Oh ouch, banged my head on the attic rafter

When I bang my head, the price goes up

It is amazing just how much cool stuff is in the attic that probably hasn't been looked at for a few years. Right now I am sorting "like" things into separate areas and I have some plastic bins I'm putting things in that I may keep or at least have a second look at. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Then you have to deal with memories!

For example I found four Vintage Wizard of Oz mechanical display dolls that have never been used. They were originally sold for $185 per unit, wonder how much I should ask for them?






Also found a beautiful Hallmark tree topper from a few years ago, never out of the box. Original price was $49 and I'm thinking $10 might make it interesting to buyers.

It is kind of exciting to see some of the fun stuff I've accumulated - as long as I don't think about how much is invested in it in the first place *lol*

Declutter is moving along with some success

The attic has it's own charm..or will when it's clean

Called a reseller to come in and go through a few boxes of items that were designed to be sold and ended up with over $200 in my pocket. There is so much seasonal stuff to be sold I made the decision to have an 'in-house' sale next Fri/Sat/Sunday and sell it from tables set up in my living and dining room. There are some nice holiday and Christmas items to go and since it's cold and weather can be contrary it seemed like a logical move.
Quite a stack of Department 56 houses and accessories to be sold (I'm keeping a few of my favorites and checking out prices on eBay as I go. I also have a few Lemax Sugar n Spice buildings in boxes. So we will see what they bring.

Moved into the back attic which is the real challenge as it's pretty packed. I don't like to handle things two or three times so the indoor sale seems logical. Starting Monday we will set up the tables and bring them downstairs, price and get them ready to sell. Also will be listing on eBay depending on fragility and weight.









Tally to date from the Declutter project (including gold) $2131.00

Big TIme clutter sorting and listing to make money

Clean attics and Butterfly quilts

Slow progress the last two days. Moving into some major decision making projects. Plus had to take time out for a 4 year old's birthday party and a little Halloween
.The small front attic is beginning to look almost tolerable. Sold a book on Amazon for $20 and a box of books on Nextech for $25 but still haven't started listing the heavy duty stuff.

Spent time sorting through things bought at auctions and garage sales for reslale. Found a box of 30 hand-embroidered 18" butterfly quilt squares, plus uncompleted printed border fabric and enough plain fabric in white or pink for a completed quilt or spread (50% cotton/50% polyester). These were someone's project 'in process' and I'm wondering where the best market for them would be. Local or eBay. The embroidery work is nicely done. According to the instructions 20 completed squares would be enough for a king size bed. So there would be enough for pillows too. Would make a beautiful bedspread-butterflies are in muli-colors..

Decision for online vs local selling

Books and Magazines, what to do with them

One thing I've noticed as I sort and look for ways to eliminate the clutter is the decisions that have to be made. Originally I thought it would be simple to sort into bins and get rid of 'stuff' that way.

Blasted WRONG!!. Emotions, logic, realization that everything is not high priced gold and bah! humbug! Decisions take on an unrealistic complexity.

So yesterday I spent hours sorting.............magazines and books!! Agh! Now I go to enough Country Auctions to know that not many magazines and books bring huge prices (reality check like $1 a box-or less). So what to do?

Sorted the holiday magazines into separate piles: Tried not to angst over the really neat stuff between the pages of 1981-2000 McCalls, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day Christmas editions (you know back when a magazine had super great stuff in them to tweak the imagination and Christmas crafting?

Was only moderately successful. Today I listed the magazine on the local Nextech Classifieds at $1.50 each or make offer for the entire bunch. Parting is such sweet sorrow.

But wait!! Maybe I better go up and look through them before someone buys that one magazine from 1983 that I can't live without!!..Do you hear them calling me? Maybe it's just a ghost outside my window as it's almost Halloween. Better go check.