Week8 Thursday

Before I forget, time changes this weekend.  We are so lucky that we get to lose an hour of sleep.  Anyway, don't forget to change your clocks either Saturday before you go to bed or at 2 am Sunday.  Don't want anyone to be at work or church at the wrong time.

Got some new dishes, so was packing up the old ones into sets of 4 with silverware.  If I hear of anyone having a garage sale this spring they are more than welcome to these items.  Only have a price of $2.00 on them so for anyone getting their first apartment or planning on going on to school it would be a great deal.

I got 2 sets of dishes for $14.99 each (service for 4) they were origianlly priced at $79.99.  So for less than 1/2 the cost of one set, I got both.  They are a pistachio green that goes really well with my kitchen color.  It is so nice to have a complete set again.  It's amazing what we hold on to even when pieces start breaking or chipping.  Maybe because the replacement value is so much higher than we want to pay or maybe because it is a set that we like or was a present from someone.  Whatever the reason, when you get a good buy on them I say go for it.

When getting rid of things by either selling at a garage sale, donation or throwing away, it is always the hardest to do when it was a gift.  If it was from someone that you are really close to or a family member that you love, the decision to have it gone is tough.  You don't want to hurt their feelings, and yet if you don't like it or need it or use it, why keep it.  What the other person has to realize is that once they hand it over to you, it is yours to do with what you want.  There will always be a little niggling at the back of your mind about whether you are doing the right thing.  Holding on to everything does nothing except cause clutter and confusion, mostly when you only dig it out to use it when that person shows up.  So don't worry about what the other person will think, they probably won't remember it anyway.  Just hope that if you sell it at a garage sale with other people, they don't show up, buy it again, and re-gift it to you!