One day you have a good job, a nice home and good health – so you think. Then you go to Doctor to find out why your indigestion keeps getting worse and why you’re so tired all time. You just kept thinking that you were working to hard and probably way too many hours – which you were just to keep your job.

Then you find out you have to have a multiple bypass operation on your heart. You have 90% blockages in two arteries and 50% blockage in three more arteries. After you pick yourself up off floor from that good news and let it sink in.

You think, well I better call my boss and tell him I want be in for a couple of months. So you call and tell him what is going on and ask for some time off, without pay of course. As you will need time for operation and recovery period.

Well your Boss is all so very understanding and says he hopes you get to feeling better, etc. Then you get -- “Oh by way” speech. He proceeds to tell you – “Our company policy is that if you can’t work when, where and how we tell you to work then we don’t need you -- So you’re fired and good luck”!

Now that really gets you in right frame of mind to be going into surgery, doesn’t it?

Well you DO have best Doctor in three states and you come through surgery great. Then they move you from Cardiac Care Unit to your room for a few more days of recovery before they send you home. Everything with your surgery has gone great but now you start worrying about all bills and finding another job, etc.

All worry starts hampering your recovery and Doctor tells you -- “Let’s get you well and then you’ll be able to find yourself another good job”! But you have to get well first.

Up until now you thought things were starting to look rather burdensome until “IT” happens to you. Everything up until now has just been warming you up for final blow. Your wife is on way back to hospital, to stay with you for evening, when she gets a call from neighbors. They tell her “you need to get back to your house ASAP”!

When she gets there house is in flames and firemen are busy trying to save what’s left. They manage to get a couple things out and a few pictures – but that’s it. Then neighbor’s remember they haven’t seen your puppy. He’s like your child since children have all grown up and moved off and he is all two of you have left. The firemen race back into house and save him. But within a few hours he succumbs to smoke inhalation complications and dies.

First, of course, you need to get your sales items together. Garage sales are a great way to recycle stuff that you no longer have room for. You’d be surprised what doodads and miscellany your neighbors will want—musty books, old silver wear, framed photos of long-lost third cousins, and other unmentionables that you’ve had no use for since who knows when. Even more surprising, your neighbors are willing to shell out cold hard cash for these items. That makes your garage sale a win-win proposition for you.

Come to think of it, though, a garage sale at your home can be a real chore. It takes a Herculean effort to collect and organize every last little thing you want to sell. Then you have to tag each item and keep track of it in a hardcopy log. To ensure that your neighbors show up with cash in hand, you must create, print up, and pay for flyers, which need to be distributed on telephone poles and supermarket message boards across region. The work can seem endless and your chances of making a profit slim.

Don’t get me wrong. Your garage sale was a great idea, but as you can see, there are many limitations to holding one at your house old-fashioned way. Get with times. The garage sale has evolved thanks to multitude of Web sites that allow you to sell your goods online. People are selling more stuff than ever on Internet because of convenience of Web classified sites.