The Last of the Treasures

By the time we sold the house, I would say that we only owned about 10% of the things we did a year before.  We were down to the things we needed to survive in a one bedroom apartment, and a few treasures that we couldn't stand to give away.

 Bless our families for helping us out with this dilemma!  Some of our siblings and our parents found spots in their homes for some antiques, and we hope they "enjoy" them for many years while we continue to travel.  We appreciate that a lot!  It will be fun seeing our furniture scattered in many households when we come to visit.  My Mom and sister are storing all those photo albums, journals, and scrapbooks that I put together to chronicle every detail of our sons' lives.  We especially appreciate that!

We also still had some more really good junk, but we couldn't seem to muster up the courage for another garage sale with all the work of pricing and setting up tables, etc.  So I invented a new concept--a free garage sale.  We invited friends over for warm brownies and lemonade, and asked them to take anything they wanted.  They took almost everything home with them, and saved us the trouble of boxing it up for the local thrift store. (By this time we had already taken so many loads to the thrift store that they were considering adding on a wing and naming it after us.)