Yard Sale today

We had a yard sale today. All week we had the installation truck parked at our house trying to load it up with things to sell and we had it full by Friday. The kids made $12 apiece selling drinks and stuff from their tables. We made about $150, not much considering all that we sold: TV armoire, table & chairs, books, toys, videos, and bunches of miscellaneous knickknacks.

Having a yard sale just makes you realize that you need to quit buying junk. Thinking about going into the Foreign Service has really curtailed our stuff-collecting impulses. That has been a good thing. Just knowing that soon we will have to pack it all up and ship it thousands of miles is a big deterrent. It's still hard to get rid of stuff. I am kind of envious of the younger people joining the Foreign Service who do not have much to pack.

Instead of stuff, I have been buying a lot of groceries. Soon I won't be able to do that because I know that once I leave for DC, C won't be cooking very much. I can still buy clothes because we will still need those. But in the process of trying to weed through all our extraneous possessions, I do not want to shop for clothes. When I do shop for them, everything seems to look like something I already have.