Anyone have a need for either peg board hooks or an assortment of set screws? Just asking for shipping costs.
I’m in the process of cleaning out the garage. I hate throwing things away, so I would rather give them away. Let me know if you’re interested or have any questions.
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Pensacola, FL has a group called freecycle. People post free stuff and they will come pick it up. Your in a large town, they probably have something similar.
Catfish, and if you can get freecyclers to actually come pick stuff up you're doing immensely better than i did. After despairing ever giving away some windows and doors I put one at the end of my very long driveway with a sign saying $10, more available.
Figured maybe somebody would steal what I couldn't give away. Nope, guy came up and gave me $30 for the 3 windows and a pile of doors. Had to give him a rope to keep it all on his truck.
However Joe, I'd be happy to pay freight for the set screws. Seems like I'm always scrambling for one for one piece of old machinery or another. Long tip to town. Didn't hear anything about that XP so I gather it worked for you. PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
While working for home depot installing doors I gave away all the old doors that weregood enough to use. Some with, some without jambs.
Plus, my wife had a pile of junk (or stuff) and we gave it all away, they pick it up. I have also collected a bunch of albums given away there.
you know how that suppose to go...
Mary's antiques... Bob's junk....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
we gave it all away, they pick it up.
Ideally.
My experience was 21 excited would-be recipients, 19 no-shows. Craigslist works better for me. Apparently different clientele, no no-shows yet. I've been recycling building material for the community since we moved up here, like all the windows from a local church (happily in a new home).
Wondered if I'd ever get rid of an unused garbage compactor, but sure enough somebody wanted it. Was vague about why, but I don't care if he's making green bricks.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
might of simplified packing and shipping of his "harvest"...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
That was my guess, but I know better than to ask too many questions. Pretty sure he wasn't the one who farmed on the property behind me a couple of years ago.
PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
I've had 2 no-shows. I gaave away about 20 doors, about half with jambs. Pensacola is not a real wealthy area.
I drug a pink CI bathtub to the end of my driveway on the end of a chain attached to my Dodge Power Wagon - too heavy to push through gravel even on my custom dolly for such things. Damned if it didn't disappear...AND the matching toilet!
You have a Power Wagon??? Look out, somebody will be wanting to marry you!
(That will be Mr. Splintie # 5?)
Wouldn't be surprised. I think the last one married me for my shop.
I've had somewhat better luck with Freecycle, probably about 60% follow through. Now that we are in the hinterlands of VA, need to try Craig's list.
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations - New Construction - Rentals
Catfish might've hit it, noting that he's not in a wealthy area. Unlike here.
Haven't lived all over, but never have seen so many trust fund kids as here. Truly amazing. Lacking personal experience, but it might color ones world view.
I'd guess your neighborhood is different.
PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Well, nobody is going to marry me for my shop...mine married me because I had UFT dental insurance...I always say that we had to get married.
married you for insurance?
hmmm
maybe there's something TO THIS (?):
http://biz.yahoo.com/wallstreet/071214/sb119760031991928727_id.html?.v=1
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
— Kahlil Gibran
The link wouldn't open...
Dang - sorry bout that... (was an online article reporting on how men/women are now choosing their SO on basis of MONEY and health insurance and such, more so than "love" at times in certain age brackets..)
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
— Kahlil Gibran
LOVE your tag line. "Our problems are of our own making ..."
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Thanks; glad ya like it...<g>!
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
— Kahlil Gibran
try this one...
all it takes is money...
Yet even among the workaday (or wannabe) wealthy, marrying for money has become a popular pursuit. In an infamous personal ad posted on Craigslist this summer, a twentysomething New Yorker who described herself as "spectacularly beautiful" wrote that she was looking for a man who made at least $500,000 a year. She'd tried dating men earning $250,000, but that wasn't "getting me to Central Park West," she said. The ad inspired all manner of parodies and follow-ups, including one by an investment banker, who replied that since his money would grow over time but her beauty would fade, the offer didn't make good business sense. She was, he said, a "depreciating asset."
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Women aren't the only ones with the gold-digging impulse. In the Prince & Associates study, 61% of men in their 40s said they would marry for money. Ms. Smock says that as men get older, they become more comfortable with women being the bread-winners."
BTW, when you planning on hitting the road?
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
— Kahlil Gibran
Some people just want a change.
be hey, cheap change!Peace out.
Damned if it didn't disappear...AND the matching toilet!
Hmmm... there's still a high-dollar green low-slung one-piece toilet here. Oval seat that pinches your cheeks, with obvious consequences. 5 gallons I think, and never flushed well enough to make Sir Thomas proud.
Might be a solution, for me at least. No Returns: the official policy.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
It's different here.The local version of freecycle is no more than a place for people to advertise used krap for exhorbitant prices. (Yeah, I know, where's the "free" in that ?)So the craigslist gathers all the no-shows and such, instead.
A man, convinced against his will... Is of his own opinion, still. ~Anne McCaffrey
Sounds like y'all need more sunshine.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Another success story today from craigslist. Request for a "tractor tire". Several emails later, it was for an exercise regimen. Among other things, flipping. I asked if it was the tire or exerciser flipped.
Turns out flipping the tire was part of the program. No chance in hell of anybody flipping this tire, but they took it anyway.
Fascinated with our house, and they just bought land near here.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
yeah ... that's about the size they "flip" ...
just had my first craigslist snag.
wife kinda needs snow tires for her PT Cruiser ...
needs them ... but I usually take the boy to school in the morn ...
and the streets are usually plowed by the time she picks him up ...
and she works in the office only 2 days a week ... and her boss don't drive in heavy snow anyways ... so it's more of a want than a need.
browsed craigslist after deciding somewhere around $150/ mounted wasn't a bad deal for new ...
found 2 that'd fit ... $25 for both!
drove way outta my way expecting them to be ####.
kid said they were in the backseat when he bought the car used ...
they were brand new ... don't think they were every mounted.
another $20 later and they were on the car.
guaranteed to not snow heavy now for the rest of this winter!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
guaranteed to not snow heavy now for the rest of this winter!
Does that extend to here? I bought a tobaggan from craigslist last spring. Still waiting... Might be the only one in the county, almost unused. 2 seater, I guess we could try it on the leaves where it's real steep. Sphere says the steering's iffy.
DW decided she needed a laptop to keep up when travelling (1 wk/mo). Shortly, a 3 mo old Compaq got listed for $325. She likes it. PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
I have a three phase 5 ton package aircond belonging to our church and put it on CL. Got a quick hit saying he would take it and was asking for a lot more info than I was ready to provide. Sent him my phone # and never heard back. Sounded like a phishing expedition.
I need two screws for an electrician's extension bit, one for a saber saw, and a couple for the bottom of the tool box. :-)
On second thought, let me stop at the hardware store. But thanks...
Don K.
EJG Homes Renovations - New Construction - Rentals
I would take the hooks, but it is easier to just get them at the hardware store than the money transactions for such small stuff
"I'd rather be a hammer than a nail"