Coming soon....a 25 cent sale!

Many of you know that I have been cleaning out the garage & attic and having several garage sales to get rid of the accumulated clothes & items that we have been packing from house to house & storing in the attic. I have had 4 garage sales over the past four weekends. Next Saturday will be my last garage sales with the items that I have in the garage. I want to get the garage reorganized so I can start parking the vehicles in there again & also create another spot where I can start going through the remaining items up in the attic. I still have a pretty full attic even after I pulled down all of the Rubbermaid boxes (35 to be exact!) with clothes in them a couple of weeks ago. I have decorating items that I'm no longer using, Christmas decorations (I have 3 or 4 different color schemes!), more books and lots of other things. They were packed away so many years ago, I'm not sure what's up there!

Anyway, I will be boxing the items up (kids clothes) and taking them to my grandma's in Sedalia. She lives on a main street (we live out just past the city limits & we don't get the traffic that houses do in a subdivision or in town) & will be having a garage sale before winter arrives. I was planing on sending the leftover clothes to my sister's place of employment in Sedalia any way. She works at a women's abuse shelter & I plan on taking the kids clothes to her to give to the women & their children who arrive with no clothes or very little. BUT before I take everything to Sedalia I will have ONE more sale here in Columbia on Saturday, August 18th. If you know anyone here....let them know. I have girls & boys clothes, lots of boys clothes! The girls have been really picked over...there are lots of nice outfits still but not quite the amount compared to the boys. I plan on having a 25 cent sale on everything this weekend except for some items will remain at a different price. I really would like to get rid of a lot next Saturday. In fact, I will be listing it in the newspaper as a 25 cent sale!

Check my blog tomorrow...I plan on posting pictures of the tables of clothes & the progress of my bathroom!

Tackle It Tuesday (Getting it All Done!)

After cleaning out the garage & working up in the attic, I discovered items that I was saving & those items got dumped into my downstairs family room. In addition to cleaning up this room I have several other things that need to be accomplished before I get up in the attic for my garage sale (yes-another garage sale) to get down items for Fridays sale. I don't have one major project to complete, instead, I have a bunch of projects that need to get done today (or by the end of the week). So my tackle my extend to the end of the week.

Here is my tackle-it-Tuesday's to-do list:

Housework:

1. Finish laundry (2 loads)


2. Pick up LR.


3. Pick up FR.


4. Pick up kitchen.


5. Clean/make salsa, etc with tomatoes.


6. Clean carrots.


7. Clean bathroom.


8. Put laundry away in bedroom.


9. Clean off desk.


10. Put away storage boxes-kids school projects, pictures, etc.


11. Clean out refrigerator.

Projects:

1. Sort teams for U8-Rec soccer.


2. Work on venues/brackets for CMSL.


3. Pull down clothes from attic-go through & get ready for garage sale on Friday.


4. Fundraising letter ready for Dance.

I think this is all that I need to accomplish before the end of the week. Wish me luck in getting it all done!

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Our 1st "Official" Garage Sale....

Okay-today is my first official garage sale in 16 years-I'm not counting the one garage sale that I had when we moved & sold mostly furniture-I don't think that counts. After a long weekend of cleaning out the garage & four days of sorting -I still have some boxes that I need to sort but I can do that tomorrow morning after we move some of the items out into the drive & I have some more floor space...

Check it out:

Everything on the four tables plus under the tables are on the sale as well. The big white thing is a sink & there is a vanity etc! Lots of stuff!

The stuff under the table is empty boxes and 2 buckets of balls-which aren't for sale!

I peeked up in the attic to see if there were things that I could easily get to & pulled down a couple of bigger items. Man, there is a gold mine up there! Can't wait to blog about what I find & show you the before & after pics.

After the sale on Saturday morning-whatever has not sold will be going to good will or to the library (donating books to them). Unless, I think it will sale on the next sale! I don't want to pack up & store anything that I have on the sale this weekend!

Wish me luck on my first sale!

Garage Update plus my Hubby's New Toy!

Here are some more updates of my garage......everything is basically out, we power washed the floor & are waiting for it to dry.

Here he is on the deck..........power washing...

My hubby has enjoyed power washing. He power washed the workbench, the deck, the garage, the house, the climber, you name it, it has been power washed. He even commented on how much he liked it! We are using my Mom & Dad's power washer...I know what I'm getting him for Christmas!

We need to power wash it before we stain it. Which is another project that I would like to get down before the end of summer....repainting the house & staining the deck.

Here are some more updates of the garage...it's really exhausting work! But will be worth it in the end..

Making Progress-My Weekend Tackle Update

Wanted to give you an update on the progress of my tackle...

We have cleared almost everything that was in this area. As you can see on the back shelf and the white cabinets...there is some organization but it got lost as I cleaned out closets. I needed somewhere to go with the items that were too good to throw away. The pile in the middle is a lot of trash.

After we get the garage empty...we are going to power wash the inside of the garage...

