The big cleanup

 

As part of our ongoing tradition, Fiona and I have been doing a bit of sorting, gifting and disposing of stuff as part of the end-beginning of year. We have been in our current home for just over two years now so we felt it was time to review what we had in my work shed and stored downstairs in the store room. We thought we might have a small garage sale.

We had talked to a few folk in our village and the resident's committee decided that we would have a village wide garage sale; and also order in a largish skip bin to dispose of rubbish.

I did no art work over the last few days as our time was given over to: transporting goods including stuff from my and other folk's work spaces as seen in the ute in the first photo; sorting; categorising; pricing; making signs; putting signs out; taking signs in  etc etc.

As a combined group we had a pretty huge array of and quantity of stuff. A few photos follow that don't do justice to the range and quantity. As well as the indoor space shown in the final photo we had two large outdoor display areas as well - big!!!!

We failed to take photos of the selling frenzy and post sale clean up; but suffice to say the outcome of a few days work was very good including a ute load taken to the local resource centre. Funds raised will go to improving the village community centre amenities and functioning.

This week I will oversee the collection of stuff for the skip; and the packing of the bin to maximise its capacity. In all of that Fiona and I did achieve our goal of moving stuff on that we were no longer using or in love with.