The Garage...Round Two

It's Friday evening and PIZZA NIGHT. We have pizza every Friday night, homemade from Wal-Mart. We generally get a pepperoni pizza and then add mushrooms to it. For the price we can't get any better, thin and crispy.

Tonight we will be mapping out a strategy for tackling the next section of the garage. We have divided it into 9 sections. Last week we tackled the recycling area of the garage, Saturday and Sunday we will delve into the next quadrant and tackle that.

It's a slow process. We have a big trashcan that the city provided and they pick up the trashcan with a big motorized arm on a truck which dumps the trash and shakes the can before setting it back on the curb, it's operated by a single person. If everything is not in the trashcan but out on the curb beside the trashcan the city will not pick that up and will have to wait until the following week for pick-up. That is why the process is slow.

Saturday morning and coffee in hand on the patio. It's already warm outside and only going to get hotter. More "stuff" pulled out of quadrant 2 this morning. Saw a funny sign yesterday at a garage sale. GARAGE SALE... STUFF FOR SALE! Yes, I guess we all have "stuff," and I sure don't need someone else's "stuff." I have enough "stuff" to get rid of myself.

Just found a plethora of children's coloring books and dried up markers, old crayons and trinkets a little girl would love to have. What children's treasures have I discovered? In the 5th grade my youngest daughter participated in an invention fair at her school. Her invention was children's house slippers with little flashlights in the toes. Everyone who saw them thought it was a great idea. A year later they were on the market but patented by someone else. The following year she made a sweater drying hanger by attaching telescoping antennas to a heavy duty quilt hanger. We still have it and use it. It eliminates the shoulder bumps and the sweaters dry beautifully. Once again someone took her idea and year later was using her idea but made in plastic and selling them on the home shopping channel. So if your child or grandchild comes up with what seems like a great idea don't let it pass you by.

I have a whole box of decent toys and trinkets and will set up a children's table and sell the items for a nickle apiece at the garage sale in August. I have one of those Shark Steamers and will hit all the items with a shot of steam before I put them out for sale.

I really hate to throw certain things away but in this case it is a must, a whole box of sheet music. It now smells like grandma's wet basement. However I do have the Chorus books to the three operas that I sang in with Tulsa Opera. Those I might have to hang onto a little longer. Dave use to belong to Rotary and we found a whole box of stuff from those by-gone days, so out it goes. Am I getting ruthless yet?


Christie and I just got back from taking a whole load (the back end of the suburban) of recyclables to the recycle station. More stuff gone. I can now see a portion of the floor of the garage.


Tomorrow we will tackle the stack of boxes that have been saved, I want to get to the chest of drawers that is behind them and unload the drawers that are full of magazines


See ya out there...