Hangover

It has officially been one week since our sale.  A few stragglers have come in for the items that they could not take with them, but essentially everything is gone.

Over the past few days, Diane and I have found ourselves to be extremely tired... much like a long, protracted hangover.  The vacuum of our stuff whirling out of the house caused tremendous physical, mental and emotional stress.  We had been planning it for so long that when the sale actually happened, all of that stress took its toll.

Having your world put out there for everyone to see, evaluate, critique, acquire.... brings a certain level of stress that frankly I was not prepared for.  This is a small town and we knew the VAST majority of people who came to our sale.  Your world, exposed for evaluation.

...then there was the sale itself.  Would anyone come?  Would they buy what we had at the prices we evaluated it at?  There was a LOT of 'stuff' out there!

In the end, it was a tremendous success: emotionally and financially.  HOWEVER, it has certainly taken it out of us.  FORTUNATELY, the hangover is wearing off and we can get on with life... unencumbered.