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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. 20334. Ms. No - 10/10/2006 5:49:08 PM Ah, garage sale.
I suppose I shouldn't even say anything since I've been talking about one for years now and not having one and meanwhile the stuff just piles up. My friend is going to come help me shoving furniture around and hanging pictures etc. She loves to do the home decorating thing and I need someone to motivate me otherwise I'll spend the next six months shuffling between stacks of boxes.
Finished putting together the computer desk last night and so now I have to rearrange the living room in order to put it in the correct corner. I'd actually like to stay home and do that today, but I'm working for my friend's theater and her business manager is one of those folks who just isn't comfortable if there isn't someone around to do work just in case.
I mean, seriously, I can't think of anything that needs to be done today except busywork and they're in danger of going over my hour limit this week ---- hell, they've already got me working ten hours a week more than the maximum they thought they'd need me when they hired me.
And the thing is, it's just lack of organization and prioritizing skills. Not my friend ---- she's the artistic director and really just wants to stay away from the office stuff --- but her managing director isn't really suited to the business-y end of things in a lot of ways. He's an absolutely lovely person and I enjoy being around him, but he'll have a major budget review thing that he's got to produce for a meeting and he'll put down what he's doing to make up a form for inventorying concessions. It's like he just has no concept of what's important.
Plus, he's kind of slow with the software. Not horribly slow or anything, but I'm about five times faster and it's frustrating for me to have him practically make the damn form for me while he shows me what he wants.
Oh, and did I mention that none of their season ticket info is computerized? They've got 140 Season Ticket Holders and all the records and reservation keeping is on paper. It's incredibly inefficient.
So I'm putting together a database for the whole thing in my spare time. There's no reason one person can't run that office and then they could just have a "Head Usher" or something rather than an actual House Manager.
I'm out of there after Nov 5th anyway ---- I had promised to help out through the run of their first show because everyone who runs the business of the theater is performing in the current production and they were just short staffed. I can't work this many hours and go to school, though and I want nothing to do with their Christmas show which looks like a gargantuan task of reservations and performances.
It's funny, but I have no desire to go back to the theater as an actor or owner. I might still like to direct again someday, but mostly I resent time given over to the theater these days. 20335. judithathome - 10/10/2006 7:23:38 PM As a season ticket holder with two different theatres, let me assure you that your time working at these thankless tasks is greatly appreciated! 20336. Ms. No - 10/11/2006 7:43:29 AM Oh, the patrons are great --- especially season subscribers. It's a really warm relationship and they're all lovely to talk to. Also, because most of them pick their dates ahead of time it's one of the easiest things to deal with.
I just feel like I've been thrown back into the stone ages because nearly nothing in this office is computerized and I end up wasting so much time chasing down different pieces of paper. Eeek!!
I've set myself the goal of getting them as streamlined as I can in the time that I'm actually there. I may continue to give them 5 or 10 hours a week even after this show, but only if they're willing to use me for what I'm good for. Any kid could set up the theater and act as usher and concierge, but for the other stuff they couldn't afford to hire anyone with my skills.
I'll take a bottle of wine over to my friend's house and chat her up about this stuff. I think she'll be thrilled. She's been trying to be only the Artistic Director for over a year now but keeps getting dragged back into the office because she can't get the right skill-set in there.
Which when I read back over it sounds just arrogant as hell, but seriously, what they need isn't all that special it's just hard to find working actors to fill those positions and that's been the bulk of their hiring pool. Actors act because they don't want to run business offices.
She's my friend and they're doing a really good thing there. I want them to succeed and time wasted is money wasted which is bad news for a non-profit outfit. They're bringing shows to town that nobody else is doing --- ordinarily you'd have to go to the Bay Area for this stuff, they deserve to do well.
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