One of the many items that I currently own but will "ditch" (sell, give away, donate, toss, lose, etc.) before the westward migration will be my thick royal blue Columbia jacket. I've had this jacket for seven or eight years. The jacket looks great, and despite the age on the jacket, it looks hardly used. Columbia makes some good stuff - or at least it made me a durable jacket.
This jacket, which slightly resembles "Cookie Monster blue," has kept me warm and toasty in the long and frigid New Englanders. I don't know how many blizzards the jacket has kept me warm while I shoveled snow and cleared off my car. It had even protected me as I slid down ski slopes slightly bruised and definitely ungracefully on my arse.
. . . but I hear that the winters in LA aren't that frigid and I'm not even sure if the temperatures dip low enough to warrant a New Englander to even break out the fleece (well, maybe a fleece vest). Who knows - I've yet to learn about those rainy winters.
Anyway, I figured I would try to sell my jacket and use whatever I manage to get for it toward the purchase of a new (or used) jacket that will get me through one more winter yet will be versatile enough so that I can wear during the mild winter temps in SoCal. Bye bye thick polyfilled jacket--hello, three-in-one jacket systems.
To make a long story short (or "a long story longer" as my sister always says I managed to do when narrating an event), I tried Craigslist (interested parties who never showed up) and eBay. I had taken numerous photos (one would think I was selling a house--which I will, later on) and carefully washed, dried and packaged it so it would be ready to ship.
Two eBay postings later, my auction ended with no bids. I feel guilty buying a new jacket while I still have my old (but faithful and immacuate) blue jacket. Guess what I'll be wearing while I'm shoveling out from under this season's first snow storm?
You guessed it. I'll be dressed in Cookie Monster blue.
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