Wheeeee!

[poliphilo]

A few entries back I wrote about wanting to "examine my life."

Thanks, Dag, you really landed me in it.

There's no more practical way of examining your life than by putting your house on the market.

All the stuff you've accumulated. Silly stuff. Sentimental. Bah: heave it  in the wheelie bin!

The estate agents want to take picturesof the interior and they're not going to do it with that chair in the frame. 

Oldham Tip-  here we come!

Ailz says that once you put your house on the market it ceases to be your home. 

Too true!

Life is suddenly moving very, very fast. 

I  like it.

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[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

P.S. I found Freecycle on the Web, and it saved me!

Freecycle is, I think, international. You can find a local chapter, and people who live nearby can see what you have to give away, and they will come and take it off your hands.

I met so many nice people, and they came promptly and helped me shove rickety cupboards and rocking chairs and tables into their trucks and vans, and I didn't have to take a single thing to the dump.

We emptied out, Kate and I, an entire tool shed full of (mildewed) old furniture.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Hmm....

I must look into this. I haven't heard of it operating in this area, but who knows?

I've got Ailz looking into it now....

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard about it, either, and only found out through an LJ friend, so I pay that forward to you!

Hope you have a chapter.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

OK. We do have a local chapter. Excellent.

And Ailz is in the process of signing us up.

Thanks for the tip. I like the idea of our cast-offs going to a good home.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Oh, good.

I even got rid of an old rusty bicycle by suggesting someone might want to use it for a garden trellis, and it worked! She spray painted it black (I supplied the leftover spray paint), planted petunias in the basket, and set it out in her garden!

I gave away bamboo poles for tomato stakes; white roll-up picket fencing for veg gardens, trellises; yellow chairs; two tables; a piano, to a little girl who was thrilled to pieces--I want an electronic big one with pedals next time; rocking chair; a 1940s bedroom suite with the veneer coming off; a pie-safe; bookshelves; dishes--and this all to many different families, all of whom were so happy to get them! Kate gave away cross-stitch fabric, and three people asked for it.

It feels good to share what is still usable, rather than dumping it for the landfill.