Garage sales can take you through a long, sometimes excruciating journey of self discovery. You meet a lot of nice people, and some not so nice people who only want to spend a quarter on your personal possessions. You see your old self in those who are still collecting and you hope they will have …

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Still, there are those last few things that haven’t made it to the “sell” pile yet. I don’t want to overanalyze, but part of this rebirthing process is understanding how you got to where you are and why you don’t want to go back where you just came from. Having said that, here are a …

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Then there are the things I feel mostly detatched from: Trek Navigator Bike I got this bike four years ago for my birthday. It cost more than any other birthday present I had ever bought myself. I felt entitled. I had a desire to get back to that time in my twenties when I rode …

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For the last five Saturdays we have had a garage sale from our 10×20 storage shed. Four of those Saturdays it rained. Last Saturday it was beautiful. By then we had sold most of the big stuff. So we were getting $1-2 for what was left…everything except for the few “good” items that remained. Still, …

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