Yard sale

Roll up! Roll up! Come and buy all the crap that you want but really don’t need right here!

This weekend the park is having a communal yard sale. I think we will be the biggest contributor. We emptied our storage locker last year and stuffed everything in the loft. While in Mexico we vowed to get rid of most of it, and as it happened the communal yard sale happened.

Now, we have a lot of serious stuff to sell. There are even things from the great May-din dynasty if you look closely you can see the label that says”may-din China.” So if you happen to be in the area bring lots of money because we know what we have and you will pay big bucks for it.

There are a lot of classical CDs. I wanted at least $10 apiece as they were, after all, ‘classical.’ Rosalie being the spoilsport that she, is decided on 25 cents apiece. I have no idea how we are going to become rich with that kind of marketing strategy. But, if I give in, I know it will be a lot more peaceful around here, so, I gave in.

It’s amazing how much crap you can accumulate in a lifetime, or in our case a short marriage lifetime. The biggest things to give up are the ones with emotional attachments. Unfortunately, Rosalie has an emotional attachment to everything. She did make a brave and unselfish decision to let her scroll saw go, although it’s still kind of in the family as we gave it to Gordie.

I have a used two by four for only $27; once you pull the nails out you could sell it on for even more.

I hope it doesn’t rain on the weekend as Rosalie will get soaked while I’m watching the game and I will have to listen to her complain while I’m trying to watch the Leafs beat-up on the Habs.

We may even have to give stuff away, free. But we’ll have to think about that. I’m a little disinclined as every buck earned means more margaritas in Mexico. If there’s stuff that doesn’t sell, then luckily The Sally Ann will take a lot of it. Unfortunately, they won’t take a lot of the stuff that we need to get rid of. They have caught on to used underwear and electronic cables that became obsolete at the turn of the century. They don’t even take computer monitors that stick out a foot in the rear they are only interested in the new suppa-duppa LED ones.

Anyway, we hope to make enough money from this weekend to pay for our fares back to PV. However, if we make enough to pay for the taxi from the airport to the hotel; or even the tip, I will be happy.