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Post by peaceandfreedom on Apr 5, 2017 18:22:51 GMT -5
First, some unfinished business. (See my entries in this thread on March 22 and 24 regarding my favorite old coat, a London Fog, whose zipper had given out. I threw it into the garbage can, but some SOoS sisters talked me into keeping it!) So took it to the alteration lady and just picked it up today. It is as good as new, she put the zipper in beautifully, and when I put it on I just felt like it was putting its dear old arms around me! So once again, thank you to those who talked me into keeping it! Now, to what is loaded into the car, ready to donate tomorrow: My mother's old blender. It has the old original instructions, on which she wrote 1987! I know that it works just fine. She died in 2003 and I've had it since, and never used it even once. So, off it goes. Along with 2 blender recipe books that she had with it. A bag of misc. household items.
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Post by peaceandfreedom on Apr 5, 2017 21:57:56 GMT -5
Also got rid of an ancient 100 ft. Electrical cord that had SEVEN places with black electrical tape wound around the cord! It must have belonged to my former husband (we divorced 17 years ago!) It was in a storage area of the garage. It is amazing what items can turn up, seemingly just out of nowhere! It is in the garbage can.
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Post by MamaAngie on Apr 6, 2017 14:27:58 GMT -5
Old measuring cups and spoons -- parts of 3 sets. Most numbers rubbed off. Got 1 new set of each! Yea!! Out with the old!!!
1 comforter and 1 sheet in pile for donation (need to find another bag or box to put these in)
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Post by H2H on Apr 6, 2017 15:55:50 GMT -5
An adorable snowman handled ice cream scoop- the snowman is holding an tiny ice-cream cone....sigh
a toughie- torn cotton lace curtain..finally decided to go half way and cut off the two lace panels for the misc. fabrics sewing box..I know! I know! but I threw the rest away a long survey heat formed plastic cracker tray - I don't eat crackers, I serve no one food socially
2 bags of new in bag wood curtain rings- value $16.00 oh well, can't use these a lamp globe for a kerosene lantern sorted cloth dinner napkins, incl one new pricey set I'll never use doggy extendo-leash other misc kitchen items
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Post by entropy on Apr 7, 2017 15:08:00 GMT -5
Last weekend, I finally dropped off two big boxes of items suitable for donation! They've been sitting in the back entryway for 3 months!
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Post by H2H on Apr 7, 2017 15:24:07 GMT -5
mamaAngie Old measuring cups and spoons -- parts of 3 sets. Most numbers rubbed off.
isn't ti interesting the most important part is made useless quickly? Same for modern sewing machines with plastic, not metal engine parts.
and I was reading a whole book of cool Japanese functional home product designs, and one was the NUMBERS of the AMOUNTS on the tablespoon measure set and the rest are deep groves IN the plastic..so when you pour in the vanilla, etc you see the value like 1/3-- both the 1 and the 3 fill up 'exactly' very precise those designers..
sorta cool..tricky if you can't see the white on white dent in the spoon tho? huh?
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Post by creativechaos on Apr 8, 2017 0:10:30 GMT -5
woo hoo! yay for a happy ending and re-vamp of your london fog raincoat, peaceandfreedom! and for getting rid of all that other stuff too! standing ovation to you all for items released and tossed - MamaAngie, H2H, and entropy! well done! today i released a box worth of scrap pieces of concrete siding that i'd been hoarding in the large storage unit. thought i'd use the stuff, but it's hard to figure out how to hang it up. it would be perfect for things to mortar onto a concrete base of a building or some such... but out out out. offered it to the art teacher who i volunteer with, for kids to use for individual mosaics - perfect size for that. yay, it's gone and it will be repurposed and used at least once more before the landfill!
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Post by H2H on Apr 8, 2017 11:37:09 GMT -5
creativechaos-scrap pieces of concrete siding << the non burn cement siding planks with a faux wood pattern?
I saved a bunch of these too, and laid them down side by side as the subfloor for my granite mosaic..this is the same thing as the thinner sheet of "hardibacker" tile backing you buy in 4'x8' sheets
so good idea! and that stuff needs a circular saw to cut!!!
