larger pieces of baby paraphenalia, although Rob was rather irritated that I lowered the prices as much as I did. We also unexpectedly bought a stove. Our neighbor down the street was selling it, it fit our kitchen, it was the right color, and it cost $35.00. I now will have an oven large enough to cook a large pizza.

Unreasonably crabby tonight. I suppose it's because I'm upset that there was a lot of stuff left over that we couldn't sell--we couldn't giveit away--and Rob insisted on hauling it all back indoors to store in the basement again rather than throwing it away.

I also was not pleased that the girls amused themselves all afternoon by taking their allowance and browsing through the neighbors' yards sales, buying THEIR junk, and bringing it back home.

I live with three agents of chaos, and am losing the battle against entropy.

Peg

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

In retrospect, your mistake was not negotiating disposal beforehand. Before the garage sale, when everyone has already reconciled losing the stuff...that's the time to agree to donate the remainder to Goodwill, to hire someone to drive by at 6:00 PM and take it all way automatically. At the end of the day, when your family has had time to watch their stuff not being sold and to have all of their second thoughts, is not the time to figure out what to do with the stuff that didn't sell. They've already figured it out hours ago without you.

B