School got out last week and we already had a busy summer weekend. We went up to Intl Falls to help my parents and sister with their big garage sale. I put some stuff in too.
Mostly old purses and all the chicken decorations everyone and their brother gave me several years ago when I got three live chickens. Seriously, nobody gave a second thought about what to get me for my birthday that year, if it had a chicken on it, the general consensus was that I wanted it. I got a chicken platter, a chicken rug, chicken plates, chicken candy dishes, a metal and wood decorative chicken, a chicken key holder, a big glass chicken full of olive oil and vegetables, a chicken basket, a chicken bank, a chicken tape dispenser, a gigantic cement chicken that weighs more than a 100 pounds etc etc etc. I brought some of the better looking chickens to sell, thinking nobody would want a bunch of chicken stuff and it would end up in the dump. The very first lady at the sale, who arrived an hour and 15 minutes before it officially opened, bought ALL the chicken stuff and would have brought more if I had only brought it all. DARNIT! I should have brought it all.
I finally acquired the giant fish platter that my sisters and I have been coveting since my mom got it about fifteen years ago. I thought I was going to have to wait until they were dead and then fight my sisters for it, but my mom decided she doesn't want it anymore so it was going to go in the sale. First my sister Beth was going to snag it and give it to my sister Amy for her birthday (tacky), but too bad for Beth, she was at work, so I put it in my car. HA HA! Now I have the big fish platter, my sisters do not have it, and my parents are still alive. Win win win.
I tried to sell Amy's dog again, but nobody wanted her.
Mostly old purses and all the chicken decorations everyone and their brother gave me several years ago when I got three live chickens. Seriously, nobody gave a second thought about what to get me for my birthday that year, if it had a chicken on it, the general consensus was that I wanted it. I got a chicken platter, a chicken rug, chicken plates, chicken candy dishes, a metal and wood decorative chicken, a chicken key holder, a big glass chicken full of olive oil and vegetables, a chicken basket, a chicken bank, a chicken tape dispenser, a gigantic cement chicken that weighs more than a 100 pounds etc etc etc. I brought some of the better looking chickens to sell, thinking nobody would want a bunch of chicken stuff and it would end up in the dump. The very first lady at the sale, who arrived an hour and 15 minutes before it officially opened, bought ALL the chicken stuff and would have brought more if I had only brought it all. DARNIT! I should have brought it all.
I finally acquired the giant fish platter that my sisters and I have been coveting since my mom got it about fifteen years ago. I thought I was going to have to wait until they were dead and then fight my sisters for it, but my mom decided she doesn't want it anymore so it was going to go in the sale. First my sister Beth was going to snag it and give it to my sister Amy for her birthday (tacky), but too bad for Beth, she was at work, so I put it in my car. HA HA! Now I have the big fish platter, my sisters do not have it, and my parents are still alive. Win win win.
I tried to sell Amy's dog again, but nobody wanted her.
put a chicken on it!
ReplyDeleteFYI...no win for you:) I gave that platter to Mom as a gift (thanks Mom) and I happen to have the same platter sitting on my hutch as I type this so...jokes on you. To bad for Amy though.
ReplyDeleteWell, that certainly changes things. I did not know that. Now I kind of want your platter too. What can we fight over? The olive dish?
DeleteI like the chicken-platter blog conversation that's taking place right now.
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