One Man's Trash

On Saturday, April 18th, Dique and I had our first garage sale, or as we liked to call it, our "Moving On Sale". Merging two adult lives makes for a lot of stuff - hers, his, ours, our parents'... our garage has been packed for months and we desperately wanted to clear it out. Making some extra cash was a bonus, the real goal was getting things GONE.

We had hundreds of CDs (that we've burned onto computers and ipods), DVDs, books and kitchen items that have been upgraded thanks to the wedding registry system. Dique put out hundreds of comic books - but fear not, he only put out duplicates or issues he didn't really want (there are thousands more where those came from and they will always remain happily in the house). I put out loads of shoes, clothing that lived in storage for the last seven months and wasn't missed. All in all, we had A LOT of STUFF.

Dique was the lead on Operation Good Riddance. He posted and updated an ad on craigslist.com the week prior to the sale. He even managed to sell some bigger items the night before the sale so we could start with $44 in our pockets! I have to hand it to him, for a novice garage sale-r, he worked the crowd, and made the most money for us... all while enjoying a lovely mocha in his monkey mug.

I, on the other hand, hung up posters in the neighborhood to advertise our sale. We said the sale would be from 10am - 2pm, which of course meant we had people out front going through boxes as we were setting up at 8:30am. I am generally a pushover (you want three pairs of decent brand name jeans for a nickel? sure!) but I did hold my ground against a woman who was determined to buy the farm for $0.50, and decided to keep both the hula hoop and the old perfectly fine typewriter, because both things are cool.

When I wasn't selling my old clothes for a quarter a piece, or drinking champagne whilst hula-hooping in the street, I was taking pictures of my haircut.

I got bangs. I dig them, and Dique loves them, so I'm keeping them for a while.

At the end of the day we made $300 and got rid of at least half of our stuff. The rest we'll donate and finally we'll be able to use our garage to store stuff we want to keep. Now if only we can stick to that "one thing in, one thing out rule"... otherwise we'll be having an Annual Operation Good Riddance Extravaganza!