My plan for my backsplash..instead of tiling directly to the wall behind the counter, so hard to bend over, get your head and arm under the upper cabinets, use your wrist to lay the grout vertically!!! etc..
a nightmare, really, of bending and stooping. I am using the long scrap planks of 5"high boards on a tabletop, to tile the design onto while I am SEATED, and then just bolt to the wall so it is removable.
you can caulk around the edges to seal. and you can match up the ends of 2 boards before you mount it, or leave the 3-4 small tiles needed to span the joined boards once in place.
far less work, and easy to remodel for the next person, or take the art with you if it's a rental
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Post by creativechaos on Apr 8, 2017 20:58:27 GMT -5
yep - the same stuff, H2H - if i had "owned" a home i may have kept it but i am glad someone else will use it to whatever advantage they see. i kept a half dozen pieces and some small scraps that might make good address numbers or - now that you mention it - i may be able to patch into a removable backsplash - -but probably i'll get rid of them too. just glad i didn't have to put them in dumpster. yes, the idea of mosaic is to always do in sections if at all possible, and not vertical in hard to reach places. and to give the kids something they can make and take home - perhaps to mount on their houses or wherever.
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Post by H2H on Apr 9, 2017 18:23:57 GMT -5
CC- when I tend to explain the use of the scrap cement board that way ( in manageable pieces) the "professional" people always stare at me like I am a nutcase. it seems doing things the same old, same old is a time honored tradition..."BAH! on non creative thinkers" I say! Now Dan Phillips would be clapping at creative use of a throwaway product!!!! hum maybe I should move to TX and cuddle up to him just for the approval of my ideas? TODAY I: dumped some (20+) tiles..a big deal. -dug up threw away two roses that are volunteer and hideous thorny..don't bloom much either (hard to toss a living thing..) "The Song of the Wild Cucumber" ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/WEEDS/wild_cucumber.htmlOne wild cuke popped up in my front garden..I have a rusty, curved iron 'boudoir' chair frame. It was destined for the recycle yard..But I could just NOT do that yet...so ..I shoved it into the dirt over the vines, and wrapped them lightly around to get them 'clinging..it will be actually cute. there is something about the 24 curly bright green loops those little clingy bits make..reminds me of tiny fingers saying "please let me hang on and survive" you can go out from 10am to 4pm and see them reach grasp, and begin looping curls.. "the wisdom of plants" just amazes me!! but the tiny tendrils are like iron to hold up the thick heavy vines and fruit bulb that adorn them! ( Great book- abut medicines and how plants communicate- T he Lost Language of Plants") OK imagine this image the size of a small orange!! dozens hanging off your shrubs, a pest plant.
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Post by closetofchaos on Apr 11, 2017 3:36:28 GMT -5
I'm not sure this counts because it was easy and felt good to get rid of but; heaps and heaps of rubbish from the backyard, such as yardwaste, and things which were broken, had been spoiled in the rain, things I couldn't believe I hadn't thrown out before during a previous cleaning spree. The landlord came down on the building manager about tenants with plastic pools in their backyards, also weeds. I had both. I took care of those problems but then I noticed all that extra rubbish after I cleaned up everything else. It sure feels good!
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Post by closetofchaos on Apr 11, 2017 3:37:09 GMT -5
P. S. Working non-stop, it took nearly 3 hours and I stay on task!
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Post by def6 on Apr 11, 2017 10:30:58 GMT -5
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Post by H2H on Apr 11, 2017 12:14:59 GMT -5
def6 yep tourist stuff is often bizarre.. the air ferns can be very pretty for apt dwellers who travel and no time to are for it...are they invasive?
but painting the shell of a creature with no way to resist ?
I am not aiming this at you or FL, but cranky over what is done , just a bleeding heart softie
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Post by def6 on Apr 11, 2017 12:25:24 GMT -5
The air ferns can be prolific but I don't think they are considered invasive because they don' t harm anything (heck they don't even set roots down) And isn't that "Just wrong" on the other two things. Some people that get the hermit crabs (even folks just picking them out of the water) really are not set up to keep them at home. Better to just admire...and then let them go home.
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