Long week, Yard Sale OMG! It is hard to compete with Seafair and Waling days

I spent all week taking stuff to storage with the help of Pop.  Sorting thru boxes was ok till I came upon some of the boxes unsorted from my mom's room.  I kept moving thru (didn't sort hers yet).  I borrowed a friends push up canopy and with ours I used a giant tarp and made a great space to put out all the stuff for the yard sale.  Grand total from yesterday and today in sale, $7.25, experience exhausting, goal closer to being achieved price less.

 I am going to have another yard sale next weekend with more signs.  Fingers crossed we do better, not so much competition I hope.  What ever doesn't sell has to go, so either way I am downsizing.  Would be good to get some money back on all the stuff but it is better to get rid of it.

Pre packing and getting ready for yard sale next weekend

My Pop and I are downsizing and eventually moving to less square footage.  I have a lot of art and craft stuff and clothes, as well as still down sizing from when my mom passed away 9 years ago this august.  It is hard for me to part with stuff because there are memories there.  Things hold feelings for me and that is hard to let go of them especially when the closeness I had with my siblings as a child is now gone as an adult.  Things brings me back to a happier time in my mind.

I need to look to the future for me and Pop.  All this stuff also just weighs me down and makes it hard to move forward.  Also think of all the dollars I will get for getting rid of stuff.  Got to put an upside on it, it hurt less that way.

Pop is taping up boxes and I will be going thru the sewing room with the books.  Yes I have books, lots of books.  No I am not getting rid of all of them.   I am willing to part with some.  Sometimes they sell good at yard sales, sometimes not.  My books are the embodiment of my mom.  She could devour 400 pages in a couple of hours and remember weeks later what she read.  This is where the moving on part gets harder. 

So I will keep you posted (ha ha) as to the progress of this endeavor and who knows maybe some good crafting can come from this as well.  I am stalled again.  Really just overwhelmed, but I "keep putting one foot in front of  the other and soon I will be walking out the door."