Garage Sales

I am really conflicted about giving a garage sale. While, I feel great about weeding out and recycling at a low cost some of my worldly goods, I sometimes take it too personally.

I need to get more thick skinned about the disdainful way that the garage sale shoppers paw through the tables of recycled goods and find nothing worth buying, even for two bits. Really....all of my stuff was purchased for usefulness and value. How could my offerings be examined and found unworthy? Sometimes a shopper will tell me that a $2 is overpriced and "I'll give you 50 cents". It makes me want to retort, "No, you do not measure up. It's no longer for sale". Alas, I have already selected that item to leave and never come back, so I have to let it go, even to someone with no taste for value. I do remember a large slingshot, one for shooting water balloons across the street, that never sold because I kept reclaiming it just when someone wanted to buy it.

The weekend garage sale crowd was quite thin, in spite of the good weather. Sue had tables of household goods including quilt fabric, chairs, nicknacks and kitchen stuff and a rack of clothes. I brought a Barbie Jeep, a keyboard and a large speaker/amplifier to sell for friends. I met lots of people, but business just dribbled in. The next sale.........

Thought for the day: If you take the shell off of a nut, do you say it is shelled or unshelled?