Freak Show
My
basement was an absolute freak show. I
kid you not! It was the scariest thing I
have ever seen. I still don't even know
what some of that stuff is....or what it’s for.....or why I thought I needed
it.
You
might think you would know me by looking at the stuff in my basement, but you'd
be wrong. None of that stuff is ME;
little of it has been used by me. It is
mostly sitting there gathering dust. Or
at least it was until last month.
I
sat down, last month, with garbage bag in hand to do away with everything
except that which could be sold on eBay.
Lucky for me, much was good sellable stuff. But there was much to throw away as
well. I can't tell you how many times I
went to the garbage dumpster to dump 30 pound bags that were stuffed to the
brim.
EBay
is what filled my basement and got me into thousands of $$ of credit card
debt. But this month eBay is my
friend. I am selling instead of buying. Bringing in the money instead of watching it
go out. I must confess I was afraid the
shopaholic in me might rear its ugly head again with me spending so much time
on eBay, but it didn't happen. I
actually enjoy the selling, taking the pictures and figuring out the selling
strategy for the items. Even if I were
to buy, it would be cash based now since I'm linked up via debit instead of
credit.
But
back to my basement floor: I can
actually see the floor again. There is
space to move around. I can't tell you
how good that feels!!
Now,
none of this means my life is functional yet.
Nothing is set up so I can do the things I really want to do. I would like to sew some clothing for my
little girl. I have to find a spot in
one of the rooms to organize the sewing stuff.
Right now sewing fabrics and threads are in every room in the house
(except the bathroom). I need to get
everything together so I can actually work.
Instead of running to the basement to find the scissors than running to
my room to find the thread and running to the kitchen where I lost saw the seam
ripper.
So
I've got a lot to do yet, but things are definitely improving.
More later,
Kelly