Save the World

Save the World!

Help the Klekners!

Dave and Pam Klekner, 34 Signal Hill Blvd, are moving. They are downsizing, consolidating, simplifying, reducing, and scaling back. Everything they want to keep is out of the house. Everything left in the house is for sale!

But wait!

All money raised from this event will be donated to several projects in the Honduran mountain village of Monte Verde. Monte Verde is a remote village populated by the Lenca Indians. The Lenca live in mud huts and eat rice, beans, and corn tortillas. At times they have only one meal per day. All money raised from the Klekners' down-sizing sale will support projects that improve the quality of life in this Lenca village.

Please join us

Saturday, November 7, 8-12 for a

fund-raising, goodbye-saying, bargain-getting event like no other!

This event is not being advertised publicly. However, please help us by forwarding the e-mail to friends or bring a friend or a friend of a friend. And bring lots of cash!

If you are not a shopper, please come and enjoy some coffee and donuts and visit with neighbors and friends. This is not only a sale but their final Boulevard social event. Many books are also available for adoption. Please join us.

If you are not able to come on Saturday, call Nancy for a sale by appointment.

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So this is the email that went out today. My neighbors are moving and the wife (Pam) was freaking out about selling the excess. After we planned the sale, she sent me an email that said, "Now I am looking forward to something that I was dreading."

This is how we make the world a better place, People!

So I'm going through her stuff. She has 20 years of stuff. I first thought it was just furniture and wall art left. But I started opening drawers and found: cassette tapes, VHS tapes, old pencil boxes, blank DVDs, spices, cups, bowls, old blankets...

There is a whole category of stuff that we become blind to after 20 years. You just HAVE a pile of extra blankets. You don't NEED them. You just KEEP them. Just in case. And when you are moving, what do you do? Their lake house is furnished and stocked. They have packed the personal stuff and the memorabilia. But what about the in-between stuff? You can't throw it away! It's perfectly good stuff! And it has history! But give it to Goodwill? Will they appreciate its emotional significance?

Downsizing is painful.

So far, Laura, Sam, and I have offered good homes to: 15 sundae glasses, a few pairs of pants, some kitchen utensils, ten books, a candle holder with tea lights, and a floor mat for Laura's mom's car.