So this weekend my friend had her yard sale. Our family loves to hang out her family anyway, so we took most of our extras to her house. This was definitely a "get rid of it" kind of sale. She made about $200 and I made exactly $100.50! Which was not bad at all. And more importantly, that stuff is gone. When it was all over, I pulled out all the trendy/high quality/brand name clothing from the pile, and I will take it to a consignment store tomorrow. And then we hauled everything else to the thrift store and made a large donation. Done!
I found lots of VHS tapes and some home movies when I was cleaning out a week or two ago. And I just found out that Costco will do the transfer to a DVD. Their prices seem to be much better than places I found locally or online, so I think I will try it out with a few tapes this week. We've also been converting old photographs to digital files, and I'm so pleased. Those digital files take up a ton less space. 
And yes, we've backed everything up on the hard drive and on flash drives. We can do the photos ourselves, but not the VHS since we no longer own a VCR. It's okay, because I don't think I would have time to do it right now, anyway.
Gas prices seem to have gone up again.
We had another busy and exhausting weekend, which will make for an interesting week. All good, just busy.
Another Garage Sale and Digital Files
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Great job on the sale! I, too, would take the high end stuff to consignment...similar to garage sale prices generally. And the rest is gone? Yipee!!
August 6th, 2012 at 02:26 pm 1344263182
Yes, more details on how you're doing the photos, please (long on my to-do list) Thanks!
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How long since you've looked at our VHS tapes? What criteria will you use to choose DVD transfer? If they're old TV programs or movies you don't see as 'Classic' is it worth the cost $20. ea. 2 VHS tapes? I see Walgreens likewise use YesVideo to process.
If you wish to transfer more than 8 tapes, I suggest contacting the middle/high school computer instructor who can likely facilitate using a computer literate student who likely has the program and wants to learn and earn.
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