Charmion, the parent in me felt a little shudder at your description of the bag of cash. Advising discretion and offering an opaque zipper pouch at the next chore might not go amiss.

Patty, it sounds like you'll be hunting for a while. Do you have Freecycle in your area? If you were on Facebook you could look at their Marketplace (though I never do, partly because there is very little I need to buy, and I'm leery of an unregulated marketplace like that.) There is furniture sold on eBay (I'd go for any "local pickup" within a broad mileage of your area - who knows what shipping would cost). Amazon even sells furniture. (I just pulled up my Freecycle page and there are two antique bed frames being offered on the north side of town.)

Still working on promotional items for my friend so that's two of us hunched over the computer on this Tuesday. I think we'll have enough to make a run to the print shop this afternoon or tomorrow. I just heard the mail carrier plop closed the front of the steel mailbox (it has a strong magnet) and realized I haven't seen Informed Delivery in my email for ages. I was getting it twice, so of course if I canceled it one place both went away. I've hopefully restored it to one email address only. (I had two accounts when I had the PO Box and the House with each getting their own reports, the PO seems to have transferred the PO Box account to the forwarded address, but they waited a year after the forwarding order expired to do it. Odd.)

Watching the evacuation of low-lying parts of Florida today as Milton approaches has me doing my own mental calculations about where are the documents and emergency items I would load, along with dog food and gear, to get out of our little stream-side low spot, if the need arises here. Everyone needs a plan, because there is always something bad that can happen to your house or neighborhood wherever you are, whether fire or flood or tornado or hurricane, or as in the Pacific Northwest, volcanoes and earthquakes.