garage sale memories

do you ever notice how much stuff you have accumulated over the years?

i have recently started to go through all my "stuff" to get things together for a garage sale. i look a things in my house and realize there are things that i never use.

GARAGE SALE ITEM #1
there is a coffee pot that sits in my kitchen, bought for the sole purpose of having coffee when my mom visits my house (has only happened once since i moved to ny because i would much rather visit her in florida)

GARAGE SALE ITEMS #2-10 (8 purses that i am selling and there are 10 that i am not ;)
i know i am a girl because i have more purses than i know what to do with! and better yet, i don't use half of them. in pulling these out for the sale, i found matching wallets inside a few too! (sadly no hidden money in them)
hopefully they will all make a happy home at some other girls house or guys house for that matter!

GARAGE SALE ITEM #11
some weird wire kitchen contraption that is for washing fruit or something like that. i never use it but think it looks cool on display in my kitchen....well no more room for keeping "cool" items that are too confusing to figure out.

there are some many more of these that i could list forever. but as i go through things in my house i am happily finding the memories that go with all these things. like the cigar box purse that reminds me of my very fashionable friend that gave it too me (not in the garage sale), remembering the christmas morning that my mom and niece were visiting my NY apartment and used the coffee maker. (this was the same morning that my cutie niece knocked over the christmas tree- i think she is still haunted by that). and the former roommate that brought the weird wire thing into my life.

i guess you never know what memories you will be picking up at the next garage sale.