We're having a yard sale this weekend. I feel sorry for Val as she's been working like a dog to keep this thing going for the last two days. My sister and her husband live right next door and we've all been attempting to get rid of a lot of the stuff we've accumulated in our married years (and some items beyond that point). We're selling clothes, toys, furniture, computer parts, and just general odds and ends. Heck, someone even offered to buy my old "beater" car and I didn't even have it out for sale officially -- but I'd sell it since I don't really use it much.
Any-hoo...one of the things we decided to sell was the computer desk I've been using for about the past year. I bought it a year ago when we moved into the house here but it was a cheap Wal-mart special and eventually it really didn't serve my purposes like I'd hoped. Plus Val didn't really like it all that much in the end so... We decided to go last weekend to Office Depot and buy a nice new desk. It was delivered Thursday. Unassembled. You want to know the 3 most hated words in the life of a Dad -- "Some Assembly Required". Most of the time it applies to toys or bikes or generally anything you buy your kids at Christmas-time that's bigger than a Hot Wheels toy car. This time, it's my toy. I got the Workcenter and Hutch on sale and it's really, really cool. My wife actually picked it out and she has a good eye for this kind of stuff. I mean she looks at the ad and then goes to the store and looks it up one side and down the other. Me? Most of the time I'd look at the ad and say, "can we just phone the order in and pick it up" without ever really seeing it. Then I'd get it home and hate it! But we went to see it after we saw the ad and I love it! Pretty much a guarantee that I'll have this thing for about 10 years. It's not solid wood, but it's solidly constructed.
Next, we have to go and get a new Entertainment Unit as we're selling that in the yard sale too. We've had a couple of bites on it the past two days, but no one's committed to buying it just yet. I'm hoping tomorrow, othewise I won't know what to do with it. Probably place an ad in the paper. We've thought about having a follow up Saturday only yard sale in late August or early Septemeber depending on what's left after this weekend. But we might just give it to goodwill or E-bay some of it...I don't know.
Most of this new furniture we're looking at is corner units of some sort. My new desk is and I really like how it fills the space. Val and I both hate wasted space -- but we both hate cluttered space too (when we can avoid it). The new entertainment unit will be a corner unit to because of where it needs to go...this old house doesn't have the greatest use of wall space I've ever seen. It was built in 1960 so, you know, old design. People weren't as obsessed with furniture beyond beds and sofas and tables as we are now.
Well, the new desk and hutch is up. Next stop is likely Lowes where Val saw a entertainment unit she thought she saw and liked...maybe tomorrow after the yard sale is over; who knows, we'll see.
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