Imagine this position I am in. As I have mentioned, I assist others to unload their items when they are moving away. Estate Sales/Garage sales they are commonly called. This provides me with first dibs on household after household of items.
When I first started the business, it was all about satisfying those seeking items, […]

Sorry I have been …. absent. Truly I came back this quickly, since YOU, my fans, have sent a barrage of emails begging me to continue. I know these blogs can be quite addicting
Our household has been taken over with Spring Cleaning. This is not a small job (even if […]

Not long ago we hosted an open house in our apartment. In addition to whoever came around, there were about a dozen teenage boys, experiencing both their Freshman year of college, and their first serious amount of time away from home.
There was a LOT of wine available on the table.
One boy […]

What’s a girl from the ‘burbs supposed to do when she is uprooted from her spacious home and property (yes, a place where home and property mean 2 different things), and placed in an apartment that could fit into her former bedroom of said location?? It usually happens that living in a desirable city […]

I wish I could say that I had a thought to add on my last blog. While that is not entirely untrue, it is due to Another death - this one of my Mother In-Law. I actually found out she had passed not long after writing last weeks blog. My Grandmother’s death was 2 […]

My Grandmother passed away a week ago. I was in 3 states in 5 days, traveling a total of 40 hours. Yes, 40 hours. 12 hours were in a car from state to state, the rest in air. Ok, so I’m tired.
Last Saturday we expected our relatives to meet up with us for […]

ok so I might be wrong….
However, look around you - this is what I see:
People are moving so they need to sell their items and buy stuff in their next location.
Couples are getting married and setting up a new house.
Couples are getting divorced and SOMEONE has to go out and get themselves set up […]

I could offer lists of ways to have a successful moving sale. And I will… at some point. For now I just wanted to mention the 2 most important ways to guarantee the greatest showing of people, and receive the best prices.
These suggestions are married in that it is almost impossible to have one […]

So a nights sleep + a week.
At first I loved having this bedroom set in my empty living room. We had an open kitchen and a very long living room, with bay windows overlooking the forest. I would sleep in this bed at night and pretend I was in some awesome studio apartment, […]

One of my first real commitments to this new business I was trying to get off the ground was the purchase of a ‘household’ of furniture another couple was selling. Luckily my Mom was in town, so I had someone to hit up for the cash. The plan was that I while I was […]