"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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"Dee Randall" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:I've been getting rid of [censored] little by little, amazing the stuff
that piles up. I just cleaned out one closet, I found an
Intellivision game, complete with games, that has been out of
manufacture since ... when? early 80s? Astonishing amount
of stuff I forgot I ever had in there. Buh bye.
Quoted message said:I've been months cleaning out [censored]! I finally moved it all to one
big room, taking all of it on trips to the Salvation Army. Here are
the last items they wouldn't accept: Projector screen, cannon copier
machine; we begged them to take a double cassette recorder; I have an
80's DX Yamaha, that i'm wondering if they will take, and all the
paraphanelia that goes with it, drum machine, speaker etc., and of
course a cheap 80's Casio music piano I paid $800 for and you can get
now for a little over a $100; I know they will not take this kind of
[censored] because they say it has to be tested!
Can you *imagine* the garbage people must donate? Especially if they
want a tax write off. Now you have all this stuff and no one wants
it.
Quoted message said:3 bikes barely used, golf clubs, weights, and the list goes on. I've
taken truckloads of stuff already, but this is the end of it, that I'm
not sure they will take.
There are people who will come take it, they sell it at flea
markets/whatever. Look for people who will 'clean out your
basement' ... sometimes they mean they'll take your stuff off
your hands, and junk the stuff even they don't want.
I donated my bike to a VFW hall (they asked for unwanted
bikes), they spiff them up and gave them to veterans who were
trying to get back on their feet and needed a bike to get to work.
(laugh) That was the day I stopped for a corned beef sandwich on
the way home and the woman kept yelling NO SIDES!! NO SIDES!!
Oh, and no doo rags at the VFW hall. Was a funny adventure all the
way around, starting with me trying to get my bike in the car.
Quoted message said:I need the room to start storing my other stuff I'm constantly
hauling in. Today a 3-set Japanese knife set (Santoku) and a 50" x
24" stainless steel table. It's not that I don't use the stuff I
buy, it's just the it gets used up or isn't worth using for long, a
bad choice, or one wants to buy better.
I understand, completely. When I think of stuff I've bought that
turned out not to work for me, I'd have a lot more money in the bank.
Quoted message said:It would be nice if you could leave (like I've heard other countries
do) your stuff at the curb and let people take it. DH did this sort
of thing when he was cleaning out his dad's house, he put 3 couches
out for someone to take (with a sign to take) and they took the
pillow cushions, and he ended up still hauling away the couches.
Luckily my town picks up a lot of stuff, but you have to put it out on
the correct friday or you're out of luck. It's kind of funny trying
to make sure you have the right day from reading the circular.
I have put out gas grills that way, I put it out after the garbage
pickup on friday, usually someone will make off with it before next
pickup. But, like your couch cushions, once someone just took the
tank. Not really what I had in mind, but what are you going to do.
nancy
I'm a dumpster expert. Only problem is every year I need another one.
I'm too far from the road to drag old sofas, bbqs, etc.
Please place that dumster right up against the house and I'll call ya in
a week.
Last years most stupid purchase: electric vegetable steamer.
I've got a closet and some drawers of clothes that haven't fit since
2000. They're gone this year.
Got a 200-channel stereo 5.1 surround that cost $3000+ back in the early
90s it.s obsolete, the speakers are huge and I can get the same thing for
$200 and it's all practically invisible. I can't wait for the old system
to hit the dumpster. I don't wanna for sale it (phone calls, visits). I
wouldn't buy it!
I looked under the kitchen sink and there's a box of brillo that I think
has dust mites living in it. A solid caked can of ajax.
The out of sight problem gets me every time.
"Hmmm... how long has this stale spaghetti been hiding in the pantry?"
6-packs of baked beens and chili from 1998. Good grief!
Some of my OTC medicines might have helped in 1990.
I just need help. I can't pick up some of this [censored] anymore. Maybe hire
some kids from down the road. "That, DUMPSTER!", that, DUMPSTER!," that,
DUMPSTER! You want that? Take it. That would be dumpstering in style!
Andy
The Lazy BUM!
