Saturday

Yesterday was a full day. Dan and I went to Phil’s for breakfast and then we met my aunt at the condo to sort through her clothing. Ok there is no doubt that my mom had good fashion sense, but oh my goodness did she ever have a lot of clothing. She had been using Ebay over the past 5 years or so to buy April Cornell dresses, sweaters and outfits and seriously had over 100 items in that brand alone. She had always told me how much they were worth (retail $60, Ebay $25-$30) and said I should resell them on Ebay. A good idea if there were 5 or 10, but I think I would be doing that for the rest of my life. So I called the two local consignment stores and took them over. The first lady was so incredibly happy to have the dresses that she took practically everthing and was happy to do it. The second lady took the rest. There are still sweaters and jackets which are too nice not to consign so we will do that next week.

Next we had to sort out her pet clothing. She had a pet dog and was very talented when it came to sewing so she had made a variety of “jackets” for her dog and was also selling them at the farmer’s market across the street. Again, there were hundreds of them. I sorted them into two different grades based on how fancy they were. We will try to consign the fancy ones in the pet stores in Westmount and the others I took to the pet store. They couldn’t buy them but decided to have a charity auction and donate the money to a fund for helping pets that would otherwise end up euthanized at the SPCA, and do it in her name. My cousin Brad and his son arrived and helped us load up some more boxes.

We came back for supper and then Dan and I hoped to catch a movie but nothing was playing that we wanted to see. So instead we walked out to the main road and tried to go to Arby’s (it was closed) but did find dill pickle chip dip. We also went to Sobey’s and found a particular salad dressing mix I can’t get in Quebec and also some BC wine that isn’t sold in Quebec. We thought about stealing a milk crate from the pizza place but changed our minds. Then for the hilight of the evening – Dan went to the Starbucks and remembered he had a Starbucks gift card in his wallet. I think I gave it to him 4 years ago since we haven’t really gone to Starbucks in Montreal. Anyway, how he managed to keep this in his wallet all this time yet not have his library card with him is beyond me. We checked the balace and it as … 63 cents! So he bought a coffee and we were off home.

When we got back we played monopoly with my nephew Chase (who has only ever lost twice in his life) and I totally owned him. I think he still thinks I’m ok though.