Heart Hope by Olga

Getting ready for a garage sale can be a monumental task. Have you ever noticed that going through each drawer, closet and cabinet not only takes time and effort to determine what to keep and what to get rid of, but it makes a big mess before you get things straightened back up? Our neighborhood is having a garage sale in a couple of weeks, so I have been methodically cleaning out different parts of the house. Sometimes I question myself by thinking why did I ever think I would need this? Other times I wonder how I got so many dish towels or other objects. And then there are the tools…why do we need to have so many screwdrivers when we really only use two? The piles of “trash and treasures” are growing in our garage awaiting the day of their departure from my home only to be carried off to another one which probably doesn't need them any more than I do. Our lives are similar. There is a lot of junk that that takes up our time and energy. We are told in the Bible that we need ...

All garage sales are not created equal. In Texas, they are big, with lots of stuff, in Mississippi there are treasures to be found, but in Colorado, they tend to be small since people are generally not big collectors of things due to space limitations. Garage sales, estate sales, junk sales, or yard sales, no matter what you call them, they usually have certain elements in common. You can almost always find some kind of fitness items (which were bought at another garage sale when you thought you were going to get fit), vases from the Valentine, birthday and anniversary flowers from the past year (which no one else needs either) and wedding gifts that you didn’t want or need in the first place (no matter whether you got married last year or have celebrated decades of marriage). Now I happen to love garage sales; not going to them, but hosting them. If I sound a bit weird, let me explain, it is not because I love to clean out closets and get organized, but because I enjoy the people who ...