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Thread #173767   Message #4215415
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
16-Jan-25 - 12:24 PM
Thread Name: DECLUTTER: *Sorting *Health *Progress - 2025
Subject: RE: DECLUTTER: *Sorting *Health *Progress - 2025
It does feel like everyone is giving up. Let's see, why could that be? (We all need to send a message to Merrick Garland to for heaven's sake drop the charges on the other two in the Maralago documents case—because Trump will anyway—and release the report. We want to see it, not have it buried.)

That rotten plank stunt is so stinky, and they had to know what they were doing when it was in there. Childish trick. The lumber these days comes from rapidly grown young trees (better than cutting old growth, I'm not arguing for that) and isn't as strong. When I pick out my own 2x4s sometimes they'll be in a batch where everything is warped. It isn't being handled and dried as well at the mill. A good argument for not doing demolition with a bulldozer, but disassembling buildings that need to be replaced and reusing as much of that material as possible. It isn't just about rescuing fancy trim, windows, and old fireplaces any more. The recycling bins are emptied two days a week here and I have to keep track of those days to get in right behind them, because bins fill quickly when people don't flatten their boxes and put in bulky non-recycling things.

Back when I had a travel trailer I remember a couple of embarrassing sideswipes or things dropping off. They're handy, but there are so many moving parts to keep track of!

Another eBay item sold and will go in the mail today. One item is left in the listings, so I have to get more up there. And I have to finish a large box to my son; I'll take that that and the box of high school yearbooks to the post office.

Turning inward this year. More audiobooks, more work that doesn't involve listening to the news. Putting in the garden as a really serious source of food, because in addition to the climate change I think the broad distribution of solid waste "fertilizer" embedded with PFAS has probably damaged our food supply in a serious way.