I'm glad to see you got that listed, Kat. And early bids usually amount to more bids in the lifetime of the auction. I have one closing today and several more things to list.
Last night I scrubbed and detailed the bread machine and convection oven I picked up at garage sales. The DaLite screen doesn't need any work. I've had a slide projector for years and always projected on walls or sheets because these screens are so expensive. This one was $5.
It feels good to go through this process, to know you've adopted a device that is still in good order but just wasn't treated like a useful device in its old home. I keep my cookers and this-and-that makers clean and shiny, then they look like a nice part of the kitchen. These both needed to have cooked on grease spots scrubbed off, and lots of grimy crevice work with cotton swabs and toothpicks. But they cleaned up nice! They're here in my pool of appliances for days when I need more than the one I already have or to go with the kids.
The sheets I picked up were laundered and then hung on the line for several hours. I then put the dry sheets into the dryer with the rest of the batch of laundry (still waiting to be dried) and ran them till everything was dry. I like to use the line this time of year, but for this project, the most important thing was to get the slightly perfumed smell out of those sheets, replaced with the typical laundry smell of things washed here. I'm much more likely to have easy acceptance of these sheets by the kid in question if they have the right smell. (Same with clothes we bring home from the thrift store--they get washed so they smell right before they get worn).