The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129212   Message #2906995
Posted By: wysiwyg
14-May-10 - 03:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: May 2010 Declutter & Accountability
Subject: RE: BS: May 2010 Declutter & Accountability
Oh yes, SRS, I started with that-- but there are a few tricks up my sleeve beyond that.

In unpacking the week's pickups, I count:

Fishing box of "junk please remove": 4 good bait-fishing rods, 4 shorties light enough for kids, a brand-new reel still in plastic, a coupla odd parts, a pair of 2-pc willow-branch rods (or maybe it's dried bamboo) that are VERY nice, a foldable flagpole for my scooter, and $1.85 in coins mixed in with mud, mouse-eaten insulation, and reel installation instrux in the chewed-up box the reel came in.

Baskets to Keep ("We're moving pls take it AWAY!"): Four hangworthy wicker baskets, a big desk-trashcan-size with handles, three 'hang-on-milady's-arm" type to gather or display flowers or decoriana, a matched pair of whitewashed, deep rectangles (large raw-materials inbox, tiny-for-digitized-output outbox), a matched pair of capacious, deep rectangles with handles (mag size and one sz larger).

One "Can you use this" old laptop I may pass on (VERY old) in a GREAT new carrycase I will KEEP for the nicer laptop olddude sent me...

A referral to someone who may be a GREAT petsitter for vacay... who the donors paid to load all this up! Yes! He took things out of my hands to load them for me!

A round, diassembleable table with legs, hole, and lightweight, portable umbrella stand-- all light enough to go camping (or visiting), and seat 6 who bring their own chairs.... needs a coat of paint.

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Misc to go straight to yard sale, such as a small humidifier...

Yet to be determined-- keep or sell or donate-- several more misc baskets I cannot immediately allocate, plus a few older baskets the new lot will replace that can go to the yard sale.

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Local fishing folks will help evaluate all the fishing gear before I disperse it-- Hardi's a flycaster, not a bait dangler.

And Hardi LIKES the wishing well, now looking pretty good on a sunny day (as-is & moldy) when yer driving our road at 55+ m.p.h.-- to which I will staple on a few lightweight 49-cent surveyors' stakes (think mini-picket-fence pickets), and paint. The well, not Hardi. :~)

~Susan