It's been a long Declutter day :o(

Anticipating the new day and adventure into a major declutter project

Right now I am sitting here almost too tired to go to bed and wondering if a night's sleep will refresh me enough to bounce out raring to go in the morning. "Raring?" um, I think I would settle for creeping out of bed and getting dressed+ ! :o) But it will be fun to see what this big declutter project brings by tomorrow evening at 7 pm. I brought down Mr. and Mrs. Santa window display units this evening. Ohmygosh!! They are even cooler than I remember. Parting is going to be the pits. But I have a solution. I'm putting a BIG price on them and if they don't sell--well they are going to be part of my Christmas display this year. *lol* Mrs. Santa knits while Santa holds the yarn and bends toward her. Santa is about 4 ft tall.


Found this great looking thing and traced it through the patent number: It is a mixing jar by the Hazel Atlas Glass Co. circa 1930. Some were used to make malts in drugstores but this one has wicked prongs on it and I suspect it was used for crushing ice.

Austin (4 years old) and his mom will be over in the morning to help with more getting ready. Can you imagine a 4 year old in the middle of all this stuff? Guess I better get to bed so I can see what other treasures we can get out of the attic. The garage and basement are done!!

Declutter Yard sale is hours away

Okay one more day to go!!!! Are we ready...Nope!! But working on it

Tomorrow (Friday 1 pm) started the entire event. I'm telling you this is the grandmother of all garage sales!! Fortunately the weather is beautiful so we are moving a lot of it outside.

These are embroidered and cross-stitched quilt pieces. One box has 15 yards of backing fabric. Lots of cross-stitch and embroidered samplers. Really nicely done.


A table full of Fire King and Noritake dishes. An entire batch of Fire King over
60 pieces for $10. You can tell I don't want to bring these back in the house. This is a downsize, get rid of, don't take any prisoners kind of sale *lol*

We are working at a steady pace but are only about half way through the process. Still have a 1930's vintage, maple chair with stool (one of the first recliner type chairs), a 1940's drum table, a Dell p713w combo printer ($30 almost new) yet to be added.

The front porch is beginning to look like a yard sale in process:

Some things you have to think about and I have a pair of 50 + year old animated window display Mr/Mrs Santas that were window displays when we had a the flower shop. They are going to be sold!!! Pictures tomorrow.

These early sales are fun

Tables are filling up, the Declutter Project is on a roll

It helps pay for the advertising for the Huge Indoor Attic cleaning sale!! Just put an ad in the area newspaper and on the cable channel. The sale is for three days. Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

The real progress is bringing stuff downstairs and starting to stack the tables.

There are some pretty cool cross stitch and sampler pictures, one is dated 1934. The one on the back of the table to the right is the Lords Prayer and vintage. There is a beautiful Millennium Nativity (new) in the blue boxes. and some Hallmark bells for 2007/2008 new in boxes too. On ledge is 30 cross-stitched quilt block and some vintage linens including a child's gingham apron.

It is interesting what dollar value can be found with a little research. I found a 3.4 oz full bottle of Gio by Giorgio Armani. Checked it out on eBay and it's selling for $90 to $100 a bottle!! Hmm, I know I won't get that much for it but I'm sure I'll get more than originally planned I'm putting $45 on it.





Finally brought the boxes of books down. There is a boxed set of Home Repair Encyclopedias by Time-Life and a boxed set of Gardening books by Time-life too and some wonderful plant and garden books.


Oh and did I say I had Christmas village houses and accessories? How about this Lemax Sugar n' Spice house. You know even one would make a great display. I guess there are about 25-30 more houses. :o)

I am so excited this is exactly the kind of sale I'd love to go to!! I welcome emails: danse@media-net.net or calls 785 483 6300 if there are any questions.

Now back upstairs only 8 more tables and the floor to stack!! Wanna help? I can use all the help I can get *lol*

Okay, I admit I lost something in the mess

Losing things in plain sight

I am one of those people who can lose something in the middle of a mess and not see it-even if it's right under my nose. Clutter absolutely boggles my thought processes. So you can imagine what it's like to lose something in the middle of a big cluttered, messy, no end in sight piles of junque!

This morning I lost something extremely important and if I don't find it I may not survive this big indoor attic cleaning sale. I can't quite remember where I was at when I realized it was missing but I believe it was in one of the boxes I was sorting through yesterday.



It could have been back under the eaves where I cracked my head on a beam yesterday. I know my entire family is wishing I could find it because they know how rattled I get when I lose something important. I can wander around for days in a confused fog.


*Sigh* I'm going back up to look again and try to be patient and retrace my steps so I can find it and get back to work.

What did I lose?
My sense of humor!!! Did you see it laying around anywhere? :o)