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Garage sailing...
Apr. 9th, 2011 05:50 pmOr "sale-ing," as the case may be. The house is very near empty, so almost any good deal out there is welcome.
But not just any old thing. One place we stopped at was selling a fairly hefty barbeque grill—a little old, but of substantial size and operable—for $30. If we were going to stay for the summer, it would probably have been a no-brainer, but as a patio decoration, even $30 was too much.
We picked up a sizeable mirror for $10 (replaces the one the tenant broke), a fairly substantial rug for the living room for $100, and an IKEA rocker and footstool for $25. (Then we went to IKEA to see if we could find a twin, but succeeded only in finding the rocker frame, sans cushion or stool.)
I've started to sort the books downstairs, into more piles than I had intended. One pile is for donation to the library. Another, of necessity rather small, is to take with us back to Pagosa. A third is for placement back on the shelves upstairs. A fourth group consists of a number of books on Russian literature, mentioned yesterday. The fifth (and last) group is for immediate discard. These books consist of books that are falling apart and of the roughly quarter ton of language texts that my mother had collected over the years, I suspect as sample copies from publishers eager to sell textbooks.
At odd moments, I'm distracting myself by getting reacquainted with a circular slide rule that I found downstairs.
Cheers...
But not just any old thing. One place we stopped at was selling a fairly hefty barbeque grill—a little old, but of substantial size and operable—for $30. If we were going to stay for the summer, it would probably have been a no-brainer, but as a patio decoration, even $30 was too much.
We picked up a sizeable mirror for $10 (replaces the one the tenant broke), a fairly substantial rug for the living room for $100, and an IKEA rocker and footstool for $25. (Then we went to IKEA to see if we could find a twin, but succeeded only in finding the rocker frame, sans cushion or stool.)
I've started to sort the books downstairs, into more piles than I had intended. One pile is for donation to the library. Another, of necessity rather small, is to take with us back to Pagosa. A third is for placement back on the shelves upstairs. A fourth group consists of a number of books on Russian literature, mentioned yesterday. The fifth (and last) group is for immediate discard. These books consist of books that are falling apart and of the roughly quarter ton of language texts that my mother had collected over the years, I suspect as sample copies from publishers eager to sell textbooks.
At odd moments, I'm distracting myself by getting reacquainted with a circular slide rule that I found downstairs.
Cheers...
