What We've Been Doing with Our Time

I haven't posted anything in a while because it requires some time, which is one thing we've been short on the past few weeks! We decided that it was time to start getting the house ready for the new baby. That meant major reorganization and cleaning out! Jared and his brother, Kristopher, spent the entire weekend of March 12th-14th putting everything that had been on the shelves in the garage in the middle of the garage floor, tearing workbenches apart, and building new shelves that run all around the top of the garage. Jared also has taken everything out of the attic in the garage, put in a second attic access hole, floored the remainder of the attic, and reorganized up there.

We told Adeline that the garage was a big mess, and then every time she walked through she'd say, "Hey mess!" She still does actually, but we're trying to convince her that's it's really much better now.

During all of this, Jared realized that something more than a trip to Goodwill was in order for all of our "stuff" that we knew we didn't need anymore. We needed to have a yard sale! Wow! You don't realize just how much stuff you have until you start going through everything and considering in a realistic manner if you will actually use it again! We spent the past week and a half gathering our items and pricing. We had the yard sale on Friday and Saturday. What a success!!! We advertised for it on Craigslist and Access Coweta and Jared made great signs to put out the morning of the sales. We were able to advertise it as a multi-family sale because our sisters-in-law and my mom also contributed. Thanks to the wonderful advice of my best friend Morgan and a friend of Jared's, we went from our original idea of a Saturday yard sale to also having it on Friday. Friday is apparently when the super-serious yard salers come out! All that to say, the yard sale brought in over $2,200!!! We continue to be amazed by all that sold! Our neighbors and my mom commented that they had never seen so many people at a yard sale! We sold our lawn mower, trimmer, grill (which has already been replaced by a much improved grill), patio furniture that we never really liked, DVD players, tvs, tons of DVDs and CDs, clothes clothes clothes since Jared has lost so much weight in the past 6 months, all my scrapbooking stuff, home decor, kitchen appliances and the list goes on! It's been a lot of work, but we really had a great time doing it!

Now Jared's work continues with organizing the garage. Luckily, organizing is something he enjoys greatly! He's doing a fantastic job and I have no doubt that the end result is going to be fantastic and will leave us with so much extra space!