G is for Gunk in the the Garage, also for Gone.

CLICK ON TUB TO LINK TO MORE INFO

I can almost park in the Garage!!! Hung bikes, moved type trays (?!), tie-dye gunk, boxes for DI, pool toys, camping hullabaloo, fixed an antique-ish chair, dealt with tools, sorted 30+ egg cartons for pal with chickens, fired up the shop-vac.
Anyone available to help me move a cast iron bathtub? Better yet: Buy it!

I've heard that the Garage is a very important room in the house. It is often neglected but a lot of time is spent there. That is the case here -- especially since last February-April ('08) when +10 years of monkey business landed there. (We've listed some things on Craig's List to sell. It takes work+time to sell stuff, especially the odd antiques.)

I am passionate about "landing" our entire house before school starts. Make it work for everyone and make everyone work to keep it neat and tidy. Recently I've visited some friends, every single one of them has an immaculate house, these are creative people with busy lives. Every single room of my house is a mess. Today we are staying in until parts (hopefully many parts) of this place SHINE. Officer Mom is on duty, armed with Zipfizz. Look out.
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Later in the day... spoke to C about this tub. If we move it to the other side I will indeed be able to park in the garage. (Has it been over a year?) Anyway, I thought we could save all 350 pounds of it for the pavilion/studio I would like to build someday OR if it doesn't sell by December we could donate it to Provo's Habitat for Humanity's ReStore ...deduct it from our taxes.

Since I use this blog as a note book as well as a "Howdedoo!" here is the info I found:

Provo Utah County ReStore, HFH Of

626 N Freedom Blvd Provo, UT 84601

Phone: (801) 373-7867 Fax: (801) 373-9965 restore@habitatuc.org

G is for GARAGE SALE!

Hey WOW. I'm cleaning stuff out and have filled up our Garage! Also stuff from our office... come check it out. Saturday 26 April 2008 7:00-1:00

That is Hailey O'harrah~the Dummy. Ugh. My mum bought her for me about 25 years ago and she has been haunting me ever since. I might just keep her just to keep her haunting my kids. She freaks S out.
Charming.

I hired Marie Ricks to help me organize my home/family. (see earlier posts for more details about that.) Perhaps we really need counseling but this is a start. She is really fantastic and pointed out a lot of interesting things. One of the many things she suggested I do is get rid of half my stuff. Go to DI twice a week. Less stuff means less to clean. AMEN to that.

I was going once a week and was about to give away some nice things. I didn't grow up having garage sales. I've never had one before. Then it occurred to me that this is a great exercise for the kids. Now we are all into it. Suddenly I could throw our that 25 year old creap-o-rific doll that happens to share my first name! (I have no clue why else my mom bought me that thing. I have no NO interest in ventriloquism. When I moved out it didn't move with me. EVER.)

With new eyes I saw all the extra winter hats, lunch boxes, clothes etc. that we have stashed away. Antique things, old doors. Baby blankets that need to be (crochet) edged, that I'm not going to do. Expensive gifts that I've never wanted yet had to keep. A lot is new and I could get some money for it. In the past I medicated myself with toys, and too many toys for my children Ugh... hopefully I am growing out of that a bit.