The Three S's

Happy Easter! We are relaxing after a very active weekend of selling, shredding and sewing -- The three S's!

Just about everything we put on Craiglist this weekend is gone. The biggest payoff was several dozen new high-dollar golf balls Boris acquired at his previous employer. They've been sitting in the garage for the last couple of years, until Boris thought he'd take them for a spin on Craigslist. All I can say is cha-CHING! This is the best way to sell your stuff, hands down.

We also made a sweep of the place and gathered stuff for a charity pick up that's scheduled for Tuesday. The boxes of books will go, along with a couple bags of clothes and about three moving boxes of housewares. What fun to clear our kitchen of stuff we no longer need that can serve a good cause!

Boris and I setup camp (so to speak) in our home office for a good part of the weekend. Boris spent hours shredding old financial documents. That shredder was (almost literally) smokin! Between shredfests he also managed to finish our taxes. (Thanks dear!) We've been Turbo Tax users for nearly two decades, but for the first time ever Boris decided to file our returns electronically. Taking our returns to the post office on or around April 15th has been a long-standing tradition at our house. We'll just have to find a new pasttime. (Can you say "fulltiming"?)

While Boris was shredding and taxing, I was at the sewing maching working on the quilt for our bed in Bullwinkle. When I bought the fabric a couple of weeks ago, I told myself I wouldn't start on this one until "The Quilt" was finished. But, I couldn't resist. Once I had washed all of those luscious fabrics, they tempted me to begin cutting and sewing. I caved and made great progress on our fulltiming quilt. Turns out it's a welcome creative break from the multi-year project. Could be just what I needed to get jazzed about that old project once again. I'm close to finishing it....really close.

Needless to say, things are feeling a lot more spacious 'round here. With many of our belongings gone, we're beginning to get the sense that we might just be packing up and moving out of here in a couple of months.

Yahoo!!