Clean Sweep

And quite a few chairs. 

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We had a lot of furniture including these bureaus. 

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This is the school and art supplies table beautifully organized by Emma. 

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I personally organized this table. It was a challenge because it had the most random merch on it. 

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Love In The Time of Serial Killers (adult romance)

     PhD candidate Phoebe is writing her dissertation on an unusual topic: serial killers. It's become an obsession for her.  Not becoming a victim of one colors all her thoughts and actions...

     ...So, when returning to her dead father's house to clean it and make it suitable to sell, hopefully with some help from her brother, she is trying to figure out how to move an ultra heavy desk from the roof of her car in the middle of the night and is approached by a stranger, her mind jumps to the worst case scenario. 

     "But wasn't that exactly how guys like him broke into your defenses? By appearing helpful, like the Zodiac Killer telling you your wheel was wobbling and offering to 'fix' it for you, only to sabotage your car and take it hostage. Or by appearing to be helpless, like Ted Bundy with his fake casts, needing help carrying something to his car."

     Phoebe starts seeing him fairly frequently engaging in pretty suspicious activities. He's gotta be stalking her, getting ready to swoop in for the kill. Why else would he be hanging out in her neighborhood?...

     ...Maybe because Sam is her next door neighbor?...

     ...Which Phoebe doesn't find exactly reassuring. To be fair, she's having a bad summer. Cleaning and renovating is proving to be a daunting task. Her father was a hoarder. There's so much stuff to go through. And the house is in serious need of updating. Just being there is stirring up a lot of feelings and memories. Her brother, Conner, is obsessed with planning a unique way to propose to his girlfriend. 

     The deadline for completing Phoebe's thesis is fast approaching. But every time she communicates with her very critical adviser she does what she does best...

     ...procrastinates...

     ...Meanwhile she's beginning to suspect that, rather than a serial killer wannabe, Sam just might be a nice guy music teacher, maybe even a romance prospect...

     ...But can she convince him of her changed feelings before it's too late?

     Fans of the enemy to love prospect romance genre will find Love In The Time of Serial Killers simply irresistible. 

On a purrrsonal note, this week we're cleaning up from Clean Sweep. We're packing up the unsold merch and distributing it to a number of charitable organizations according to their needs. Bangor Humane Society needs towels and bedding for dogs. Welcome To Housing needs anything formerly unhoused people need to equip their new apartments...Orono Health Association could use the six pairs of crutches. There's a group for everything. We're taking the bags and boxes of food donations to the campus food pantry, checking every item's expiration date of course. And we're going to leave the hockey arena as clean as we found it. We should be done by the end of the week. 

A great big shout out goes out to our awesome crew.

Jules Hathaway 

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This is an overview of some of the tabled merch. Note how well it's categorized and arranged. Well I've got a bus to catch. More pictures in a couple of days. Promise. 

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Yes, there still were stuffies left after I took my favorite Squishmallows. This table emptied very fast. We had a unusual number of families with kids.

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