Yikes, Kathy! What they all said.

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.

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.

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.

I'm sorry, Maria.

I'm glad you weren't hurt, Kathy.

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."

Yikes, Kathy! I'm glad you're not hurt!

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.

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.

Is it worth fixing the car, even for more than its value, since that's presumably still less than getting a new car?