In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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Another small bag of donatables ready to go as soon as I get a move on.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
It is nice. I am starting to realize how much I kept just because it was my mom's. So, I think a good bit will be donated. Don't think anymore pots and pans will be donated but dishes I think will be. We shall see. I know I have a small coffee pot that I will be donating as I don't drink entire pot of coffee anymore. Also know that I have a salt grinder and a pepper grinder somewhere but I haven't found them yet.

Going to get one more bin done tonight as it just has books in it.

Yeah, I got some recycling to get out in the next couple of days. I will.

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Yeah. That is the hard stuff to get rid of. :(

Fortunately, I still have both of my parents so that hasn't been an issue for me with them yet. When my grandparents died, I refused to be a vulture and pick through their things like all of my cousins were. When my grandma passed a few years back I did make a request for two items, one of which I knew my grandma still had of my grandpa's after he passed. They were hard to find, but I did manage to get them. They've already been packed up and are ready to follow me wherever I end up. :)

If you didn't get rid of that coffee pot yet, you might want to give that one some more thought. I had done that a while back when I quit drinking coffee and a few years later when I was drinking it again I got a small 5 cup coffee maker from my mom she didn't need anymore. NOT ENOUGH COFFEE!!!! :)

They're cheap enough though, so if it isn't a real fancy expensive one, no reason to hold onto it if you're not going to use it.




My brother only took about 10 books. I was hoping he'd be taking a lot more. My how-to books were largely collected from Goodwill. They might be going right back. These days it's not as if I haven't been able to figure out whatever I need to get done by going on youtube...

Although.... I still haven't been able to google how to fix my porch situation. Maybe I should spend some time through some of them and see if they have any "old-world" remedies for that. :)


About half of the books I still have are old sci-fi paperbacks my old man gave me years ago. A lot of them by authors I love but I never got around to reading them. I may see if he wants them back, at least temporarily. It would be a shame to get rid of them before I ever read them.






Got the king sized bed and dresser out yesterday Had a feeling the dresser might go even though it wasn't great, so instead of staging that in the garage we brought it out to the street even though it rained last night. Somebody took it. :)

Already got one neighbor on board for allowing me to put a piece of furniture on their curb tonight. Hoping I see some more of my neighbors out while doing things outside today. I'd rather not go knocking on houses to ask a favor.

Except for some incidental small end-table type furniture and a crappy lightweight coffee table, all of the furniture I'm not going to use is out of the house besides the two big bedroom sets that I have to figure out what I'm going to do with. Either of them would be snatched up from the street in a heartbeat if I do that. That ultimately might be what I do if nobody I know wants them. I only need one. I just have to decide if I want the more "masculine" looking one that probably doesn't have much resale value, or if I want to keep the antique set with definite value but isn't as appropriate for a bachelor. They're both very high quality sets and in great shape.


Hopefully today my friend comes over and gives me an idea of what to start doing with the porch.

After that, it's just another carload to goodwill, spending the next few weeks salting out the stuff staged in my garage to the trash and then figuring out all of the garage stuff I'm going to get rid of.

I still think of the unboxed stuff that's not furniture in my house I could get rid of another 50% of

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Got a lot of yardwork done that I wasn't expecting to be able to do until tomorrow because the weather decided to actually cooperate for once. All the helicopters are in a huge pile, but I can't throw them out until the garbage men come tomorrow. :)

Almost have my garage back, but that's because I might have gone a little overboard with what I put on the street for now. They'll only take one piece, but I've got three out there. They're all nice though, so I might luck out and wake up to see them all gone. If that's the case, I'm putting out the king sized bed and then I'll be able to park my car in the garage again for the first time in two weeks.

Living room is finally done! Took me forever to finally buckle down and untangle the mess of cords and wires around the network in the corner of the room. Had to really clean all the cables since the mice were back there before.

Tomorrow I get to really clear out a lot of stuff after the garbage men come. Then I can clear out and deep clean the closet floor that had who knows how many mice camping out. They must all be gone now because I've had those traps out for over a week and not a nibble. It's possible that Mama Racoon scared them all away. Maybe I should invest in a cat once I get more situated with my situation.

Going to have to decide what of the small incidental furniture I want to keep and pitch the rest next week. I go back to work so I'll be loading up on as many days as they'll let me until the job is gone, but I'll try to keep up the progress wherever I can in the mean time.

Super stoked about doing work on the house again now that everything is getting cleared out. I have to keep my strong urge to go out and start buying materials in check because I don't want to be dumping much if any money into the house if I'm just going to split.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by Brenda:
It is nice. I am starting to realize how much I kept just because it was my mom's. So, I think a good bit will be donated. Don't think anymore pots and pans will be donated but dishes I think will be. We shall see. I know I have a small coffee pot that I will be donating as I don't drink entire pot of coffee anymore. Also know that I have a salt grinder and a pepper grinder somewhere but I haven't found them yet.

Going to get one more bin done tonight as it just has books in it.

Yeah, I got some recycling to get out in the next couple of days. I will.

---

Yeah. That is the hard stuff to get rid of. :(

Fortunately, I still have both of my parents so that hasn't been an issue for me with them yet. When my grandparents died, I refused to be a vulture and pick through their things like all of my cousins were. When my grandma passed a few years back I did make a request for two items, one of which I knew my grandma still had of my grandpa's after he passed. They were hard to find, but I did manage to get them. They've already been packed up and are ready to follow me wherever I end up. :)

If you didn't get rid of that coffee pot yet, you might want to give that one some more thought. I had done that a while back when I quit drinking coffee and a few years later when I was drinking it again I got a small 5 cup coffee maker from my mom she didn't need anymore. NOT ENOUGH COFFEE!!!! :)

They're cheap enough though, so if it isn't a real fancy expensive one, no reason to hold onto it if you're not going to use it.




My brother only took about 10 books. I was hoping he'd be taking a lot more. My how-to books were largely collected from Goodwill. They might be going right back. These days it's not as if I haven't been able to figure out whatever I need to get done by going on youtube...

Although.... I still haven't been able to google how to fix my porch situation. Maybe I should spend some time through some of them and see if they have any "old-world" remedies for that. :)


About half of the books I still have are old sci-fi paperbacks my old man gave me years ago. A lot of them by authors I love but I never got around to reading them. I may see if he wants them back, at least temporarily. It would be a shame to get rid of them before I ever read them.






Got the king sized bed and dresser out yesterday Had a feeling the dresser might go even though it wasn't great, so instead of staging that in the garage we brought it out to the street even though it rained last night. Somebody took it. :)

Already got one neighbor on board for allowing me to put a piece of furniture on their curb tonight. Hoping I see some more of my neighbors out while doing things outside today. I'd rather not go knocking on houses to ask a favor.

Except for some incidental small end-table type furniture and a crappy lightweight coffee table, all of the furniture I'm not going to use is out of the house besides the two big bedroom sets that I have to figure out what I'm going to do with. Either of them would be snatched up from the street in a heartbeat if I do that. That ultimately might be what I do if nobody I know wants them. I only need one. I just have to decide if I want the more "masculine" looking one that probably doesn't have much resale value, or if I want to keep the antique set with definite value but isn't as appropriate for a bachelor. They're both very high quality sets and in great shape.


Hopefully today my friend comes over and gives me an idea of what to start doing with the porch.

After that, it's just another carload to goodwill, spending the next few weeks salting out the stuff staged in my garage to the trash and then figuring out all of the garage stuff I'm going to get rid of.

I still think of the unboxed stuff that's not furniture

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