My parents were in town this weekend. Always a good excuse for deep cleaning.
9 thoughts on “October 22, 2023: In Da House”
We always joke that we need to invite someone over so we have an excuse to clean.
It's funny how the place looks when you look at it through someone else's eyes. Am thinking of joining a garden club now that I'm retired and now my yard and gardens look like hell.
I have (so far) taken 14 contractor bags full of crap to the dump. Expecting to take at least another 4 tomorrow.
We also took a 50-year old sectional, and (probably older) dressers and bookcases to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Grand Rapids. And some other, large stuff to the dump (mattress and box spring and frame, an old vanity, old humidifier,
My brother then took a trailer full of stuff to the cities....
My grandpa had so much nice furniture that we had absolutely no way to bring back or space to put anyway.
We've been good suppliers to our local ReStore. Nice to have a place that'll take perfectly good excess building material and construction leftovers, etc
I had bought a bunch of gubmint furniture from Control Data when I worked there - metal desks, shelves, file cabinets, tables, etc.
When I hauled to the recycling center (ye Olde Dump) I tho't I'd get reamed, but the dude said "Hey, it's metal - it's all free".
Small(ish) world. My father was at Control Data before taking a job with Hutch Tech in 1990, and my uncle - mom’s brother - was a manufacturing director with Magnetic Peripherals before moving to OKC (Seagate operations).
Upon further review, I did take 4 more today. 4 more trips to the dump, that is.
11 contractor bags of junk, two 5-gallon pails of assorted metal junk, a 60-or-more year old Maul chainsaw (it probably weighed 30+ lbs), old gas-powered weed whacker, another very old piece of equipment -- some sort of table saw thingy with a belt drive -- and three contractor bags of recycling.
I then smoked a pork loin roast, served with sweet potatoes, green beans and a salad.
Tomorrow we take a load of clothes to Goodwill and a couple boxes of books to the library.
We always joke that we need to invite someone over so we have an excuse to clean.
It's funny how the place looks when you look at it through someone else's eyes. Am thinking of joining a garden club now that I'm retired and now my yard and gardens look like hell.
I have (so far) taken 14 contractor bags full of crap to the dump. Expecting to take at least another 4 tomorrow.
We also took a 50-year old sectional, and (probably older) dressers and bookcases to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Grand Rapids. And some other, large stuff to the dump (mattress and box spring and frame, an old vanity, old humidifier,
My brother then took a trailer full of stuff to the cities....
My grandpa had so much nice furniture that we had absolutely no way to bring back or space to put anyway.
We've been good suppliers to our local ReStore. Nice to have a place that'll take perfectly good excess building material and construction leftovers, etc
I had bought a bunch of gubmint furniture from Control Data when I worked there - metal desks, shelves, file cabinets, tables, etc.
When I hauled to the recycling center (ye Olde Dump) I tho't I'd get reamed, but the dude said "Hey, it's metal - it's all free".
Small(ish) world. My father was at Control Data before taking a job with Hutch Tech in 1990, and my uncle - mom’s brother - was a manufacturing director with Magnetic Peripherals before moving to OKC (Seagate operations).
Upon further review, I did take 4 more today. 4 more trips to the dump, that is.
11 contractor bags of junk, two 5-gallon pails of assorted metal junk, a 60-or-more year old Maul chainsaw (it probably weighed 30+ lbs), old gas-powered weed whacker, another very old piece of equipment -- some sort of table saw thingy with a belt drive -- and three contractor bags of recycling.
I then smoked a pork loin roast, served with sweet potatoes, green beans and a salad.
Tomorrow we take a load of clothes to Goodwill and a couple boxes of books to the library.