I need to become superwoman in the next few days. The fact that I’m even considering having a garage sale this weekend is pretty much hysterical because I am not prepared to have one. At all.
Not prepared=I have done NOTHING for this sale.
So, why this weekend? Well, apparently, my neighborhood or at least a few houses in the neighborhood are having sales this weekend and after looking at my calendar, this is the only weekend that will work for us.
And I swear to God, if you were to see my basement you would be horrified at the amount of stuff that is down there. I literally can not even work down there because it’s so full. It’s that bad. And it’s a full basement.
I have considered taking photos just to show all of you just how terrible it is, but it’s so bad that even I can’t share those details with you. I can share the details of when the doctor vacationed in my vagina with a dump truck, but I can not show you photos of my basement.
The thought is causing me to hyperventilate.
I must unload some of this stuff and I love the idea of having a couple of extra hundred dollars to put towards some bills (and maybe treat my little family to Red Robin on Saturday night. or maybe we’ll have Papa John’s. I love Papa John’s…or maybe we’ll get some good Mexican food. dangit, I love food.)
My agenda today:
-give the kids a bath
-go down to the basement and begin bringing items up to the office where there is space to get ready to sell (so much for my tidy office.)
-make lunch
-go back down to the basement and work even more. (p.s. the kids are with me and they go through everything creating a huge mess which makes me yell. a lot.)
-head back upstairs and take Racecar to his kindergarten checkup, which includes shots. (yes, I vaccinate. HOLLA!)
-my parents are coming over tonight to help Brian put new brakes on his car, I’m in charge of making dinner and dessert. Luckily, I went grocery shopping last night.
-try to clean the garage at some point during the night.
-get my You Capture post up tonight.
The worst part of my garage? THE SPIDERS. (did I ever tell you about the time I was sleeping and I felt something crawling on my face and I hit at my face and fell back asleep and woke up the next day with a dead, thick spider in my hand? I pretty much hate that story. You?)
The best part of my day? Having my parents over for dinner.
My biggest challenge? Trying to figure out when to sneak in a nap because naps are delicious.
Have I mentioned that my goal this summer is to keep my house clean ALL OF THE TIME? No? Well, my goal this summer is to keep my house clean at all time, which requires me to clean multiple times a day, but so far, the effort has been worth it.
SO FAR.
Also? There is laundry in both the washer AND the dryer and in all of my hampers.
WHY AM I SITTING HERE ON MY COMPUTER? Telling you stories? On my nice comfy couch? With a box of teddy grahams next to me? When I should be working?
ugh. Here I go.
(have you voted for me today for Best Eye Candy? Why not, man? I LOVE YOU. Remember?)
(and I posted over here today, too.)
Good Luck! I have had the worst luck with garage sales, people shoplifting from my sales. I know, what?!! My goal for the day is to get The Chicken’s room finished up-so far so good. I can’t leave the house yet to get the remaining supplies because Giggles is at career camp and I don’t think she has her key.
And your other goal is to keep *my* house clean this summer, right?
Again, if you need help, just say the word. I will help as much as my 35 weeks pregnant self can. I’ve never even attempted a garage sale because it just seems like too much work, so I’m already pretty impressed by you.
Also, “yes, I vaccinate. HOLLA!” just tested the limits of my bladder and laughing.
Also times two, I can’t believe I’ve been in your garage and didn’t know about the spider problems. I’m a little freaked out now and will never go in there again with a shop vac and/or a rifle.
Is this the world’s longest comment yet? I think it’s getting there. My students are signing yearbooks right now because it’s study hall and they have nothing to study. There’s an unopened package of peanut m&ms sitting on a desk, and I am desperately hoping that they are forgotten so I can grab them and eat them (I would eat the blue and yellow first because they’re my favorite colors, remember?). Okay, NOW I’m pretty sure that this is the world’s longest comment, but it brought me five minutes closer to the end of the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
Good luck! I’ll send you good garage sale vibes, OK! I’m having one this weekend, too. And, I really haven’t done much yet to prepare… So, time to get to work
Brave, brave soul. Especially the spiders.
We are moving this weekend and next and have to tackle our garage. Which has spiders as well. Oh, and all the boxes from when we moved in that we never unpacked. Almost 5 years ago.
Must go through them…..
Oh, Beth, good luck. I hate garage sales – mainly because they’re a lot of work. HOWEVER, several of my friends have been doing them this past month and making some good money. So…good luck. May the garage saling force be with you.
Ok, that spider story will pretty much give me nightmares because I have this ridiculous fear of spiders or bugs crawling in my mouth or on my face as I sleep. Iiick.
And, girl? I hear you on the basement and garage thing. Those are goals of mine this week, too. For me it’s because I’m moving in a month and seriously? Those boxes in the garage that haven’t been unpacked in three years? I’m thinking I don’t need whatever is in them.
