I Give Up! I’m Just Going to Have a Mondo Garage Sale

Every time I go into my garage to try and find anything, I feel like sitting down on the floor and crying. My garage has been absolutely stuffed full of stuff since we remodeled the house a few years ago. Not only is it full of remodeling things, it’s full of furniture that I was refurbishing for my craft booth and craft fairs.

Although you can hardly tell, I have two dining room tables, chairs, a desk, 3 sets of end tables plus one single, a vintage bedroom set (double bed, vanity and dresser), a bookcase, a wall cabinet, a garden table, two benches and right at them moment I can’t remember the rest. I actually donated quite a bit when I closed the booth, but the things that I hadn’t finished or hadn’t moved to the booth remain in my garage. I even have boxes of brand new items (including shelves, hooks, coat racks, architectural elements) that I bought for the booth.

I also have lighting parts and lamps tucked in here and there as well as other miscellaneous other crafting and building supplies. You can’t fill a booth with just furniture, so I have a few other vintage and collectibles.

I was going to Craig’s List the big items individually. Everytime I walked into that garage I felt so overwhelmed, I just couldn’t get it together. I had been slowly cleaning up and putting things away. This weekend I finally decided to just have on humongous garage sale and get rid of as much as I possibly can in 2 days, Friday and Saturday. I’m adding some things from inside the house and inside my shop building. It’s probably not a typical garage sale, but I hope it will be an altered artist’s, lighting designer’s, furniture refurbisher’s, recycled artist’s, craft booth owner’s, home decorator’s and garage sale enthusiast’s paradise.

I’ll be listing the sale Thursday on Craig’s List in the Portland Washington County area.  Until then, here’s a pointer to some photos I took of my garage last night, Garage Sale Photos.