Life on the Road

I have to apologize for yesterday’s post title– it was supposed to be about how I’ve felt like a truck hit me, after my 5-day, 5-plane trip out West. Instead, I whined about the airlines’ new policy on seating.

So, a return, I suppose. I managed to get through the entire trip without succumbing too much to the “stuff acquisition” temptations, though I did buy a couple of used books at Powell’s in Portland. I also lost a very nice gold bracelet on my trip, something that makes me sad whenever I think on it– my husband gave that bracelet to me, and it was the second nicest piece of jewelry I own.  One of the things I liked about it was that it had blue stones– nobody ever buys me blue jewelry because it doesn’t go well with my coloring, and my birthstone is peridot (which is kind of a crappy washed out green stone, btw). But he had seen this bracelet and decided to give it to me, perhaps thinking it would be pretty on my arm, or maybe because he realized that blue is one of my very favorite colors.

Dangit. I don’t mind parting with”things” if I’m ready to do so, but I hate it when I lose stuff.

Yesterday, before we left Eastern Massachusetts, I disassembled the great wheel that I inherited from my grandmother and took it to the auction house to be sold. My reasoning went like this: I don’t have space. For the amount of hassle and expense it will take to transport it from here to our storage locker in California, I can buy one out in California. It’s not a family heirloom; so far as I know, it’s been at least 5 generations since anyone in my family was a spinner, and we know the provenance of this wheel is that it was bought at a thrift store. It’s also non-functioning: in an RV, everything has to have two functions, and “a big block of useless wood” is not an acceptable function.

So, away to the auction it goes. I’m also putting up an eBay auction as soon as we’re settled in somewhere for a few days. I have a whole box of electronics that I need to get rid of, everything from my Sony Reader to a spare Bluetooth headset.  I’m thinking of writing the auction description something like this: “I live in a small space– a motorhome– and I need to sell this stuff so I can afford to buy ebooks for my Amazon Kindle. Please buy my stuff– it all works, and you’ll get many hours of amusement out of it, I promise!”

As ad copy, I don’t think it wins any awards, but every so often, someone comes up with a hilarious listing on eBay that seems to drive the price up.  And even if it doesn’t, at least I’ll have found homes for these various electronics that I’m, frankly, just not using anymore.

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