Gay Yard Sale,,, The Day After

So, I had everything out of the house by 6am and the music was thumping to get me moving by 8 o'clock, coffee and cigs for the day........
and today....................
God gods and goddesses, I still have way to much stuff.
The yard sale went well, as yard sales go I guess, I did make a couple of hundred dollars for my effort and sweat and pain. But being I used to be a pro Yard sales junkie myself, I can say that people who frequent yard sales range from the little old ladies, sweet and pure, to the downright Just Released from the looney Bin department. I had most of the latter. Nuts, and cheap peps thinking that I was too high priced for their pocketbooks.
At one point I began to scream,,, NO PESOs!!!!
I mean, really, I do yard sales enough to know how to price things ,,, or not. I do not put prices on my things, never. It makes for more fun with the participants of the game. It also reserves me the right to make an Outrageous Price demand if they piss me off. Example, I had this solid brass and copper bust of an Elephants head, real nice and heavy as all get out. I really liked it myself as it represented Ganesha, the god of wealth and learning of the Hindu pantheon. Ganesha's Head would have cost you around $80.00 to 100.00 bucks if bought in a store. I was asking $15.00 for it. You would have thought that I was asking a million. They would pick it up and ask the price, then sit it back down over and over, and I didn't care, if it didn't sale, it would go back into the North Corner alter I have set up to represent 'wealth'. but, finally someone saw the value, and bought it. And I was happy that I stuck to my 'guns' and held out,, and will miss Ganesha,, but have other things that correspond to his realm. One lady, I asked her to make me an offer, if she thought it too high and she said two dollars, I laughed at her none stop until she left.
One lady went around and around picking up everything that was worth more than two dollars, and when I told her $5.00 for a lamp, she twirled her head around and whistled, and said, "oh my, my goodness, that much?'' Yes, I told her, it was almost 50 years old, made to last through a nuculear winter, and of solid brass with great detail, design and very unusual,,,, as most of my stuff. 5 bucks was not enough really, but was the bottom for me, or I would take it back in the house and enjoy for however long I needed. so everything she went to, she would say under her breathe, but directed to me,,, "I guess this is 5 dollars too, huh?" YEP!! Everything she picked up from then on, I didn't care if it was a shoe lace,,, was $5.00. Of course she didn't buy anything, and frankly I didn't give a damn. Now this does not mean that I didn't give some things away, I did. I sold a rolltop desk for only $25 when it was worth a LOT MORE. I like the guy and he bought alot of stuff. Be nice to me, and I will be nice to you. And don't mess with me when I haven't slept for two days and am selling my life away for pennies. The lack of sleep really made this an interesting yard sale.
My witchy friend Kim came to help me, and sold plenty for less than I would have,, and that was OK ,, I did say I wanted it gone. we really need to pick up on our Spanish as that is really the basis for yard sales attendees now, Latinos looking for a bargain,, and I gave them breaks, because I am partial to good looking ethnic men. also, the nice elderly man and woman from NJ who where visiting NC got a deal, He thought I was a Mason because I have all kinds of Masonic regalia and I had a Masonic Watch,, maybe worth a hundred dollars,,, I liked them alot, she came back later and wanted to surprise him with the watch. I surprised her by letting her have it for $8.00 !! She really was shocked,, but again,, be nice, and nice things happen to you.
so,,,,
Now my garage is worst looking than before, and I still have tons of stuff that needs to be sorted,, for keeps and what goes to GoodWill and the Salvation Army. The car is packed with a ton of clothes for Mondays trip to dump it all off. I have some friends that are expert in organization and they are coming to help me continue my divestment experiment next weekend. It is not easy when the attachments are so strong, but I am determined to continue and get this house in order. I want to be Spartan, and not have all the knick nacs around any more. so I am Off to start resorting,, for the next sale and what is to be taken away.
I really am beat. and happy that I have started to divest myself of things,, It is really hard for an old homo like me,,, way too attached and now that I realize that I have this sickness of attachment,, I must say,,, "Physician Heal thyself"
The highlight was my last customer, who I actually took inside the house because I had already taken alot of junk back inside. She just moved here from NY city and bought a new house, I showed her the ton of pictures, paintings and gave her the Grand tour. We bonded in thirty minutes, I have a new girlfriend!! She is a beautiful six foot tall black woman who could be a model if she chose to be one. Just beautiful. She wanted a painting I have of these flowers all done in red and black. But she had mentioned earth tones, and I showed her a painting that Giovanni had done of sunflowers,, sorta Picasso like. She LOVED IT. and being that it was my favorite painting of Gio's I had to let her have it,, it would be symbolic of letting go of him also. We walked around my yard, with me telling her the names of trees, plants and flowers, I pulled seeds off of this and that to give her, and gave her a bearded iris and a jade tree, (no charge,, she was now a friend, not just a yard sale customer. We exchanged numbers and hugged like old friends when she left. I watched as she went down the road, with Gio's painting, the plants and few items she had bought. That was what having a Gay Yard Sales was about,, making a new girlfriend!!!! I do love being queer sometimes. This was one of them.