We were supposed to spend today getting rid of clutter. For the past three weeks, we've been clearing out closets....one pile for sea shipment, one pile for storing here in Detroit, one pile for garbage and another for the garage sale. Man, do we have a lot of stuff for that sale. Unfortunately, all the rain from Hurricane Ike soaked today's garage sale. So now not only do we have the dining room and foyer filled with garage sale items, we spent the suddenly free day BUYING stuff to take with us. Oh man! We bought pillows, garbage cans, cookie sheets, mattresses, a chair, 10 pairs of shoes and a bunch of other stuff. We definitely went in the wrong direction. It looks like the neighborhood garage sale may happen next Saturday. Please pray for a sunny day.
While you're praying, think of young Mr. Jackson tomorrow at 1 p.m. He is taking his road test for his driver's license. You can't drive in Brazil till you're 18 but we didn't want all his classes here to expire by the time he gets back. So if he passes tomorrow and then goes to the Secretary of State next week, he'll be able to drive for about two weeks. Poor guy.
SUNDAY UPDATE: He passed! Thanks for the good vibes all.
2 comments:
Excellent idea to take mattresses with you- the ones in Brasil are awful. Well, you CAN get good ones, for the price of a house. When we were up in the northern part of Brasil, we actually slept on boards wrapped in batting (sold at the local market).
you can get good mattresses in São Paulo (even US brands like Sealy). They are just more expensive. I second ray´s earlier comment about getting a dryer these are rare and not good in Brazil- get a gas one, it will be cheaper for your utility bill. US washers are better, but the Brazilian ones work fine. If you have the shipping room, take whatever you want, but ray is right, you can get everything in SP (even Starbucks!!). I am happy with our Brazilian mattresses, oven, frig, microwave and TV. They were just more expensive to get in Brazil. Of course the up side of buying in Brazil is that there will be someone to fix it if it dies. Even if you buy a product that has customer service in Brazil (like Panasonic), they may not have the parts for updated models. We brought a $50 boombox back from CostCo on one of the last trips and after a couple of months the CD part stopped working. The Panasonic people in Brazil could not get the part since they don´t carry the same model in Brazil, so we ended up having to buy a Brazilian one anyway.
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