Date:   8/26/2007 7:51:17 PM ( 18 y ago)
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Oh yes, I so agree with your insight that creativity
is born of necessity. (BIG grin) and I also feel the
way you do that you never run out of things to do and
ways to do them. We are the lucky ones to have lived
through those times when we did. Or at least I think
those times did contribute to the way I view my life.
Kids today would never have the kind of freedom I
did. That freedom or sense of it helped me become who
I am today.

Ha~! No, once I left the business, I rarely went to a
yard sale and would like to feel like I have retired
from auctions. I enjoy finding things I need on ebay
and once I find somewhere to resettle, I would probably
go to auctions to find another stash of garden tools
and items to fill in the gaps that separating households
in divorce seem to cause.

I did watch roadshow in the past and my friend's husband
loves that show. He just discovered ebay since we finally
were able to simplify computer skills to his satisfaction.
He is already selling and buying and his weekly phone calls
tell me of recent buys and equally great sales.

I am thrilled for you and your husband that you have found
activities which are satisfying and profitable. I was raised
wheeling and dealing, and learned much from an older brother
who was always trading up and up. My mother, in her late
70's still makes and sells chocolates, and sells veggies
to people who come to her door looking for them. It was she
who drug us every week to those sit down auctions which
was a whole lot more fun than being drug to the corner bar
which also happened. Between the two places, life was never
boring and provided us an education hard to come by at any
age...ggg.

Another person I would like to give credit to was an uncle
who was popular with us kids. He would drink a little too
much and sing to us. One little ditty went like this...
Chin Chin Chinaman sitting on a fence, trying to make a
dollar out of 15 cents. Couldn't make a dollar, a half dollar
will do, Chin Chin Chinaman, I love you. Seems I have spent
most of my life squeezing as much out of a dollar as I can.
It's been profitable and became a way of life for me which
also provided others with jobs and a life rich in many ways,
not just materially.

Well, I will look forward to YOUR book...ggg. I have contemplated
writing some of my adventures up while I remember them so well
and because I wish I had a book of all the the stories of my
mother and her mother and especially my grandfather who was
known for being a character. I hate that the average amount of
time a modern day parent spends with his child one on one is
40 minutes a week. When do people share stories or live them??
When my daughter tells her children about their grandmother
I want her to be able to share with them the stories which
helped form the values we considered valuable and to perhaps
encourage them to live outside the little boxes that so many
of us tend to hide in.

Ah, and negotiating...wow, now there is a dying art. I know
exactly what you are talking about when you describe your hubby
as almost going into an altered state (tongue-in-cheek) when
negotiating. I liked the team aspect since sometimes men will
treat other men better than women and sometimes women can get
a better deal. Its a fine art and one which would help in other
areas of life, but seems so sorely lacking. People get explosive
over the littlest things it seems nowadays.

I would encourage you to write up a blog. I would come read
your stories~! I began one, called "My Secret Life" which
was going to include my take on the time where I am usually
solo out in the world, and no one knows who I am or where
I am going and in those times, I have met many fine people
and experienced sweet times which would never be known save
for my sharing them. I like remembering too. It is like an
exercise in keeping aware and mentally stimulated. Most of
all, I know and feel blessed that I have good memories.
So many have not found joy in their lives and by the grace
even when I had little to nothing, I was able to see the
silver lining of my life. That blog got swallowed up in
Curezone's crash, but another is percolating deep in my
psyche where the writer in me lives...ggg.

I had a little card someone gave me when I was young and
it hung in my room. I remember looking at it often and
thinking about it. It is probably long gone, but still
the message seems to be relevant to the way I look
at life. On it read...

"I may be in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars".

Life is a trip...happy adventuring~!

be happy, be well,
Zoe

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