Your spider story is FREAKING me out.
Good luck in the luxe awards…I love your adorable little reminders.
I would love to come to your garage sale. Email me directions, please.
Good luck with keeping the house clean all summer. That is my goal too! I am also having a garage sale this weekend. If I can get it together!?
I am supposed to have a yard sale this weekend too. I also have done nothing to prepare. This should be fun! Good luck
OH MY GOSH the spider story totally made me shudder. Ewwww….
Best of luck with the garage sale! You should at least post before and after pictures of the office.
Umm…awww…COME ON……we want the before pictures!!! (of your basement – that is.)
Every year my neighborhood holds two garage sales one after memorial day and one after labor day. I have lived here for 6 years and each year I say I am going to do it. I have had one out of the 12, lol It is a lot of work.
I have the opposite problem. I am so organized right now that I can’t find anything to put in a yard sale. I have been wanting to have one for MONTHS, but I have been pregnant and that nesting is a powerful force. So my house is cleaner than a hospital room and I don’t have anything left to put in a yard sale.
Woe is me.
I’m going to attempt to do a yard/garage sale this weekend, too. One problem. I don’t have a yard or a garage. But thankfully the condo complex I live in is sponsoring a big one so I’ll just trespass in front of someone else’s garage for awhile. I’m sure some of the old, cantankerous neighbors I live around won’t mind
Along the lines of the spider story – gross by the way – A good friend of mine is housesitting for a friend of hers & the VERY FIRST NIGHT she stayed at the house she woke up to find a 4 ft SNAKE curled up in the corner of her room! She called some friends to come over & take care of it while she stayed standing on the bed ready to scream. Her friends took care of it all right. They found it curled up in the couch & literally beat the um, crap, out of it with a shovel. Maybe you should try a shovel instead of your hand next time?
Good luck, Super Woman!!
I will see your garage sale, 2 kids and clean house and raise you 3 kids, 2 dogs, a clean house and a moving van arriving in 10 days. And a garage full of boxes. EMPTY boxes.
And yet, I sit here on my couch on the internet also.
It’s a sickness.
Our little neighborhood yard sale is this weekend but I’ll be at Turkey Run and I didn’t think it would be worth it to gather all of my junk together just for Friday…
Good luck! You ARE a superhero!
OMG you’re story of the spider will give me nightmares for WEEKS. I’m deathly afraid. DEATHLY AFRAID. I don’t blame you for not wanting to do the basement. Where’s hubby, is he your Great White Spider Hunter like mine is???
My goal is to keep the house clean all summer long, too. I ask the kids straighten up their rooms in the mornings before going out, to include attempting to make their bed. After dinner we do an hour long clean up and it’s been keeping the place clean. Thank goodness!
I feel your pain. It’s garage sale weekend in my neighborhood and I have a TON of stuff to get rid of. We had it all planned out that we (hubby and I) could both be here on Friday and Saturday. Kids were going to do a lemonade / cookie stand so they could (a) make some $$ and (b) have something to do. (Guess which of those things is more important?!) Then my 7 year old joined the stupid swim team which has a stupid meet on Friday and then she got invited to a birthday party and then it started to look like we were going to be part-time garage-saling and full-time kid running. Enter miraculous sister-in-law who offered to drive for the bday party. We still have the swim meet to contend with, but, having never had a garage sale in my life (mostly because, well, I hate them), I think a day and a half is more enough. Oh, and I don’t know how to price stuff. Apparently, however, I know how to rant in the Folding Laundry comment section. Whew. I’m exhuasted. Good luck with your sale!
You are hilarious. Seriously, I love the way your write. So honest.
And the spider story, yikes!
I had a garage sale last weekend. I didn’t do anything until Friday night at 7pm and it turned out okay. Best advice– get premade garage sale stickers? It makes it sooo much easier. I think you can get them at the Dollar Tree or something.
Hope all goes welL!
Super Mom indeed! I think sometimes moms just thrive in organized (or unorganized) chaos! Hope you were able to get everything done!
Ok, that spider story made my skin crawl…or maybe it was a spider crawling on my skin. either way, EW.
I yell a lot too, probably because my house isn’t clean. I really need to find a cleaning lady who will clean for chocolate. I would make her cookies and brownies all the time if she’d just clean my house. Hmmmm….I wonder….
that’s a lot to do.
Have you checked out FlyLady.net? I don’t do nearly everything she sets people up to do, but her system has made an amazing difference in my life. My house is pretty much clean all the time and I only spend 15 minutes a day cleaning.
Keeping the house clean every day – what a lofty goal. I should try it. HA!
Hope the garage sale goes great and it’s worth all the effort. You know what I hate about garage sales the most? The people who show up an hour before the time you posted.
Good luck Beth! You can get it all done, I know you can. I can’t wait to hear how it goes.