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!:)