So our "Labor Day" weekend was spent doing exactly that. Well, not "laboring" as in "giving birth to a baby" (yikes!), but rather "laboring" as in "working our butts off around the house".
Twice a year DW volunteers at a huge consignment sale for children's clothing/toys/furniture/etc at my parent's church. It is a great opportunity to 1) clear out everything our three have outgrown and 2) buy a lot of barely-worn clothes (especially "dressy" stuff that kids never wear out) for same. In fact, DW helped take the idea for the sale to our old church in Alabama and basically ran the sale for about 7 years there. The sale is extremely well organized and a big win for the seller (who keeps 70% of the sale price), the church (which keeps 30% and uses for children's programs)and the buyer (who gets a great deal).
Anyway, we haven't sold anything since we moved in early 2006. It takes a lot of effort to get your clothes sorted, washed, organized by size and gender, inventoried, priced, tagged, etc. Then you get to do the toys.
That would be how we spent our Labor Day Weekend. In preparation for the sale coming up this week.
The good news is that we have about 225 items to sell. While the extra money coming in will be great, the fact that all of this stuff is out of the house is even better! (We're suffering from "crap creep" around here; there is "stuff" everywhere!) Now if we can just keep from bringing toooooo much new stuff home.
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Ooooooohhhh... "crap creep". I like it. When we moved, we got rid of about 50% of our stuff. It was wonderful! I love the idea of the annual store. What a great idea!
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