Community Event Week

I delivered donations to a church yard sale this week. Glad to get these items out of here. I cleaned the lawn chairs that were in the carport and picked up the yard. We are loving spring here the Dogwood festival and County fair are both this weekend. We went to the dogwood festival today and I got to go to the craft fair. Hubby went to the show n shine. So glad to have better weather and more fun opportunities to enjoy the great out doors. The scent of lilacs is lovely when I'm outside these days! Love that!

Hubby has recruited me to help in his new business he needed some one to delegate to run errands fetch parts and supplies and general go-for. Let the contracting begin! I did some errands for this that past two days when I was out and about any way. My dad was a contractor so this is not new to me.

My e-bay items did not go so I brought them back home.
Will be trying motor cycle parts next fender and muffler for 98 Vulcan classic 1500.

De-clutter mode!

We got our taxes off then did a clean sweep in the office went through papers worked on getting files purged and the filing system set up ready to go for a new year. There were files to put in deeper storage after the sale of the farm last year it was time to move some of the boxes again. Hubby was off for some dental work and had time to help me with this office stuff.

This week we are getting ready for a block yard sale. Dear daughter and family are getting ready to move and as she does she said it's double duty sorting for the move and for the yard sale. I cleared out the pool house and I'm going to be using it as a potting shed this summer.

Last weekend we got the news that our son has won the election for A.S.B. Pres. by a landslide victory! He said that he has some meetings this week in two other collages in our state. Prayers appreciated for them and my prayer is that they are able to brain storm some ideas for better safety and protection for schools collages all across the nation.

Giving E-bay a go!

I found a local movie rental store that will put items on e-bay for a reasonable fee. So I'm giving e-bay a go this week. They take the photos and ship stuff off so I don't have to run all over town to find packing materials and a ups site to ship from so it's worth it to me to try this!

The wooden decorative boxes they said weigh too much to ship so I had to go fetch them back home. Learning as I go here.

Yard Sale Or E-Bay!

Yard Sale List:

Our neighbors have recruited every one for a block yard sale.
These are great for generating 
higher traffic. 
 
Pick date for sale.
[Keep in mind higher value items for e-bay as you sort 
there is more than one way to de-clutter.]
 
6 weeks before sale: 
 
Collect donations & yard sale items.
Find out local guidelines;
is it okay to post signs and have sales in your area?
Compose add for local adds in and classifieds 
nickel shopper, penny-saver, money saver add paper 
and area newspaper.
 
1~2 weeks before sale: 
 
Clear junk out of front yard this can be done earlier. 
Clean garage carport shed etc. sweep and set up tables. 
Clean tables and move to area where sale will be. 
Buy or make signs kids can help with this!
Wash sale items toss broken things 
Get change and move sawhorses to carport put plywood near by.
 
Week of sale: 
 
Clear & rope off area 
Cover items not for sale 
Bring boxes & bags & containers out of house for sale items. 
Get electric cord ready to test appliances.
Have adding machine or calculator handy. 
Put change in fanny pack  
set up till area table store bags & papers under table 
for wrapping breakable items. 
 
Day of sale:
 
Put out signs & refreshments if you are severing them,
Get change out use fanny pack.
Take signs down! 
Or you may be getting folks at ten o’clock at night; 
my friend said this happened to her!
Get Chinese take out or order in subway or pizza so you 
don’t have to cook. Having a yard sale is hard work 
like moving but it burns a lot of calories! 
Move cars out of the way if possible so customers can park!
 
After the sale:

Call for donations pick up after sale.

Son Runs for Collage A.S.B. President

I have news! Last week I found out our son is running for A.S.B. President. We will know in a few weeks if he got it or not. He is currently Vice Pres. a junior majoring in communications.

library thing

Easter Week

Yesterday one of my finds was a flower pot that had the words violet painted on it and a painting of some violets in bloom. I have lots of these in the yard so it will be great to put one in it. On the way home I stopped by the nursery and got two fruit trees a peach and nectarine and got those planted. Now I'm trying to figure out where to put an apricot tree! It was 29* here over night and I am SO glad I put the annuals in the play house. I just got them out for some sun. It's a lovely day here and will warm up through the end of the week.

I found a couple of books by a favorite author Emilie Barnes and a wire bound journal and a planner, planner size note book plus filler pages for these at the thrift shop. I like the bigger size rings in the planner and I'd been looking for one so I'm delighted with these finds. Speaking of books I found library thing web site and have most of my books there some I've read some to read some that I'm currently reading. See link in blog title for this post.

I've been getting ready for a block yard sale the weekend after Easter is keeping me busy I"m getting "stuff" rounded up for this. I went through the books last weekend. It feels good to get progress on this! Tonight is Family Dinner at dear daughter's.