So Glad the Grands Came

 We woke up to a beautiful Spring day. The grands were so helpful in hauling Jeffrey's library from the office down the stairs to two different piles. One going into storage and one going to Accra. Jeffrey has MANY books and the kids laughed as they went up and down the stairs along with their dad to put the books away. 

Muscles used

They hauled books to the back bedroom to bring to Accra

Lily to Jayson

They had a system of handing off piles to each other for each piece of the journey

Shelves filled with books for storage

In addition to books on the shelves, four more storage boxes.

Dollar Days Garage Sale

Then they took all the "stuff" I had set aside in the living room to give away and hauled other "stuff" out of the garage to give away. Kelsi was a major help in the organization and figuring out how to put stuff out to the greatest advantage. 

We had a nice batch of people - most were surprised that every thing was a dollar or everything they could carry was a dollar. In fact, one lady was surprised that we were giving away a stereo system for a dollar though I noticed she gave the kids quite a few dollars. Some people were glad to get what they were looking for and one couple were obviously garage sell specialists. They showed me a picture of a great find that they had spruced up and found parts for a 3 or 4 hundred dollar appliance. 

I'm not sure what the final haul was for the children but they were happy. Jeffrey bought pizza; then Jeffrey, Kelsi, and Nate took the Nausin's pick-up (thanks!!!) for the last remnants of the garage sale to the dump.

In the afternoon, Redding Adams packed up their car and the things they were bringing home. I was glad the kids got to bed about a quarter to eight, so it wasn't too long of a day. Nice day for us and a great service to us. Life is good.

On an interesting note. I had no problem giving stuff away to people for a dollar, or just giving it away in some cases. But when we went to haul the rest to the dump, I pulled a few things back into the garage as I just couldn't throw perfectly good stuff away. I'm not sure why my psyche works that way. It is gone from me either way. I just wanted it to go to a good home......ok weird.