In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Trying to figure out how to get rid of things without help.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Trying to figure out how to get rid of things without help.
You and me both, Brenda.
Aborted my first attempt at getting an extremely heavy 2 seater leather recliner couch out of my basement to get it to the curb. Realized then that there were brackets that were easily removed on the bottom to cut it in half. Still a chore getting it outside, but there was no way I was going to get that out on my own without messing up walls that I had already refinished.
Also got a computer desk out that I've been using the last 8 years to roll my cigarettes on. I've got a 6 lb. plastic shelf unit my neighbor threw out last month that can do that job.
Two huge pieces of furniture out of my house and out of my life, just in time for garbage day. Who knows? Maybe somebody picks them up tonight and I can get another one out before they pick it up. I'm not banking on it though... Those were by far the most beat up and crappy pieces I had in the house.
Going to be a real shame to get rid of my really nice L-shape couch next, but there's barely enough room for it where it sits in my 20'x15' living room as it is, and there's no way I'd have any use for it in any of the houses I'm going to eventually move into. That will just leave me with the only couch I had when I first moved in. My trusty old couch I slept on for years will be my new bed all over again by next week. It's really light and it's a lazy boy. Quality and easy to move. It will make the trip with me when I'm ready to go.
After that, I think, goes the king size bed that got about 2 weeks worth of use in the last 8 years. I might take that one out to the garage and see if anybody wants to buy it. Barely ever been slept on and doesn't have a spot on it.
Now all I have to do is find another garbage can's worth of crap to fill up before tomorrow and I'll call today a really successful one.
Just those two pieces out of my basement gives me an entirely new perspective down there. It will be so much easier to remodel down there when I don't have heavy shit I never use cluttering up the whole operation. :)
Actually, I can't believe I just did all of that on my own. If you asked me if that was something I'd ever be capable of doing on my own again 2 years ago I would have said you were crazy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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6ix, could you do me a favor?
Hop over to the Unemployment Rate thread, look at the JSF-URF-1 Table that I posted on 3 May.
Let me know how that looks on your computer display. If it wraps, let me know at what letter or column it wraps.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Trying to figure out how to get rid of things without help.
You and me both, Brenda.
Aborted my first attempt at getting an extremely heavy 2 seater leather recliner couch out of my basement to get it to the curb. Realized then that there were brackets that were easily removed on the bottom to cut it in half. Still a chore getting it outside, but there was no way I was going to get that out on my own without messing up walls that I had already refinished.
Also got a computer desk out that I've been using the last 8 years to roll my cigarettes on. I've got a 6 lb. plastic shelf unit my neighbor threw out last month that can do that job.
Two huge pieces of furniture out of my house and out of my life, just in time for garbage day. Who knows? Maybe somebody picks them up tonight and I can get another one out before they pick it up. I'm not banking on it though... Those were by far the most beat up and crappy pieces I had in the house.
Going to be a real shame to get rid of my really nice L-shape couch next, but there's barely enough room for it where it sits in my 20'x15' living room as it is, and there's no way I'd have any use for it in any of the houses I'm going to eventually move into. That will just leave me with the only couch I had when I first moved in. My trusty old couch I slept on for years will be my new bed all over again by next week. It's really light and it's a lazy boy. Quality and easy to move. It will make the trip with me when I'm ready to go.
After that, I think, goes the king size bed that got about 2 weeks worth of use in the last 8 years. I might take that one out to the garage and see if anybody wants to buy it. Barely ever been slept on and doesn't have a spot on it.
Now all I have to do is find another garbage can's worth of crap to fill up before tomorrow and I'll call today a really successful one.
Just those two pieces out of my basement gives me an entirely new perspective down there. It will be so much easier to remodel down there when I don't have heavy shit I never use cluttering up the whole operation. :)
Actually, I can't believe I just did all of that on my own. If you asked me if that was something I'd ever be capable of doing on my own again 2 years ago I would have said you were crazy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Good for you Jack. I can't leave anything anywhere on the property where I am now living. I guess too many people were doing that and the property owners said no more. So, I am left wondering how to do it without paying an arm and a leg.
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BRENDA, do you have charities that take items for donations? Here we have Salvation Army, Goodwill, St Vincent de Paul, and a slew of others. My personal favorite is st Vincent de Paul, which - unlike the others- actually uses the items you donate instead of picking thru the items for a few gems and landfilling the rest.
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JSF: Then I have no explanation for the car/train collision except alcohol/drugs or suicide by train. I'm sure the ME will do his.her best to find out what happened, test remains for drugs, look into past history for evidence of drug use/disability etc,
Did the train honk at me? To tell you the truth I was so rattled by what I SAW my ears kind of shut off. I'm sure it did, I just dodn't remember it.
