By this time our house in Quebec, being sold, was in turmoil as we purged and packed.
It was May and we had to be out by the end of July. Imagine the shear amount of stuff we had accumulated in 14 years of living in the same house. It was overwhelming. So we went room by room and got rid of stuff. Doantions to Salvation Army, garbsge, and then we got ready for a yard sale.
This is an art - the yard sale. When to hold it, hours to be open and how much to charge. All a huge mystery really, I know some people make their livings having pretty much a permanent yard sale. Things I thought would sell, didn't and stuff we thought was junk sold. If you are going to do this it is likely a good idea to do some on-line research first so you have a better idea of what to do than we did.
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| New Kitchen Table and Chairs - cafe style - did not sell |
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| Weird old combination electric and wood stove that did not work - SOLD |
In the end we just moved lots of it to the local donation box. It is a wonderful place, really. You drop off your stuff beside the box and most of it disappears that same day. I know that it is really not the intent of the box - the items are supposed to go somewhere and be sold. But I figure that the people that got the things really needed them.
So we got ready to leave Chelsea Quebec. Not sad to see the end of the snow. At times it was taller than me and although I am not really tall at 5 foot 5, thats still a lot of snow.
