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You’d be surprised what you can find…at a yard sale!
My wife and I went with our friends Sandy and Derrick to their little town’s monthly yard sale. Happens first Saturday of each month. All the residents bring out their stuff and line up their display units for a few blocks, lining both sides of the road, right down Mainstreet SmalltownUSA.
You just never know what you will see…just when you think you’ve seen it all, there comes along:
A woman selling handmade adult bibs, for the elderly who have reached the place in life when…they need a bib.
I just never thought of that!
Or a ViewMaster with all 30 original disks. Kids today would be so bored to be forced to use it, but…my generation remembers it well.
How about a 1963 Archie Comics comic book—originally sold for 12 cents but…you can be the proud owner for only a dollar—what a steal!
I was taken aback by an old school desk. Not from 100 years ago—no, this one was about 45 years old. I remembered it well. I got stuck in that desk every day! I was that rotund boy who never quite fit in the school desk, the one with the fixed arm and desktop with the built in pencil holder. Yep—that was me. Squeezed in the desk- everyday!
So… sometimes, what you find takes you back to days gone by…and you’re glad—they’re long gone by!
Oh the things you can find…at a yard sale!
Like a metal mannequin made out of washers—I have to admit, I was mesmerized. I had to touch it…and I did! And my friend Sandy observed this moment—and she laughed out loud—literally, not the way we type LOL—she really did laugh out loud!
Glad there was NOT a picture to go with that memory! Embarrassing!
POINTS2PONDER Why is it that one man’s junk can be another man’s treasure? Why does one man throw away what another’s been searching for? Why does it take someone else wanting it for us to know how much we want to keep it? What does it take for us to just be grateful for what we have?
And in the midst of all of this-- I found it!
And it only cost a dollar!
What a find!
In a pile of stuff marked—“Everything’s a Dollar!”
It was my life’s mantra— being picked up and put back by everybody else—just waiting for me!
I say this every day of my life; at work, at home, on the phone, to myself.
And I had never run across it on a piece of wood, painted for all to see!
It said, “It’s All Good! My attitude is gratitude!”
I just stopped and did that LOL—literally! I could not believe it—there it was, just waiting for me—I’d been waiting my whole life to find it..and it was only a dollar!
You could tell it was a relic from the 1970’s – one of those catchphrases that apparently did NOT catch on—except with me!
It’s the way I live…it’s what I say, sometimes sincerely, sometimes…sarcastically, but…I really DO say it every day!
“It’s all good!” and I shrug my shoulders and smile that smile that says…it’s just good to be alive!
Do you ever feel that way? No matter how many curves in the road, you know--.you can still see the sun in the horizon, and…It’s all good!
Maybe you need someone to want something you have that you take for granted…before you will realize the value in what you have in your hand!
Like your health? Or your spouse? Or your kids? Or your grandkids? Or just your attitude toward life?
You’d be surprised-- the things we take for granted…others would die to have!
One man’s junk…just may be another man’s treasure!
It’s all good!
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