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SIX, congrats on the cleanup job! Maybe you'd like to come over here and help out? 
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, congrats on the cleanup job! Maybe you'd like to come over here and help out?
Maybe if I didn't have a billion other things to do. :)
Until I can get my friend and his old man here to scope it out and see what options I have, I really can't do anything about the porch yet. Every move I making going forward is centered entirely around that outcome. Other house related things I can and will be doing with my time off will be to secure a line of credit and check out a few houses down by my brother and see if I can get a feel about what I could legitimately haggle the prices down to.
In the mean time, this crap has to go either way. I'm not taking a full semi crammed with stuff when I move. Just the bare necessities and all of my tools and electronics. Everything else has to go. It should never have all been accumulated, but I have to remind myself that up until recently I was pretty convinced this is the house I'd be dying in one day.
Somebody took the computer desk yesterday. I was surprised. The couch was still there though unfortunately, so I can't sneak out another large piece for trash day. Also unfortunate is the large amount of rain in the forecast this week until next trash day. I REALLY wanted to get the L-shaped couch out of here today, but we've got thunderstorms incoming. If somebody didn't find it straight away and arrange to pick it up, it would certainly be ruined. I'd like to give people an opportunity to snag that one. It is really nice.
I've got about 4 hours to fill a large trash can now. Shit... I keep forgetting how hard it is to throw stuff out, even when it's stuff that you haven't even looked at or thought about for years.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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SIG, there are charities like Big Brothers and Sisters and the Salvation Army. I have to do a little more looking into them.
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Out in a bit. Later peeps.
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Quote:There was a time when we moved every six months, so we weren't able to accumulate stuff. For our big move, from Buffalo to LA, I had to stay behind to sell our house (in a down market) and decided to sell ALL of our stuff, including our dirt bikes (unlikely to do dirt riding in LA!) and basically lived with a sleeping bag on the floor, a minimal set of clothes in the closet, one pot, one spoon, one cup, one plate and one fork. The only thing I moved was the immediately useful stuff: Kitchenware, pillows, linens etc. I even sold our bedroom set. It was a wonderfully liberating time. Since then we have accumulated and accumulated and accumulaed!!! However, I'm all about getting rid of things responsibly; it's either going to charity of getting sold or being recycled. Very little is being thrown out.
SIX, congrats on the cleanup job! Maybe you'd like to come over here and help out?
Maybe if I didn't have a billion other things to do. :)
Until I can get my friend and his old man here to scope it out and see what options I have, I really can't do anything about the porch yet. Every move I making going forward is centered entirely around that outcome. Other house related things I can and will be doing with my time off will be to secure a line of credit and check out a few houses down by my brother and see if I can get a feel about what I could legitimately haggle the prices down to.
In the mean time, this crap has to go either way. I'm not taking a full semi crammed with stuff when I move. Just the bare necessities and all of my tools and electronics. Everything else has to go. It should never have all been accumulated, but I have to remind myself that up until recently I was pretty convinced this is the house I'd be dying in one day.
Somebody took the computer desk yesterday. I was surprised. The couch was still there though unfortunately, so I can't sneak out another large piece for trash day. Also unfortunate is the large amount of rain in the forecast this week until next trash day. I REALLY wanted to get the L-shaped couch out of here today, but we've got thunderstorms incoming. If somebody didn't find it straight away and arrange to pick it up, it would certainly be ruined. I'd like to give people an opportunity to snag that one. It is really nice.
I've got about 4 hours to fill a large trash can now. Shit... I keep forgetting how hard it is to throw stuff out, even when it's stuff that you haven't even looked at or thought about for years.
What I find SUPER-tedious is the "little" stuff ... papers, small items, tchotchkes ... particularly difficult with dear daughter's stuff since she has a hoarder's compulsion to keep EVERYthing.
I try to give her as much autonomy as possible, but sometimes I just have to put my foot down.
Anyway, all that "little" stuff ... it's a helluvalot of work for not much visible result. You have my sympathy!!!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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This late in the year, (mid-May) we just got an astonishing inch of rain. You have to realize that our rainy season basically ends by mid-March. Only 0.1" of rain was predicted.
This just goes to show what whacky weather we've been having. All of that cold air swooping down from Alaska and causing rain here ... must mean that Alaska is really warming up. Once Alaska (and the Arctic in general) have warmed up - which may be two to seven years from now I guess - I think we'll go back to being nonstop hot and dry
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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