church recycling sale
Aug. 19th, 2018 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingThe thing about getting out of the house is that before I leave, I often feel that I intensely don't want to go do Things -- I am too tired, I can't face dealing with people, the weather is terrible, whatever -- yet I start feeling better as I walk and by the time I arrive and start doing the Things in question, I generally enjoy them and have a fine time.
I have been like this since childhood, and I am thoroughly aware that this is how I work, but it can still be tricky to judge when I am genuinely too tired/drained to do something, and when I'm just slogging through defensive inertia.
Anyway, in the event I was NOT actually too tired to go spend 7 hours volunteering at my church's recycling sale, though I did flop into bed for a 45-minute nap soon after I returned home.
I arrived at 9am and spent the first half hour helping set up the outside sale, after which I received my assignments for the day: outside sale 10am-noon, crafts & holiday room noon-2pm, and furniture sale 2-4pm. I've done the crafts & holiday room a lot, but I'd never worked the outside sale or the furniture sale before, so it was a day of new experiences, and now I will be willing to volunteer for those spots next year. (I make a point of saying I will work anywhere EXCEPT adult clothing -- this is a self-preservation measure, since people are astonishingly bad about washing cat dander off their clothes before donating them -- but in practice that's usually been crafts & holiday, with occasional stints in the toys & games room or the linens room.)
I stole ten minutes here and there between shifts to poke around the rest of the sale, and I spent a grand total of $2 on a couple of soft long-sleeved shirts that will make excellent pajama tops, plus two packs of Xmas/holiday cards that should last me through 2020. (Sunday is half-price day and it's lovely. *grin*)
And now I think I will spend my evening doing nothing in particular, before heading to bed early since Monday's going to be another busy day.
I have been like this since childhood, and I am thoroughly aware that this is how I work, but it can still be tricky to judge when I am genuinely too tired/drained to do something, and when I'm just slogging through defensive inertia.
Anyway, in the event I was NOT actually too tired to go spend 7 hours volunteering at my church's recycling sale, though I did flop into bed for a 45-minute nap soon after I returned home.
I arrived at 9am and spent the first half hour helping set up the outside sale, after which I received my assignments for the day: outside sale 10am-noon, crafts & holiday room noon-2pm, and furniture sale 2-4pm. I've done the crafts & holiday room a lot, but I'd never worked the outside sale or the furniture sale before, so it was a day of new experiences, and now I will be willing to volunteer for those spots next year. (I make a point of saying I will work anywhere EXCEPT adult clothing -- this is a self-preservation measure, since people are astonishingly bad about washing cat dander off their clothes before donating them -- but in practice that's usually been crafts & holiday, with occasional stints in the toys & games room or the linens room.)
I stole ten minutes here and there between shifts to poke around the rest of the sale, and I spent a grand total of $2 on a couple of soft long-sleeved shirts that will make excellent pajama tops, plus two packs of Xmas/holiday cards that should last me through 2020. (Sunday is half-price day and it's lovely. *grin*)
And now I think I will spend my evening doing nothing in particular, before heading to bed early since Monday's going to be another busy day.
