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  Moving Out There comes a time for every young girl when she has to make one of the most important decisions of her life -to move out on her own. She will scramble to get enough money but is usually unsuccessful. Moving out can really cause a lot of stress. After a lifetime of never concerning herself with whether she has enough dishes or a couch to sit on, her mom's wares are no longer her own. Luckily for the modern woman of today, all of her commodity woes can be solved in a weekend or two. All she needs to do is set her alarm clock for the crack of dawn (preferably on a Saturday), throw on her least favourite pair of jeans (ones that she doesn't mind getting dirty!) and get ready for a day of excitement and growth. Of course recruiting an old friend or trustworthy boyfriend with a large vehicle to come along for the adventure will only increase the success of the day! Garage sales were invented in part to clear one's home of items that have created clutter or that were never really liked in the first place. These nifty sales also serve a greater good however; they catapult the modern woman into her own place without breaking the bank. No more worries about sleeping on the floor for the first months in her new abode. Someone, most likely on the very same weekend that the young woman is searching frantically for an eye-catching bed-frame to call her own, will decide to sell one in a garage sale. Said bed-frame can then be trucked home and polished to perfection. It will be just as lovely as any that she would have found at any furniture warehouse, but she will have paid a lot less for it, and will have saved it from its inevitable trip to the dump. Obviously a young woman needs more than a bed-frame to furnish her very first home. Whether she takes pleasure in the art of cooking or not; dishes, pots/pans, cutlery, etc. will be necessary to a pleasant existence. She could hit the big box department stores and hope for a big sale on the lowest of the lowest end products, or she could once again put her trust in a stranger and their garage sale. She will be amazed to find practically everything she needs at one sale or another. And not the lowest of the lowest end products. Tried and tested kitchen accessories will be strewn across various lawns, some looking very inconspicuous until they are right in front of her, until they are calling her name and begging to be brought home. She had best have brought her own boxes to store her finds as she moves from sale to sale. The last thing she needs is to have cups and spoons lying haphazardly in the back of a pick up truck at the end of the day. This 'garage saleing' adventure the young woman has thrown herself into is hardly a walk in the park. It takes planning ahead of time, mapping out the best sounding sales that she has seen on telephone poles or read in the newspaper. It requires driving from sale to sale with unwavering enthusiasm. And most of all it means she must be willing to spend quality time at each sale scouring the tables and driveways for anything that will be useful or pretty. Mustn't forget pretty. If at anytime during the day/days of home-ware shopping the young woman should find a dazzling vase or wall hanging that just catches her eye, she should snatch that up as well. Every young woman's house needs a feminine touch. And if she can do so without ever stepping into an Ikea or trendy decorating boutique, then so be it! At the end of the day, on the drive home, it is perfectly normal for the tired shopper to sit and wistfully daydream of the day's purchases. She may mentally arrange the new furniture in her imaginary rooms, waiting the day she can ship them all off to her very own home. Her successes (and extra cash) will all be thanks to the best form of recycling, the garage sale. Melissa Wood is a freelance writer in her last year of the Journalism Diploma Program at Langara. |
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