Yard Sale? Garage Sale? Lanai Sale!
In Hawaii we have Yard Sales and Garage Sales.....but they are often given the local-style name, Lanai Sale! Whatever you call it, we had one today.
The sale was in "honor" of daughter #1 who is moving to Los Angeles next Saturday. She's been cleaning out her apartment stuff and all the other stuff she has had stored in our garage during the past 4 1/2 years. Her sisters and parents have done the same and, with everything collected into piles and boxes, we woke up at 6am this morning and started setting everything up outside.
I borrowed a tent-pavilion from some church friends and we put all the books inside to protect them from the rain showers that came and went all morning.
The large furniture items were just inside the garage and the clothes and odd-items were on tables in the driveway, which we covered up with old table clothes and bed pads every time the rain showed up.
Here in Hawaii, a lot of people worship at the lanai sale ritual every Saturday morning. Beginning at 7am, a steady stream of folks, rich and poor alike, came by to help redistribute the wealth and recycle both the profound and mundane items that come and go, masquerading as our "possessions" in life.
Jesus said, "Do not store up treasures on earth where moth and rust consumes them and where theives break in and steal."
Lanai sales are graphic examples of what Jesus was talking about! We had so much stufff that was once important to us....almost considered to be invaluable....that we now regarded as unnecessary, unneeded and unwanted!
Even so, one man's junk is another man's treasure....so, in exchange for a lot of quarters and one-dollar bills, we made a lot of treasure hunters happy this morning.
We even sold off two large items, a large futon/sofa and a five-piece dining room set (that had belonged to my wonderful wife's mother)....sold at the original asking price....no haggling today! Wonder of wonders!
When it was all over, and all the signs we had posted up and down the streets had been taken down, we added up the money and found that daughter #1 and her parents had each earned almost the exact amount of money. For my daughter, this meant that she had earned almost 1/3 of her first month's rent at her new LA apartment!
I told her she only needed to have four yard sales like this every month and she'd not only be able to pay her rent but have some money left over to burn.
Not surprisingly, the thought of another lanai sale was more than daughter #1 was willing to handle this afternoon.
Her mother and two sisters would no doubt agree.
Actually, me, too!
The sale was in "honor" of daughter #1 who is moving to Los Angeles next Saturday. She's been cleaning out her apartment stuff and all the other stuff she has had stored in our garage during the past 4 1/2 years. Her sisters and parents have done the same and, with everything collected into piles and boxes, we woke up at 6am this morning and started setting everything up outside.
I borrowed a tent-pavilion from some church friends and we put all the books inside to protect them from the rain showers that came and went all morning.
The large furniture items were just inside the garage and the clothes and odd-items were on tables in the driveway, which we covered up with old table clothes and bed pads every time the rain showed up.
Here in Hawaii, a lot of people worship at the lanai sale ritual every Saturday morning. Beginning at 7am, a steady stream of folks, rich and poor alike, came by to help redistribute the wealth and recycle both the profound and mundane items that come and go, masquerading as our "possessions" in life.
Jesus said, "Do not store up treasures on earth where moth and rust consumes them and where theives break in and steal."
Lanai sales are graphic examples of what Jesus was talking about! We had so much stufff that was once important to us....almost considered to be invaluable....that we now regarded as unnecessary, unneeded and unwanted!
Even so, one man's junk is another man's treasure....so, in exchange for a lot of quarters and one-dollar bills, we made a lot of treasure hunters happy this morning.
We even sold off two large items, a large futon/sofa and a five-piece dining room set (that had belonged to my wonderful wife's mother)....sold at the original asking price....no haggling today! Wonder of wonders!
When it was all over, and all the signs we had posted up and down the streets had been taken down, we added up the money and found that daughter #1 and her parents had each earned almost the exact amount of money. For my daughter, this meant that she had earned almost 1/3 of her first month's rent at her new LA apartment!
I told her she only needed to have four yard sales like this every month and she'd not only be able to pay her rent but have some money left over to burn.
Not surprisingly, the thought of another lanai sale was more than daughter #1 was willing to handle this afternoon.
Her mother and two sisters would no doubt agree.
Actually, me, too!
posted by Bird of Paradise at 10:20 PM
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