Hi, everyone, welcome back to About on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor. And it's Book Club Day. We are talking about notes on your sudden disappearance by Allison S.Pack. And I don't know how to finish that sentence. Well, I don't know what you thought of the book. So I'm looking forward to talking to you about it. Well, before we get into that, let's do some highs and lows. Tell me what your high is.

My high is that Jake and I had a yard sale, which I have been wanting to do for a long time.

We had a big one once in Philly, and it was such a good experience. We made a decent amount of

money. We purged the house. It's a very social thing. And I've been wanting to do one. The weather looked good last weekend. And the town next to us has kind of like a neighborhood wide yard sale day, which is one of my favorite days. But I thought we could kind of like, you know, go off of that. Like, people are

already going around looking for yard sales, so why don't we do it as well? So we woke up at six

in the morning, gathered all of our items. It was very low key, put them outside. And it was a lot of

furniture, a lot of chairs, because as I've learned, I tend to collect a lot of chairs in my thrifting and

life path. And so we ended up having this like little outdoor living room set in our driveway

for the whole morning, which was really kind of funny. And I will say that our average customer age was probably about 77 or so,

which I don't think was good for the type of items I had. You know, I just, I don't think it really

vibe with their taste. It was like you already owned this. I bought it. And now I'm trying to sell it back to

you. Something like that. Yeah. And I have a lot of like mid-century modern style things because I was more into that handful of years ago. So just, you know, it wasn't their thing. A lot of men in Camel looking for tools like a lot. But we did manage to make a couple hundred dollars.

And the best part was that we had friends of ours come by and they were nice enough that they

brought a bottle of wine. And then at the same time they arrived, this other couple around our age

arrived. And we were all staying there talking. And I was like, well, do you guys all just want to stay and hang out?

So we all sat in like our little fake outdoor living room for the rest of the afternoon and had some

wine and talked and we gave them the house tour. And so we made new friends. We hung out with

local friends. Pillar of the

community, Olivia. Pillar of the community. And we sold some stuff. Well, you know, it felt good just to

be social in a kind of weird new way. And also just to get stuff out of the house. Because even though

there was a lot of things we didn't sell, now they're like on their

way to being donated somewhere, you know? So it was a good end of summer beginning of fall

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