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Dorrie's Doll Diaries
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Did Uncle say 'Yard Sale'...?

 

Current Mood : Contemplative...

 

We had DUncle and DBIL over last night kinda late, so I'm getting a delayed beginning to the day. At least that's the excuse I'm going with.

 

On the plus side, Uncle has decided to have a yard sale next weekend, to get rid of the last of the stuff he's not taking with him when he moves out of state at April's end. I've volunteered to help, and he says it's fine with him if we want to sell our stuff alongside, just keep track of the money involved. I'll probably help Thursday, to price stuff, then Friday and Saturday for the sale, and Sunday, if there's still stuff to sell. He's already decided to donate the power-scooter chair to the Veteran's Administration office down the street from him, which I think is wonderful. It was Beloved Hubby's idea.

 

Currently, I'm playing 'USB Shuffle', a fun game wherein you try to match up available space on USB drives with what you wanna back up. It involves file transfers, deleting, reinstalling, and updating ! And lots and lots of waiting. I'm surprised Milton Bradley doesn't have a board game version, but I'm sure I'm not the only techie who plays the home-made original one every few months.

 

Really, though, I have three USB drives - a 1GB, a 2GB, and a 4GB. Believe this or not, the embroidery design files are the leanest, at just under 2GB. Over 32 thousand files, maybe a third are actual designs. It still staggers me. My patterns weigh in at nearly 4GB, for dolls, crafts, and people, and the various photos I've been able to recover from last month's crash top out at just over 3GB. I had the embroidery on the 4GB, along with some other goodies, but I've since wiped the 4 clean for the patterns. The 2GB also got purged, and right now, it's backing up the embroidery files. Photos...well, I'll just have to burn a back up CD for those. Or find a nice 16GB on sale soon ! Having some stuff backed up to USB really saved my bacon on the last crash, so I hope to keep them updated, and burn discs maybe two or three times a year, instead of monthly. Like I used to, until mid-2008 !

 

(sigh) I gotta stay off the computer. And that goes double for eBay. After putting in a bid for some kimono fabric and watching the auction for two days, the owner closed it - nullifying my bid and changing it from a regular auction to a Buy It Now, for twelve times my high bid ! With only about fourteen hours to go, too. I thought that, once someone made a bid, you couldn't cancel or change the auction - guess that's not the case. qqqIt was the only one of his that didn't have more than one bid, and his shipping was ridiculous enough without this crap. He's actually well-known in doll circles, but see if I ever buy or bid on anything from him again. Jerk. If your fabric is worth so darn much, don't put it on eBay with a 99c opening bid - even I know there's a good chance that's what it'll close at !

 

Anyway. I finally got to spend some time in the Lab...cleaning and finding spaces for all the junk I've accumulated in the last month or so. It's a mess in there. I'm still not done, but at least it's out of the hallway and the doorway. For now, it's all sorted, but still not stored. I'm hoping for a bit more time this evening.

 

But now that there's a yard sale coming up, I'm looking around with different eyes. I'm giving serious thought to selling the Castle. Seriously, it's just not 'me', it never has been. What I really loved was buying a $125. toy for $5. so much, I did it twice. But now that it's folded up, I know I really prefer the Fashion Plaza, and I may never play with the Castle again. So, maybe I can get at least my money back for it, maybe a bit extra, because I'm greedy. Here's hoping.

 

There's a whole buncha stuff I can ditch, and maybe make a few bucks. The last box of craft supplies I got from the Habitat for Humanity garage sale was half fulla stuff I'll never use. It's possible I can make a buck or two of that $5. I spent back, and give someone else wonderful cheap supplies, too.

 

(grin) I may have just figured out a way to make cleaning the Lab fun...

 


Posted by dorriebelle at 10:03 PM CDT
Updated: Wednesday, 4 May 2011 8:19 AM CDT

Thursday, 8 April 2010 - 9:34 AM CDT

Name: "Michelle"
Home Page: http://dashausdermaus.blogspot.com

Oh bummer about the auction.  That doesn't seem fair that people can do that, but I do think by law at auction houses you can do that because they aren't required to sell items at a "low" price.  So it may be the same for Ebay.  Oh well, I would just see it as it wasn't meant to be.  :-)

Sounds like the yard sale will be a fun way to make some cash for new lovely items.  I find purging things are a lot easier when you get something in return for it...money being best of course.  ;-)

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