I’ve been so busy at work this week and so tired in the evening that there hasn’t been any time to write about the weekends events.
We have too much stuff. I think I’ve mentioned this before. When the extension was built it all got stuffed into the shed. It got so bad that I couldn’t actually get into the shed without climbing onto the huge mountain of boxes. Of course, having to find something just made things worse as the boxes that used to be in a mountainous neat pile turned into an erupted volcano type pile with things falling down everywhere.
Enough was enough and I took two days off work to sort out the shed. At the end of it, I had a small pile of boxes of stuff that I could sell on ebay, a small pile of boxes to keep (which I put back into the loft), a small pile of rubbish that went into the bin and a huge pile of boxes of stuff that I reckoned we could sell at a car boot sale. This was put in the new playroom.
My parents graciously agreed to help but finding a free Sunday for both of us took some work, but eventually this Sunday just passed we sorted it out. My parents stayed the night as you have to make an early start, I loaded up the car with boxes (and couldn’t get it all in the car) and the rain stayed off.
In the morning it wasn’t raining when we woke up, but about a minute later it was. As we left it really started raining and it didn’t stop all day. No car boot sales. The two different ones we drove to (as we had gone to such effort we weren’t to be put off by one) were closed for the day and looking at the weather it was a good job too.
I looked at the stuff in the car and realised I’ve have to take it all out again, store it back in the playroom and plan another day (not easy with three children) to do the sale. I realised this wasn’t going to be very easy and the main reason for doing it was to get the stuff out of the house, not to make some money. So Gina drove the car round to the school who are having their summer fate this Saturday and gifted the whole lot to them. They were a bit stunned at the amount.
Now, this weekends mission is not to buy half of it back when we go to the fate tomorrow 
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