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20314. arkymalarky - 10/5/2006 4:36:03 AM The second paragraph was to say that you're absolutely right about the balance, so I figure we'll see what we have and then make requests for where we're falling short and I'll just post in here again after that.
We're telling people to send as many recipes as they want, but to prioritize so that their very favorites are at the top and we'll go through them in waves, first picks first, then back through for second on the forms, etc. 20315. Magoseph - 10/8/2006 6:15:49 PM Hello, everyone--I had a busy week with doctors and Flexy. A cyst on his left hand is found to be Squamous Cell Carcinoma and we are waiting for the biopsy in order to find out how much of the underlining tissues may have to come out.
Sometimes this week he’s getting glasses and life will be pleasanter when he can read. Anyway, we have a beautiful weather and I hope it lasts long enough to dry out the ground so that I can have the terrible-looking lawn mowed.
I went down to the river and already boats were crisscrossing the water at terrific speed. I’m looking for the water patrol telephone number.
20316. arkymalarky - 10/8/2006 6:48:31 PM Please give him our best and let us know how things go!
I'm about to go out and wash my car inside and out. It's filthy. Bob's weedeating. 20317. judithathome - 10/8/2006 8:50:51 PM We're clearing out the garage and storage shed and pricing stuff for next weekend's garage sale. 20318. arkymalarky - 10/8/2006 11:01:48 PM Ooh, a garage sale! Wish I could come shop. 20319. alistairConnor - 10/8/2006 11:29:25 PM I can imagine the sort of fabulous stuff that Judith will be letting go for nearly nothing at her garage sale. (well no actually, it's probably beyond my wildest dreams.)
I need one like that. We have been doing "vide-greniers" around here in recent weekends, but there's not much interesting stuff to score. Not an affluent area, mostly just honest to god junk. We need to go and sniff around where the rich folk live. 20320. judithathome - 10/9/2006 12:08:48 AM We have honest junk, too.
But a few things I found in this foray were sentimental...like a note my son wrote me when he was 10. And a letter from a woman I admired greatly thanking me for making her day brighter by some little gift I'd given her in 1968. And a fan letter from a woman who included a copy of my letter to the editor from 1976!
I also found my old sketchbook from junior high and a book of sketches I'd done in the 60s for carnival booths at my son's school.
Also, a 1930s lady's mirrored compact that looks in mint condition complete with little satin bag. I decided not to sell it but to carry it in my purse...every woman needs a fancy mirror in her purse!
We're going to sell an early 1950s television console that is mahagony and that my brother in law removed the ancient TV from and tried to turn into a drinks cabinet...I hate to part with it because it was my family's first TV but as Keoni said, there is no room for it in our house and someone can actually use it for something, which we can't. So, it goes in the sale. Also a antique oak rocker...and FORTY ONE golf clubs! 20321. SnowOwl - 10/9/2006 6:54:26 AM Arky, am I too late with a recipe? I could send a pavlova recipe, since it's the closest thing to a national dish here that you could find the ingredients for easily. 20322. SnowOwl - 10/9/2006 6:57:01 AM I wish I lived near enough Judith so I could donate a few more dozen golf clubs to her garage sale.
I'm sick of storing my adult children's gear, when then live overseas and are unlikely to ever return here to live!
However, every time I mention throwing anything out, or selling it, I get greeted by a chorus of "oh no, you can't do that". So my basement is loaded to the gunnels with kids' junk. 20323. alistairconnor - 10/9/2006 9:40:36 AM Ah well yes, I did that to my parents... actually I left my junk in my own house, then had my parents sell it for me... insult to injury.
Have you done the Big Trip yet, Snow? 20324. prolph - 10/9/2006 10:43:28 AM Being an insomnniac I watch a lot of tv. I spend a lot of time at HGTV
(home and garden) so I learned tonight tjat there is a 450 mile garage sle in the south, some interesting things and some trash bit many good
quilts, Apparently folks come from far away. Perhaps you garage sale folk
could form a tour, 20325. Jenerator - 10/9/2006 1:16:06 PM I have found that the garage sale pros make the rounds early, so I suggest setting up shop around 6:30 am, Judith.
At the last garage sale we had, we made $300 before 7:00 am. 20326. judithathome - 10/9/2006 2:49:08 PM Jen, we've done tons of garage sales and we're always set up by 5:30 including having a thermos of coffee and styrofoam cups for people. 20327. arkymalarky - 10/9/2006 4:36:35 PM Hey Snow!! Great to see you! You're not too late at all! We'll be absolutely thrilled to get it.
How were your travels?
20328. arkymalarky - 10/9/2006 4:38:13 PM Is that Canton, Patsy? (I don't know--I've never been)
I love HGTV. 20329. judithathome - 10/9/2006 4:55:11 PM Patsy, I saw that show about the 450 mile garage sale...I thought some of their prices were outrageous, though. They are using the novelty of that sale drawing people from all over the country to gouge people on some of those prices.
And that idiot woman who was host...she encouraged that sort of overpricing by giving values to that stuff that were geared to NYC and the west coast. Very overblown, in my opinion.
Like the "Victorian" towel rack with the needlepoint that she wasn't even sure was vintage...she STILL valued it at a price as if it were vintage. Insane.
I am going to organize our village next year to have a village-wide sale; didn't have time to get it together for this year. 20330. judithathome - 10/9/2006 4:56:49 PM Arky, this was a sale from Alabama to Kentucky...along a highway that runs 450 miles from the starting town in Alabama to the ending town in Kentucky. 20331. judithathome - 10/9/2006 4:57:18 PM Ooops...meant to add, it makes Canton look like a yard sale. 20332. prolph - 10/10/2006 3:17:21 AM jah, A village sale sounds great. Were I portable I woud come. 20333. Magoseph - 10/10/2006 1:38:12 PM Please give him our best and let us know how things go!
Thanks, Arky.
I miss Mac very much.
A couple of years ago, I was talking garage sales all the time, but now I’m thinking of only big items, such as furniture, appliances, exercise equipment, machinery and such…The small stuff is put out every Monday to be crushed in the garbage truck. A decision about discarding the big stuff will have to wait until next spring.
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