Cats, Cats and more Cats!

Mabelmae, my CEO


As you go through life, you collect a lot of stuff along the way. In some way, the things you collect represent a time in your life. It may be a good time. It may be a bad time. But the stuff you bring into your life is very representative of who you were at the time of its acquisition.
And so brings us to my life long love of all things pointy earred, furring and purring---cats!
My parents used to tell me that my first word was "kitty" and if this were indeed true, much about my life evolved from there. I have always had an affinity with cats, always loved cats and, well, maybe even felt at one with the feline populace of the world. Not that I'm a crazy cat lady, mind you.....or maybe I am. The thing is, it is a given that I like cats and it is the one thing in life I can be actually sure about. And yes, I do believe that you can never have too many cats, furry or decorative.
This love affair with cats has gotten me through some pretty rough times in my life. I remember a pretty bad time in the early '80's. My mother had passed away and within a year of her death, my father married a woman who did not want me in her life. At some point, on a rather dark day, I proclaimed "I like cats!" and something about that proclamation made me start collecting them. I think in some way my goal was to decorate my home like Cat Woman's lair, and in many ways I succeeded. When my daughter was younger, she and her friends would count the number of cat things I had around. When I opened my online business in 1998, it was devoted to cats(or at least to stuff for cat lovers).
And so, the cat collection grew and grew to the place where I am today--purging and re-evaluating and changing my life. I'm not saying that I am going to part with all of my cat inspired goodies. I have to keep a few. But part of this selling my life on eBay has to include some cat housekeeping. And I think it's time for another cat collector to enjoy my collection. After all, you can never have too many cats!

Too see see how this all evolving, check out my auctions at the address below. And if you are or know any cat lovers, send them over. I know they'll find something they definitely have to have!
http://stores.ebay.com/Mabelmaes-Attic

On Selling Dana Carvey..........

As I go through my life, I am finding that I didn't add things to it just to add stuff, I added things to make me smile or bring a little fun into my life. Not everything I am listing has this connection, but Dana Carvey does. Not the "real" Dana Carvey. This is a much smaller version, and unlike the real version, I don't think this one has ever been on SNL.
I have a habit of finding things that I have never seen before and aquiring them. If something looks different, well, I'm all for adding it to my life and on one overcast day in Los Angeles, I found Dana Carvey. This was Dana as Garth from Waynes World and, well, he was just so darn cute that I had to give him a home. He had the cutest little shoes and the cutest expression on his face. And in his hands, he held two tiny drumsticks. And, he was a marionette and ever since I was a child I loved marionettes. And so I had to have him. I envisioned myself finding a tiny drumset somewhere and putting on a show. Well, the drumset was never found and Dana just hung around, getting all sorts of odd looks from anyone who saw him.
I was asked if I was a real Wayne's World fan....well no...........I think I've seen it once......am I a Dana Carvey fan..........well, yes, but not to the extent of having an idol in his likeness. So eventually, it became very apparent to me that the only reason I had Dana in my life was because he was unique and different and something I could smile about. And that's a pretty good reason for purchasing anything.
But now, it's time for Dana to move on. It's time for him to go to someone else that marches to a different drummer. Maybe even to a diehard Wayne's World fan. It's time for Dana to make someone else smile!

If you want to take a look at Dana or any of my Life I'm selling on eBay, take a look at my store on eBay. Just go the the address below:
http://stores.ebay.com/Mabelmaes-Attic

In the Beginning...........There's a Lot of Stuff!!

Some might wonder if this is the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning. Or it might just be the beginning of things to come. Whatever the case, I have decided to sell my life on eBay in order to clean out, cleanse and start anew. At my age, I have been through a lot of stuff, to put it mildly. And a lot of stuff has been collected. And a large amount of stuff has been stored, unceremoniously, rarely to see the light of day.



To say that my life has been a journey.... would be trite. A journey is made up of hills and valleys and curves--some pleasant, some treacherous . My life has been one never ending and, at times, exhilarating road trip! One energetic joie de vie. But it is time to move on. Time to clean out. And time to renew. This is my new journey and I guess I'll experience it as it goes.



To start with, there is also a monetary reason to all this madness. I started experiencing the recession way before the rest of the country. Seven years ago, everything was fine in my world. I had an acting career and a successful Internet business, but then, as happens in life, I was thrown a curve. In 2004 everything started to unravel. I became sick, medical bills piled up--you name it, it happened. Everything but locusts. So by 2005, we,my family and I, had lost everything--house, car, savings, dog, jobs. Everything but stuff.



Over the last 6 years, I have moved 7 times. Moving over and over, each time I would relinquish a little of my stuff, giving it to the American Cancer Society or Goodwill. Sometimes I would just leave things for people to take. But even with this desire to rid myself of stuff, stuff remained in my life. I had lost everything but my stuff. When you lose everything, you begin to lose your self worth. And without self worth, you begin to only exist. I am about to put an end to that nonexistence.



The purpose of this blog and this sale of a lifetime, as it were, is to purge and renew and restore. I believe that if I can sell everything on eBay, I can begin my life again or at least get back to where I was before all of this started to happen. As I list things, I am going to write about them and what they mean. I hope to be writing something everyday as I list my life on eBay. The blog will go with the auctions and the auctions will go with blog and, hopefully, you , the reader, will learn that it's not just stuff that I'm selling on eBay, but it's my life.





To see what part of my life I'm selling go to http://stores.ebay.com/Mabelmaes-Attic


And, who knows, you may even see something you like!:)