Moving Sale wrap-up

[roseleaf]

Overall, it went very well.  We sold the things that I most wanted to sell, and Charlie and Elizabeth are on the second Goodwill run with the leftovers, so nothing that we wanted to get rid of is coming back into the house.  Yay!  We made a good chunk of money, more than I was expecting, so that's good.  But here, as a reminder to myself mostly,

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[sillyliss]

I have always wanted to have a garage sale, but it just seems like so much work that we end up just giving all our stuff to a charity and being done with it. I read through all of your tips and they sound great to me. Thanks for posting them!

[roseleaf]

It is a LOT of work. We did it this time, though, because the sorting was work we needed to do before we move anyway, and because we wanted to get rid of things that would have been difficult for us to haul to charity ourselves. ;-)

I'm hoping to have an annual purge of our house from now on. Probably not always a sale, unless we have big stuff, although it would be easier with an actual garage. But a purposeful trip through the whole house and all the closets to find stuff that is just hanging out, unused. Stuff accumulates so quickly. It drives me crazy.