Unqualified WINS (& one shit show)

Today I'm reviewing The Really Really Free Market, which took place for the first time on April 10th 2021 in the Gateway Discovery Park in Portland! It's supposed to happen every second Saturday going forward so this is a superb consolation prize for losing the Twilight Rummage Sale. More on that subject later.

RRFM is on Instagram. Like me, most attendees brought bags and boxes of clothes and things and just spread them on a blanket or picnic table. Food Not Bombs served sandwiches and other lunchy food, and I got chicken and beans from another table. A couple artists made crafts for giveaway and some folks brought coverings on poles for their spaces. I did a little research and apparently there have been other RRFMs in other parts of town in years past. 

I brought a bunch of clothes and I enticed one of my friends into doing the same. I loved it because I could leave everything on the picnic bench while I went around looking. I have to admit that most of what I took home I'll be bringing back next month because it didn't fit, but that's ok.    

With regard to the Twilight Rummage Sale, the Covid-19 restrictions made it impossible to happen anymore. As if that weren't enough, the Eagles Lodge where it happened was abruptly shut down, so if the events I've written about ever happen again they'll be elsewhere.  It's really sad that it all ended this way. When I started selling things at the sale it was partly to help me make room for the new life I had to start after losing my husband and it became a place where I had so many friends and memories. 

At least Village Merchants is still going strong. I brought them some clothing in exchange for trade credit. I'm looking for gardening implements and VM has those as well as tools, housewares, and of course clothing. I found some tomato cages for a couple bucks each!

In more good news: I am now fully vaccinated as of yesterday. I had aches, fever and chills as well as weird fatigue and heaviness in my whole body, but it's worth it! I'd do it again!  

Finally: I had an accident on my bike last week and sprained my left arm. I braked to avoid getting hit by a car and my bike fell on me. It's been over a week now and I'm doing a lot better. I hope I'll be back to my normal work duties when my weekend is over.

This is enough for now. I'll have another post soon about my latest Buy Nothing page activity as well as some other organizing stuff I'm up to. Thanks for looking!