Donate to a Good Cause

Two weeks ago, JJ and I went on the hunt for a new dresser. The one he had was falling apart... there were handles missing, a few of the drawers either wouldn't open or wouldn't close and because of that it was a pain for JJ to get anything out and more importantly, put anything away! So there are constantly mountains of clothes on the floor. Most of the time I can't tell what's dirty and what's clean but it's a system that has been working for him for awhile so for the most part he knows where things are. Well, a few weeks ago, JJ got up early, scouted out Craigslist for all the local garage sales and then off we went on the hunt! We came back empty handed that day. (Well, not totally! I did find a nice white board for one dollar for work!) But two weeks ago a patient of ours brought in a flier about a huge local garage sale so I thought we should go check it out. I got up early and scouted out the other garage sales in the area just in case and I'm glad I did. We ended up at a garage sale that was a benefit for the homeless shelter. All proceeds went to the homeless shelter for everything that they sold AND there was another organization that was going to match the amount of money that was made and donate that to the homeless shelter. We found a dresser! It's in great shape! Just needs a little sanding and staining and it'll be ready to go. We paid $40 for it which was a great price for us AND that means the homeless shelter will get $80! I also dropped $5 into there donation jar before we left. It was great to find a wonderful dresser and I was happy that we contributed to a good cause.

As a funny side note, after we bought the dresser we dropped it off and went around town looking at the other garage sales just for fun... Well we pulled off the road to turn around after visiting one garage sale and JJ's car got stuck! It was a little sandy and we were just spinning our wheels! Literally! So as we are standing there trying to figure out what to do these two little ladies came by (they were probably in there mid-60's) and one of them said, "Well how much effort do you think it would take to push it out?" We weren't sure but I hoped in the car to give it a little gas and guidance while these two ladies helped JJ push from the front. We were out in no time flat. Not 15 minutes earlier I had put that $5 bill in the donation jar at the homeless shelter fund raiser and here we were chasing in on some good karma. Haha. Have a great day everyone! I hope your progress is still coming along as well as mine is! =)

~Wendy