Friday, June 19, 2009
What if...
| By Anna Mae Peabody What if... I sold EVERYTHING in my house?  Really. I'm serious. OK, except for a few clothes, and a couple of place settings. Oh, and of course my family. There would definitely be slim pickings right now, especially considering that I sold the living room furniture 2 weeks ago. (We're sitting on fold up chairs, you know the kind that people use on their lawns or sit in to watch their kids soccer games). Hmmm, so that leaves the bedroom furniture (none of it matches), a couple of odd chairs (real chairs, though, and made out of wood!), clothes (from Goodwill), "art" (that's funny), towels (with holes in them), and dishes (covered in cracks and chips). I hadn't really thought about it until today, when I was looking through the house to see what we had left that was "saleable". I noticed that just like the yard sales we had gone to last weekend, all our stuff shows signs of use, lots of it. (I wouldn't even buy my stuff). So I've been asking myself - what do I do now? My budget is down to the minimum, I've sold everything I can, and I can't seem to get ahead. I used my $1000 emergency fund last month for a dental procedure. I need to have another $950 by August to finish the dental work. School will be starting soon, which means books and supplies must be bought. There are house repairs that will need to be done very soon, and on, and on, and on. Rather than having a "Yard Sale", I've decided to have a "Junk Sale". Oh, the process might be similar, but the prices will be lower! It might be kind of fun - until someone turns up their nose at my favorite T-shirt that I've priced at $.05 (only because it has holes in the arm pits, but it's comfy!). And everybody should recognize right away that the headless Barbie on the table for a quarter is a collector's item!  I think I might be on to something here... Labels: Junk Sale |
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