“How much do you want me to put on it?” That is the question heard around our house as we prepared for this latest garage sale. Everybody in the family has things that they want sold to either make more room, recoup some lost funds, or just plain cash out so that they can buy something else. I am left astonished that things we paid good money for and had to have just a few short months ago, can be worth so little now. In fact, I find myself wanting to keep the prices really low just so that it will go, and I won’t have to deal with the clutter anymore. All of this begs the question do we really need all of this junk anyway. The answer is easy…NO…EMPHATICALLY NO! Stuff is definitively over rated! Especially when you consider that the Bible tells us that it is all wood, hay, and stubble anyway and will be consumed by fire when Jesus returns. It is too bad that it takes us so long to figure out how little value these things will have to us. From now on before I buy something, I am going to ask myself the question, “what will it bring at a garage sale a year from now?”, and see if that tempers my desire to purchase it.
An answer to the question…"What is he thinking?!?"
Oh So True! We are making the wrong investments. I like your future strategy. I think I will ask myself the same question! :-)