My niece Roberta, lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She loves to garage sale with her daughter Kelly and her D-I-L Tara. So for the last several years, they have taken a list of things I need for the Hawley Bed & Breakfast and purchased items.
North of C. S. is the Black Forest, Monument, Palmer and other areas where many people who have lots of disposable income live. They have very nice items and many times just want to change, move or for whatever reason get rid of many things.
The main things she has purchased for me has been rugs. I have beautiful rugs, but they have all been purchased at garage sales. Then when I visit in the summer, we lay them all out on the concrete drive and vacum them and shampoo them. They sun dry and then we roll them and make them ready for the trip to Lincoln.
Some of the other items she has purchased for my house are table and chairs, bedside tables, lamps of all kinds, sinks for the bath remodels, iron, ironing board, comforter sets, mixer, food processor, toaster, etc. Also wicker furniture and other porch furniture.
They love to garage sale, we get fantastic bargins and she keeps it until I visit next time. We have a van so we take out all but the front 2 seats and go out to CS empty then fill the van to drive back home.
This is really a family effort.
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- Hawley House
- John and Peggy have been married 46 years. John semi retired January 2007 and is fully retired in the summer of 2008. Peggy works full time at the University of Nebraska. We have 2 children Robert and Leeza. We also have 8 grandchildren. All live in Lincoln and we enjoy having them close. The Hawley Bed & Breakfast was open for 6 years. Now the Hawley House is in an 1890's Victorian built as two town homes that has been opened into one home and is a local historical landmark. We will be moving into the home in 2011 from across the street. We have 3 dogs Miko (12), Snoopy (10) & Sophie (8).
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