Wedding Blog - Big Day minus 193

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While the wedding day approaches all too rapidly, the available time to check out the various vendors remains scarce. Hence, no real progress or decisions to report to you here. I will probably digress on the slower days to talk about some of the background areas, like our first meeting with FSIL, our own engagement and wedding, family reaction and comments, that sort of thing.

BD is having conniptions. FSIL is planning a visit in the middle of next month, during which the two of them are planning to have engagement photos taken (among other things; Dad ain't THAT naive!). He requested the leave time early in the year. BD has requested vacation time and received permission. As of now, less than two weeks away, FSIL has still not received any official word on his leave request. Neither a yea nor a nay. I realize that the Army is the world's biggest bureaucracy, or at least its most entrenched (ha, ha), but time is getting a bit tight here.

Just to make sure that it's in the blog and not just my regular posts, I'll mention again that I'm cleaning out the clutter that has been in the house for years. Let's see, I have seven months. That might be enough time. A big part of the clutter is my old collections of paper - mostly comic books and related material, but also old humor magazines, Boston sports yearbooks, random movie and concert programs, Disneyland maps and brochures from a visit in 1977 ... you get the idea. I intend to sell as much of it as I can on eBay, and put all proceeds into a "wedding fund". Don't know what I'll do with what doesn't sell. It may be worth something, but with the economy the way it is, people may not be buying.

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Just to make sure that it's in the blog and not just my regular posts, I'll mention again that I'm cleaning out the clutter that has been in the house for years.

Will your house be used for part of the wedding festivities and is all of this accumuated stuff stored in "public" areas? It's great that you might be able to finance part of the the wedding from the proceeds, but perhaps some of the decluttering might be put off to a later time?

MarleysMom has also been cleaning out some old stuff and it seems like special arrangements must be made to deliver every item to someone who can use it. Like a file of old magazine clippings and some crafting odds and ends, which had to go to a kindergarten teacher across the street. Then there was a 40 year old catalog of dress patterns; I said I could drop that off at the Friends of the Library, then Mom wanted to know who it ended up going to. No, Mom, that's not how the sale works. It might sell or the sorter for that category might decide it's worthless and throw it in the recycling bin. Either way, I'll never see it again.