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It could be a good week to get absolutely nothing done!

It’s not only another day off for the kids, it’s a whole week off!  And here I am surrounded by my 5 lovely, smart, happy kids looking for something fun to do!

Lets clean up this week I say.  We have 5 good weekdays totally open.  You can go through each of your rooms, clean up the mess, pick out the things you don’t use or enjoy anymore and we can even have a garage sale and guess what...you can divide up all the money.

Well I’m not too original.  For the last 3 spring breaks they’ve had to do a major room cleaning and we haul it all off to Goodwill.  They were actually ready for this.  And bless their hearts actually got into it and cleaned, condensed, even rearranged their rooms.  It took 2 days.  Then they all worked on the all kid get together family room, cleaning, condensing, rearranging.  They went outside and pulled weeds and cleaned up after the dogs, all with a minimal amount of complaining.  Hallelujah!  And thank you!

They actually had a good week with some accomplishment, some reward, some fun.  We are not the garage sale family!  It’s not in my nature.  About 15 years ago my husband & I decided held our first garage sale.  First we slept in and people were knocking at the door.  Then we dragged out our little selection.  Two minutes later my husband was bored and so was I.  We loaded up our goods in the car.  Took it to Goodwill and went out to breakfast.

Our next garage sale went a little better, my husband got into it and actually gave away all the big stuff we had that he wanted to get rid of.  Even though we didn’t make much, he was happy not to have to figure out how to haul it!

So when I wanted to get out of this garage sale, he was gung ho!  He rallied the kids to make signs, me (kicking & screaming) to help set up, sent the kids to post the signs and drag the goods out to the tables.  We got up before daylight, woke the kids and waited for traffic.

Luckily my allergies kicked in and I had to confine myself to the safety of the house.  (anybody who lives with spring allergies in Arizona knows this is real and horrible and cannot be faked)!!!

Periodically I peered out to check on progress.  Our valuables were selling well for 25¢ each.  My ever funny, humorous husband kept everybody in stitches.  And even though we’re not good garage sales people, the kids had fun and I have memories I may actually remember.  And each of the kids came out of it with $20.  Oh well.  We got more than money out of that experience.

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