January 23, 2009
Clean Sweep
You remember the old aluminum shed in my front yard, don’t you? It’s the type that some call a tin barn and others call a Sears shed. Cleaning and organizing it was the first chore I tackled when I knew I’d be moving. Ah, it’s amusing to look back at that post. I wrote it in October and actually thought at that time that I’d be moved within a few weeks. Ha! Here it is January and we’ve pushed the move date back again, for the final time I hope, to some time in mid-February. But this isn’t about the move. It’s about the shed. It’s an ugly thing and I’ve hated having it in my front yard where everybody and his brother can see it. It made sense to put it there originally. I was just starting a major remodel and needed a convenient place for the building supplies and tools. I thought the shed would sit there for a year or so, but I guess it put down roots because it’s still there.
The shed is empty tonight, except for a couple of bags of grout that I have no use for. Last weekend a guy who came to the garage sale offered me a good price for the shed and said he could come today to take it apart and carry it away. Paul, Todd and I spent a couple of hours this morning emptying it out one last time and distributing its contents to my other two sheds, with a few currently-in-use items - mostly of the plumbing and painting genre - going into the screened room for easy access. It’s six-thirty now and the buyer hasn’t showed up, but I’m not worried. When I quoted him a price for the shed he jumped right on it, a sure sign that I had priced it too low. If he doesn’t show tomorrow I’ll put a sign on it quoting double the price I told him, then let some lucky bargain hunter negotiate me down a little. Any way you look at I’ll come out ahead. If the choice is between an ugly shed and money in hand, I’ll take the cash, thank-you-very-much!
[tags]bargains, garage sale, storage, storage shed[/tags]
Posted by skeet @ 6:30 pm • Just stuff
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