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My name is Rhonda Nunley and I am the Owner of River Valley Estate Sales of Kentucky. After deciding to try a web page, I thought I should tell my journey to date. So, my story will start out like...When I was growing up I was a tiny bit of a loner, I had friends but not really close ones. My only sibling is eight years older than me so she didn't need me around (understandably). My dad had a excavating business and I loved the days I was allowed to go to work with him. Dad taught me a lot about how to treat people. The importance of doing a good job and being fair and honest. He was always just Otis Lunsford, nothing more and nothing less, just down to earth plain and simple. I find it very hard to be anything but myself. I am what I am. And I thank my dad for that.
My love for collecting, buying and selling was probably nurtured by my Aunt Bonnie, one of my moms sisters. She was the yard sale queen of her time! She would take me to all the sales, sparking an interest in me. So while other little girls were playing with Barbie Dolls, I was cleaning out my room to set up a tiny garage sale for family and friends to come shop.
Skipping ahead several years, I was very comfortable being a wife and mom. I felt safe in my home not having to deal with other people. Until band happened. Our son, Colton, was a trombone player in the Russell High Marching and Concert Band. When he became involved we decided to be a part of it to support him. And that forced me out into the world just a bit. I was out of my comfort zone. About the same time Brett had to have back surgery and while he had a very good job, I didn't work outside of the house. All the sudden we were looking at a bad back, medical bills, a mortgage, monthly bills, a kid in high school, looking at college and going to Europe with a state band and I'm not working! Things got scary but Thank God he got us through it. I picked up part time jobs here and there but hated leaving my family. Right about then is when we discovered Ebay, which slowly brought back my love of collecting, buying and selling. Brett returned back to work and I kept learning and working on Ebay.
After a few years of selling on Ebay, I was asked by a friend if I would be interested in helping out at her shop. That really surprised me and made me a bit nervous. I was sure that I would mess things up and do everything wrong. But I grew into it and kept learning. Before I knew it I had fit in pretty well. I helped out at another antique shop as well. I was actually feeling at ease around people in a business setting and people seemed to like me. After work at the shops started slowing down I started feeling antsy and things on Ebay weren't selling fast enough. I was sitting more than doing. Brett started talking about retirement and I know he's looking forward to it because he's put in a lot of years, but I wasn't ready to hear that and didn't want to slow down. And there you have it, that's when I decided that I was going to do estate sales. The thoughts of doing something like that in the past pretty much cut my air off. But after a lot of life changes, I thought, I'm jumping in. And I LOVE It!!! I wish I had taken the chance on me years ago.
Doing estate sales is a lot of work but I really enjoy meeting the people that need a sale done and seeing all the same familiar faces that come in to shop.
It is so important to me to make people happy with a job well done by River Valley Estate Sales 🙂