Kathy! I'm glad you're okay. Totally sucky to lose the car.
Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.
Forrest ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Sep 08, 2011 1:41:06 pm PDT #24925 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse - Sep 08, 2011 1:45:58 pm PDT #24926 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes, Kathy! What they all said.
flea - Sep 08, 2011 1:47:13 pm PDT #24927 of 30001
information libertarian
Good grief, such news. I will keep my fingers crossed for only tiny dribbles of water in Maria's restaurant, and for a shiny new car that lasts 10 years paid for by someone else's insurance for Kathy.
And a question for the hivemind: is a yard/moving sale worth the hassle? Bear in mind I am cheap and like money.
It is actually dawning on mr. flea that he is moving to Ohio in less than 48 hours. Finally.
SuziQ - Sep 08, 2011 1:49:51 pm PDT #24928 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Glad you are ok, Kathy. Scary and sucky.
CJ didn't get to go up in one of the Life Flight helicopter. None of the probies did. He did learn that Life Flight can handle larger patients than Flight for Life.
Amy - Sep 08, 2011 1:52:54 pm PDT #24929 of 30001
Because books.
is a yard/moving sale worth the hassle?
It can be as long as you advertise it well. Fliers everywhere, and a classified ad for the career garage-salers who will be there bright and early. Make sure it's the good stuff, priced really reasonably, and cleaned up.
Calli - Sep 08, 2011 1:54:18 pm PDT #24930 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry, Maria.
I'm glad you weren't hurt, Kathy.
amyth - Sep 08, 2011 1:55:13 pm PDT #24931 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Yard sale: in my experience, it's not worth it, money-wise, but totally worth it to Freecycle a bunch of stuff you don't want to take with you. Moving is always a good excuse to lighten your load.
Caveat: you probably have a lot of kid stuff, which actually might make a fair amount of money. But I've never made any substantial money on a yard sale. T&G and I had a free yard sale when they moved to NYC, and we still had an entire front porch's worth of stuff that we had to freecycle at the end of it. We couldn't give it away! But we did live out in the country. Or, "country."
Consuela - Sep 08, 2011 2:00:55 pm PDT #24932 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yikes, Kathy! I'm glad you're not hurt!
Jesse - Sep 08, 2011 2:02:20 pm PDT #24933 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And a question for the hivemind: is a yard/moving sale worth the hassle? Bear in mind I am cheap and like money.
I vote yes, but also because it makes you take out everything you don't want to move and then you can bring it straight to Goodwill (etc) at the end of the sale. It also seems like it would be a good time to get rid of furniture to people (students) who have settled into a new place and see what they need.
Ginger - Sep 08, 2011 2:11:17 pm PDT #24934 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That sucks, Kathy. I'm glad you're okay. Clark Howard says that the first offer from an insurance company is always way low and you should look up its actual value on Edmunds.com and Kelley Blue Book [link] and make a counter offer. Sadly, that's never enough money to get another paid-for car.
flea, I find yard sales labor intensive for what you get, although as amyth says, kids things, particularly clothes, sell better than anything else. As she says, they they're most useful when there are a bunch of things you don't want to move. That way, you've assembled them and gotten some money, and then you can Freecycle or donate the rest.