I spent the day trying to give things away, that’s right GIVE THEM AWAY!!  I got sick of trying to negotiate prices and pick up times w/ folks so instead I posted on freecycle and Criagslist to come get the rest of the stuff for FREE.   You’d think this would be easy, but it’s not.  it was just as hard as trying to sell it.   In the process a moderator on Freecycle got mad at me for double posting by mistake, by mistake because their site sucks.   Needless to say after 2 more emails from that moderator and another telling me the other person was too busy and “dealing with a lot” I chose to leave the Yahoo group and wont use it any more.   I mean, I understand what “dealing with a lot” is, heck that’s my life most of the time but it’s no excuse to be mean, to strangers at that for a simple mistake.
Ugh…despite that one rude person today, I met quite a few nice folks through my “free for all”  It was kind of cool actually.    One of the last to come tonight was a woman who happened to be wearing a School for the Arts shirt.   I laughed immediately and told her my hubby went there, she came in to get some stuff from downstairs, while down there I told Dean she went to BSA and as she was leaving he ran up and asked her some questions, turns out they remembered each other.  it was funny.   A family who came earlier had 2 boys and the mom mentioned to Dean something about our kids names, about the ABCDE of our names, she caught it when she saw the banner on my webpage.   No one evers gets that til we explain it, so that was neat.   We talked to them for a little bit as well.

Earlier in the day a lady came for something I was selling, but she had a hard time getting here, finding an atm and I didnt have change for her $20(she owed me $10) so I gave her what she came for and also one of the boys bikes, just the other day Dean complained that we had too many bikes/ride on toys outside.  So when she walked up the driveway she commented on the bikes and how nice the yard was for the kids, she had a 2 2 1/2 year old boy with her, so I let them take one of the bikes that the boys dont ride that often.   Ironically, Bo didnt want them to take it, so as we stood in front of the house by their car talking some more, we talked a lot actually for strangers, that’s always cool, but anyway…so while we talked and before we had the bike loaded in her car, Bo came over and pushed the car up under our biggest tree to hide it.  When I went to go get it he came back to take it from me, he may not ride it often but he knew it was ours and didnt want them to take it, I reminded him of his bikes so he went to find one of those as we loaded up the bike for her son.

a friend of mine came over for something I had listed and stayed to chat for a while, that was fun too!   Tomorrow a couple is coming to pick up some things for their grandkids.   I know we could make money on some of the things if I put more time into but # 1 I want things gone so we can work on painting the basement and #2, we’ve been so blessed by people giving things to us I thought it only fair to return the favor to others.     it’s a win win really.

I just wish that darn moderator hadnt made me so angry! oh well I know I did something nice today even if she didnt.