One sale, my Tony Little Gazelle Crosstrainer, fetched $40 of that. Considering I paid close to $200 for it, I wasn't impressed. Then we had to deduct the $10 permit fee from our total, so over half a day spent out in the cold for a whopping $70. It was so NOT worth it and I don't think we'll be having another one anytime soon, if ever. Glad we advertised for free online rather than paying the $23 to advertise in the paper.
We, mainly Theresa, moved the remaining pile to the curb and picked through the things she couldn't see going in the trash to give them away. I had said that if it didn't sell it wasn't coming back in the house, so the large majority of it went in the trash. I posted an ad in the free section on Craigslist and we had a few people who responded.
Most of the items that we were dreading going to the dump were taken. Lots of things still went in the trash and I was amazed that the garbage men picked up every single thing we had piled on the curb including a huge chair. The thought that I had on the whole thing was that when you buy something then get your use out of it until it's no longer useful to you it is ok to throw it away even though it is still in good condition.
Theresa's mom works for a jewelry store, so we had gone by there to purchase our rings since we would receive a very good discount on them. I had a little trouble understanding that the manager wasn't saying that I had to purchase my ring sight unseen. He had come across like I had to rather than Theresa explaining that I could order it and if I didn't like it I didn't have to buy it.
Sometimes I get a bit flustered the way she presses me about things and doesn't fill me in. Her ring was a perfect fit, so it only needed to be cleaned and then she was done. I opted to go with the only ring I really liked and ordered it in my size. When I went into the store to try it on after it had come in, I was pleased with my decision.
The invitations list took at lot of time to type into the computer in Excel for the mail merge into Word to print the address labels. Neither of us have legible handwriting, so hand addressing them was out of the question. It's said to be against invitation etiquette to do so, but we don't really care about any of that. We went ahead and inserted gift registry information in with the invitation. We chose to do inexpensive invitations, though we were quite pleased with the way they look, since we're paying for everything for the wedding.
They only have one envelope and aren't extremely fancy. Theresa thinks it's a very green way of doing the invitations which sits well with both of us. They go out today and total around 125 guests more than the max we're allowed. Approximate 65 or so will definitely not be coming, so the 75% of the remaining who do actually show up should put us close to our max allowed. There are a few more invitations that need to be added, but for the most part they are done. Two more things off the list.
For a very long time, probably four years or more, I have been wanting a piebald longhair dachshund female. My sister breeds dachshunds on the hobby level, but has never had one available. Theresa found one on Craigslist for free. She isn't a longhair, but she's sweet as can be. Her name was Heidi, which is my estranged sister's name, so we changed her name to Daisy. I had found a Daisy Duck figure in the yard the next day after the garage sale.
She has adapted to living with us and Theresa's dog Hunter. They get along very well and play together out in the yard. I installed a doggy door big enough for Hunter to come in and the new little hot dog to as well. It helps with Hunter to have company so he doesn't look to get out of the yard. Daisy was an escape artist at her previous owner's house, so that's why they wanted to find her a new home. She's CKC registered, so we plan to breed her with my sister's piebald male once she gets his CKC registration done.
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