Saturday, January 8, 2011

Item 8: a baby swing


What is this doing in our garage?  We bought it two years ago at a garage sale.  I think we paid $2 or $3 for it.  As you can see it has never been used.  We bought it from our neighbor down the street.  Apparently someone bought it for them (or maybe they bought it themselves but I hope not because they don't have any trees in their yard) but they couldn't use it because they don't have any trees in their yard.  :-)

We bought it for our grandson.  We gave it to him for his (I think) first birthday or sometime around his first birthday.  But it ended up back at our house.  I thought they could hang it from their porch but since we have it I suppose they didn't think that was a good idea.  

So for two years this swing has been in our garage.  Each time Ben visits, he asks to use it.  We have trees but they're 'junk' trees and we're concerned they may not be strong enough to support a child in a swing.  

I think two years of collecting dust in the garage is long enough.  The swing will be sold at our garage sale this spring.  I hope the third time is a charm and the person who buys it from us actually uses it for its intended purpose.    

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