It's times like this I wonder why I haven't retired from doing yard sales. My heating pad is on the highest setting and the warmth is soothing my aching back. The doses of Zyrtec and cough medicine will soon mask my allergy ailments from sitting outside during two 'high tree pollen' days. And Advil will kick in and relieve the extra aches and pains from cleaning out, setting up and and running a two day yard sale.
This yard sale had sunny, cool days and the usual funny moments. Like the customers who jumped when the Sully plush toy talked to them. Or the couple who wanted to give us rock bottom price for all our books and one of them was wearing a McKay Used Book Store tee shirt. And the older gentleman who bought the spiffy hat even though his wife told him it was too small for his head.
Retiring from doing yard sales would be a loss of an annual purging for profit and taking control over ''stuff' instead of 'stuff' controlling me. Though I have passed the yard sale baton onto my daughter and her neighborhood, I feel like she still needs me until her daughter is old enough to step in. But the biggest loss of all in not doing our yard sale would be the loss of quality time with my three wonderful daughters and grand kids.
So probably I will postpone retiring for a few more years. Surely when the next yard sale time rolls around the memory of how old I feel right now will have faded. Yard sale warrior will rally to do it again!
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