At what price?

Regarding my big in-house moving sale, Ellen, a friend of mine from Massachusetts, said, “Don’t spend your time pricing everything. Instead, say to people who come, ‘Give me an offer I can’t refuse.’�?

I like that. That will help get the dollar signs out of my eyes. It certainly comes closer to the theme of the story of the Farmer and the Hat that I like so much. http://www.heavenletters.org/hat.html

This way I might even make some people happy, AND I will be letting go of the past. Two for one.

I can see how pricing would be a hang-up. More decisions to make. “Am I asking too much? Am I asking enough?�?

Really, that’s not where I want my attention to go.

Right now I want an empty house. An empty house sounds like Heaven. It could even be the way to Heaven.

Posted by Gloria on October 25th, 2007 under these topics
Decluttering, Purely Personal, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from Jo on October 25, 2007

Love your two-for-one, “by-the-hat” plan. It guarantees a joyful, low stress moving sale!
I’m trying NOT to look too closely at my guest room/office as I type this — clutter, clutter EVERYWHERE! A bit of feng shui is seriously needed.
You’re inspiring all of us.

Reply from Joyce on October 25, 2007

I remember reading about a family that was having a yard sale. The mother let the little boy put prices on his toys and other belongings he didn’t want any more. When he got to the ice skates that no longer fit him, he asked his mother, “How much should I ask for these?” She said, “Oh, five or ten dollars.” Later she noticed the skates with a sign that said, “Skates– $5 or $10.”

Reply from Gloria on October 26, 2007

Jo, there are some great preparing-for-yard-sale blog entries coming up with unexpurgated illustrations and all. You will know what’s happening every step of the way. You just may come to the actual sale in the hopes that you can stop me from continually writing about it!

Joyce, that is such a sweet story. That is innocence for you. I hope some mother gave him $10!

Reply from Margaret Weiner on October 27, 2007

Decluttering seems to be in the air. On the subject of making people happy, I extoll Freecycle! The week of October 15, I decluttered about 7 boxes of things from my house through Freecycle, finding people thrilled to receive as a gift the things I no longer wanted to hold on to. Their delight delighted me, adding greatly to the pleasure of having free space where the things had been. For me, the things I gave away were “the past” in various solid forms (thinking of God’s encouragement to us to “release the past in all its forms”)and I am feeling freer and more open to the present without these boxes under our bed and on the closet shelves. The recent Heavenletters about unattachment as freedom are really speaking to me.

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