I've been in a bit of a nesting mood for the past few weeks which has led me spend countless hours of my down time digging through my closet, cleaning out drawers, and unloading packed shelves. To some this may seem like a tedious task or perhaps just a headache, but for me its fun and most often leads to a therapeutic session with an ample time for reminiscing, soul searching, and unloading burdens.
While I do love organizing, relocating, and sometimes parting ways with gifts, treasures, and junk that I've stored for too long, I love looking for new items to fill the newly available voids in my closet, drawers and on the shelves. Thankfully, I tend to do more "window shopping" than actually purchasing which my bank account thanks me for often. The term "window shopping" might provoke your mind to think of a sidewalk along a highly known street that holds the box numbers to some of the most exquisite, ritzy stores known to man, but that's not my kind of "shopping without buying" scene. No, not even close. You'll only be smelling musk and wiping the dust off your hands in my favorite shopping locations which you can often be led to with the help of only a poster board, permanent marker, and a wooden stake. Don't act like you've ever been driving anywhere on a Saturday morning and NOT seen those neon posters in the grass that proudly proclaim "BARGAIN" in bold letters spelling out... Y A R D S A L E!
Yard sales are the one place you can go to find everything and anything that you ever or never wanted. You know that coined phrase from Forrest Gump that goes like "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get"? Well, I say "Life is like a yard sale; you never know what you're gonna get". The fun part of the yard sale is that there are new things, old things, broken things, and, well, things that you can't even identify. If you don't see what you're looking for you can't just waltz up to the owner and ask to see this season's catalog and order the item you've been looking for, instead, you have to substitute it for some other quality item at this yard sale or go on to the next one to see what they have to offer. Furniture has become the "treasure" that I'm drawn to at yard sales, antique shops, and second-hand stores. However, I don't exactly have a "need" for furiniture at this particualr moment, but hey, what's wrong with looking.
This brings me to the point that I can't just subscribe online to a yard sale and create a wish list of all the things I hope to buy one day. It just doesn't work that way. I suppose I'll just have to settle with the yard sale wish list I have in my head.
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