Saturday, August 13, 2022

For Sale

 Today is 'National Garage Sale Day' and also the final day of 'Tea in the Afternoon Week.'  I do love tea in the afternoon, or anytime really, and in my mind really good garage sales and tea go together.  Early in our married life, my husband, children and I lived next door to the original Mrs. Clean.  She would have her whole house cleaned and be outside sweeping her driveway by 8:00am, while I was still in my bathrobe, feeding my kids breakfast and trying to wake up.  I would watch her admiringly from my kitchen window.  I can admire without being moved to emulate.  She was a very nice neighbor, and we spent some time almost every summer day sitting on her front porch, watching our kids play and sipping sweet tea.  She was originally from West Virginia and made the world's best sweet tea. When you're chasing toddlers all day, you don't worry about calories. Once a year she would decide that it was time to have our garage sale (always in her super neat garage of course).  We actually did pretty well at those garage sales since we had lots of children's clothes and toys to sell.  I always marveled at what she sold.  I did keep my children's clothes clean and in good condition and they sold well, but I never resold socks.  Somehow, my kids' socks always ended up looking dingy on the bottoms (probable from running around shoeless on my un-swept driveway).  My neighbor's children's white socks looked like they had just come out of the package.  Shoppers would marvel at those socks.  She may have owned shares in a bleach company.


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