If anything goes wrong while they're home alone, they'll have to get up early on Saturdays again and go with Mum and Dad to every single garage sale in town.

The huge chandelier came from our city home, and the bed cover was found in a brocante in the south of France and for many years was used as a curtain before an expert told me it was a bedspread.

The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it at yard sales, since those are the only businesses still in the United States.