Yard Sale a Success!…? T-minus 16 Days Till Departure

How strange it is the things that people do and don’t buy at a yard sale….Things that I for sure thought would be gone before we were even set up are still sitting in our house. Yet things that I haven’t looked at in years sell like hotcakes, so strange. Amongst the things that didn’t sell, our couch and loveseat (3 years old on for $350 for the set!), a pretty well perfect exersaucer, diaper genie and booster seat, some brand new clothing items (adult and baby), Total Gym pull up bar… and the list goes on, plus the things like dining table/ 4 chairs and Ikea shelving unit that only sold in the last hour of the sale…. its seems to always be the little 50 cent things that sell. Which brings me to my next thing for the day, people are cheap! I mean we priced our things very reasonably but people want things that you paid $100 for and are selling for $25 for a buck…. like be real people! Sorry to rant, but this isn’t a flea market these are our things, our belongings, not someone else’s crap, I mean sure we are trying to sell it but only because we are moving…..ah well I guess they don’t care about that but still!! urgh! lol

As much as I was looking forward to this sale I was surprised to find it somewhat emotional this morning when thinking of getting rid of our things. The hardest thing for sure today though was giving up Dakota (our dog), our neighbours daughter is in love with her and has been since we moved in, so when she heard we were looking for a home for her she suggested taking her home for the week and seeing how it goes with her cat. So she did today, it was so hard watching her back out of the driveway with Dakota looking at us all happy, not knowing what was going on. As much as we wanted to just keep her for a little longer we knew this would be a good home for her where she will get completely pampered I am sure. As well as having some adjustment time before we leave to see how it goes. She will be missed so much, she is such a beautiful loving dog….I pray that she will live a long happy life with these people and be well taken care of. After a few tears I had to go inside, I couldn’t watch her leave…. we love you Dakota.

Now with a little more money in our pockets we need to shop for a few articles of clothing for when we get there, and toiletries. We will be listing the couch and loveseat on Kijiji and I have already taken baby articles to a consignment store (Hamme Downs by the way has gorgeous stuff if you are in Kingston!) Anything else will have to be packed or donated.

I don’t understand how we hardly have anything and the house is a disaster! A little rest and then cleaning of the house for this Momma!

P.S. I would like to thank all who contributed to the yard sale today, helping, selling and babysitting :) We are so lucky to have you all for family!!!

T-minus 17 Days Till Departure, continued...

It has just been decided that we will now have the yard sale tomorrow (Sat) instead of Sunday because Sun is calling for rain….so that means we really need to get moving now, however there is not much I can do here on my own. I suppose it will have to be done after Kaitlyn goes to sleep tonight. Hopefully she sleeps better tonight then last night, we were up for most of the night with her from 3:30 on, I think it is her teeth again, she is getting her front 2 to add to the bottom 2 and top canines that she currently has. On top of that we have all been sick with colds, and some sort of eye infection that seems to be going around (lovely, I know!) lol. Hopefully we all get this out of our system before going up north, but it has, to say the least slowed down our progress.

I am writing this in spurts in amongst playing with Kaitlyn, with no T.V. the internet is my only source of entertainment for the time being. Kaitlyn has become quite independent over the last week, we have expanded her play area to include the dining room and kitchen now, so she is quite entertained exploring. She is so funny with the things she comes up with doing on her own! She is currently without most of her toys because they have already been sent up north, so I think she is doing quite well. I can not believe how well she is walking, in just a few weeks she has become a pro. I just hope she stops trying to step on things which make her fall!! She also has a knack for picking things up which are much to big for her to be carrying, as well as blankets and towels. She is such a comedian and knows that she is funny too!

Apart from Kaitlyn’s toys missing we have also recently packed most of our clothing and have been trying to live on just a few articles each, which has been interesting… I often have to pull things out, especially with the weather so suddenly changing to fall temps. Another reason I will be glad to be done this in between time of leaving and being there. There also seems to be a never ending list of things we need to get before we leave, and no money to get it with. Ryan’s new employer Nunavut Auto, just told us that he needs to get Carhardt Winter overalls and jacket, plus a parka, and steel toe winter boots, so that is going to run us around the $400 mark all together. Luckily my brother Matt has some coveralls Ryan can use for now and we will just have to ship the stuff up when we can.

Well thats all for now, Yard Sale tomorrow looks like so when Ryan gets home we will have to make and post signs and finish cleaning and pricing! It is going to be so strange not having any furniture in the house!!!! Wish us luck with the yard sale!

T-minus 17 Days Till Departure

So this is my first Blog entry, it was suggested to me by my elderly neighbour that I write everything down about our move up north so that I can later look back and see how things progressed, weather, and changes we notice, the cost of things etc. She said she did this with family trips with her kids and they are now able to look back and find it very interesting. Although our neighbour is well…eccentric to say the least, I found this suggestion to be a good one, but decided to make it modern by of course making it live on the internet…why not? lol. So here it goes….

We are currently sitting at 17 days until the big departure, 16 until we leave for Ottawa. We are having a huge yard sale this Sunday coming and Mom, Kattie and I spent yesterday, sorting, cleaning and pricing everything, what a job! The whole basement is filled, literally. Not to mention the furniture we are currently using, and the table full of stuff in the ‘dungeon’ that is already sold to a friend. So we are neck deep in yard sale stuff, and packed baggage and bins. We also have a storage unit parked in our drive way full of stuff as well. I will be so glad to be done with this purge of STUFF, it will be nice to be travelling lighter. The other thing we have been doing is getting rid of clothing, why do we keep so much stuff we don’t use? I mean really we have had 3 garbage bags full of donation and another couple boxes for sale in the yard sale, but yet are always saying we have nothing to wear! But its true because the stuff we do have we have been wearing since high school, its either too small, faded, has holes in it….. etc… so I look forward to enhancing our wardrobe to look more like adults….I truly understand why there are still people who look like they came out of the 80’s though, it is hard to update these things….anyways, on to information about the move.

So apart from getting ready for the yard sale and move, we also had Kaitlyn’s first birthday last Saturday, that was alot of fun and it was really nice to see everyone! I really wanted to make sure that in all this craziness going on my little girl had a proper first birthday, and I am glad to say that she did, she had cake and everything of coarse. Well it sounds like my little one year old just woke up from her nap, so this blog will have to continue another time….