What Have You Tossed?
Last week we had a humdinger of a storm and our basement flooded. Maybe 6 inches of water? Kind of a pain.
The good news is nothing important or valuable was lost. The bad news is that it still meant a lot of boxes and random junk got wet.
But the good news is that there was no better reason but to finally clean that basement. So far we’ve taken four carloads to the dump. And there’s much more to throw out. Old wrapping paper! Random nuts that don’t fit any bolts! Scraps of plywood cut in odd shapes! Kids games missing all of the dice! Goodbye! Farewell!
So what about you, Deadsplintertossers? What are some things you’ve recently consigned to the dump or the briney depths?
Have you taken old paperbacks to Goodwill? Dropped off motor oil at the hazardous waste cleanup center? Shredded old bills and dumped them in the compost?
And how do you feel about it? Any pangs of regret? Or are you like me and feel a great sense of lightness?
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I finally got my new bed. I ended up shoving the old bed out to the garage for storage before next week’s garbage pickup.
I don’t regret it, my back isn’t as tight as it has been because I got a really firm mattress.
Mattresses are massive, too. I think they’re right up there with old tires in terms of junk that gets dumped in ravines because people don’t know what else to do.
I’m ruthless about getting rid of things. I don’t save things so I never really need to do a big purge. The only exception is books and I can’t bring myself to throw them away. Even ones I didn’t really like.
Ever since we put up a little library it’s gotten a lot easier to send them back into the bigger world (although there have been some books that have come into the house instead of going out).
We have a Little Library across the street. But it’s child themed. Which is really nice but doesn’t help me get rid of anything. But it is a good excuse to buy kids books.
I think my local senator here in NJ may well be destined for the dump.
Oh yeah, lol. He would have been a good subject for last night’s NOT. Fall from grace, recovery, fall again! I don’t think there’s any coming back this time.
I sold off my massive comic book collection years ago. I was at the point where I had to rent a moving truck to move it and storage to store it. Around the time my daughter was born, people started scanning old comics and posting them in various places for download. This is of course illegal, but not only had I paid for the paper comics, I’d paid a lot over the years to move and store them. So my conscience was not … overly troubled, let’s say.
Once I was able to move to digital versions, I had no reason to hang on to the paper. I spent a lot of time pricing them and renting tables at comic shows, but I got rid of almost all of them (some precious ones I retained). I still buy comics, but I download the digital versions and every year or so take the paper ones back to my comic shop for store credit. I’ve got a box ready to go now, and tonight’s NOT reminded me of that fact.
Once you subtracted all of the ads and other errata, the actual number of panels in a comic weren’t that much. So there’s a good reason to digitize. Except occasionally those old Hostess ads where The Hulk mellowed out after eating some Fruit Pies were kind of funny.
Generally speaking, 22 pages. Mostly the ads aren’t included in old scans, so the file size isn’t that large. Actually, some of the old scanning crews did scan the ads, which are interesting to see all these years later. Now you can get digital comics directly from the publishers.
Who knows a good way to stream NFL without paying for it?
Sports bars are a legal way. If you want to get to the edge the Kodi app will get you started, but there are more plug ins you have to track down which are more likely to be crossing the line.
https://thetvapp.to/
ive cleaned up a bunch of max verstappen 1/18 model cars and a book i had lying around about the history of guns in pictures
funnily enough…all the verstappen cars now live in the states….and the book of guns went to switzerland
oppo is a great place to offload junk…uhh..i mean collectables