This will get the yuck off of the garage floor.

Then my hubby is going to install shelves like these:

Then, I'm going to go through the boxes and stuff that was removed from the garage on Monday, my friend-Tina, is coming over on Monday & Tuesday to help me! It will feel so good to the stuff out of my garage! I will vow to have a couple of garage sales each year so I don't have this big of a tackle 16 years from now!

Next will be the attic...if you thought my garage was bad...wait until you see the attic!! I have 4 sets of baby clothes, a couple of toddler beds, a cradle, 6 or more car seats...everything from the last 16 years of marriage stored up there. I hope to find some of the Christmas decorations I have been missing up there! Should be fun! Will be an adventure!

My Big Weekend Tackle It Project

This one is going to take more than a weekend but we have the weekend free with no activities so no time like the present to get started!

MY GARAGE....SCARY!

First, let me explain....we have been married for almost 16 years (on the 20th of July!) and I have never had a garage sale so this is 16 years worth of stuff (I have a full attic too!)

Scary, huh?

Wordless Wednesday

I think I need to get some film developed! What do you think? I have mentioned in previous entries about my desire to start scrapbooking again & one of the things that keeps holding me back is the fact that I have all of this film to get developed! I think there are 37 rolls that need to be developed! Yikes!

To-Do List (Week of 7.9.2007)

I just got the idea to post my to-do-list for the week on my blog. I have mentioned several times that I like the accountability of having my tackles posted on my blog so why not my daily to-do list!

Zone for the week: Kitchen-some major cleaning areas for the kitchen are: cleaning oven, clean out junk drawer, & cleaning out frig & freezer.

Monday:
1. Clean downstairs FR-run sweeper, wash sofa covers, clean off desk.
2. Clean off stairs.
3. Clean SJHs room.
4. Clean GLHs room.
5. Help CSH finish picking up his room.
6. Prepare one of my Freezer Chick's freezer meals. Made the Tuna Tortellini Gratin.
7. Clean out car.

I also washed a load of lights and darks.

Tuesday: I will have my cousins four girls today in addition to my four kiddos. We will plan to go swimming after the dentist appointment so I will need to get up extra early to get my list done!
1. Unpack CWHs bag from ODP.
2. Wash whites.
3. Wash darks.
4. CSH-Soccer-7v7-2 games in JC actually got rained out.
5. CWH-soccer "tryouts"
6. Dentist appointment-GLH & SJH
7. Prepare one of my Freezer Chick's freezer meals. Will prepare the Honey-Pecan Chicken. I am also working on the Inside-Out Burgers.

Wednesday:
1. Hair appointments-GLH, SJH & me.
2. Prepare one of my Freezer Chick's freezer meals. Flash freezing (so they won't stick together)Inside-out Bacon Ranch Burgers need to pack them in freezer bags.
3. CSH pack for ODP.
4. Soccer "tryouts."-CSH
5.Freezer Chick's meet for exchange & planning for next month.
6. Pick up from the girls being here-still working on-didn't have time with our hair appointment & GLHs dentist appointment.
7. Workout-didn't wake up early enough! Maybe tomorrow...

Thursday: (Book Club and Meet with Household Executive regarding organizing office.)
1. Wash sheets on beds.
2. Make sure CSH has everything packed for ODP.
3. Run sweeper.
4. Sweep & mop kitchen.
5. Sweep & mop bathroom.
6. Workout.

Friday:
Hopefully a fun day at the pool! Yes, we are going to the pool!

Saw this "quiz" on another blog....

You Are A Gold Girl

You're dependable and hard working. You never miss a deadline - and you're never late. You have a clear sense of right and wrong. You're very detail oriented. You get frustrated when your friends are sloppy - or when they don't follow through. You're on top of things, and you wish that everyone else was!

What Color Girl Are You?

Tackle It Tuesday (Freezer Chicks)

My tackle it Tuesday project is to complete my remaining 2 freezer meals for our Freezer Food exchange.

I am to make the following recipes:

1. Tuna Tortellini Gratin-a take on Tuna Noodle Casserole but made with cheese tortellini & Alfredo sauce.
2. Honey-Pecan Chicken
3. Inside-Out Bacon Cheeseburgers. I am flash-freezing them so I can place them in a ziploc bag without them sticking together.

I already prepared the Tuna Tortellini Gratin. I still need to complete the remaining 2 recipes. The chicken portion is rather easy-it's basically a dump but the honey sauce I have to prepare. The burgers will be rather easy as well! I just need to find time to get everything completed!

In addition to getting the meals completed.....I really need to defrost and reorganize my freezer. That may have to wait until Wednesday or Thursday morning.

My cousin's four daughters (ages 14, 12, 10 & 7 plus my four-ages 14, 11, 8 & 6!) are here for a visit and after I take GLH & SJH to the dentist, we are going to go to the pool before CSHs soccer games. UPDATE-We ended up going bowling. It was a lot of fun!

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