[Magdalen] Feeling very grown-up

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

If you are trying to find a new home for older furniture, you certainly can
ask the local Salvation Army or Good Will or some other thrift agency. It's
also quite possible that you may find a need through your church.  There's
another very practical way to deal with stuff, however: "FREECYCLE"

Freecycle is a nationwide consortium of local networks that help link a
person who has something and no longer needs it to someone who might be
able to use that. It can be ANYTHING, so long as you are genuinely giving
it away, and there are no strings attached.

Go to this link and you will find places near you that can assist you.

https://www.freecycle.org/

We had a stuffed chair and were no longer using it since I got a much nicer
recliner.  The Salvation Army truck came and they declined to take it away.
"Today, people in need have a lot higher standards of what they will  and
will not accept," he said to us.  He was very courteous, but they did not
want the chair for the simple reason that they did not believe they would
be able to move it.

So I put it up on the local Freecycle, and a student from the Culinary
Institute came, fell in love with it, and took it away.

I have moved a lot of stuff through Freecycle -- stuff which I no longer
use,but I think still has some use in it.  I am sort of their poster child,
I guess. Their main goal to help keep used stuff out of the landfills.  And
it works. Go to that link and it will help you get connected with local
boards in your particular region, and you can even specifically pick which
one(s) you want to use. They do really make it easy.


James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> You might be surprised. In any case, are there second hand stores? If not,
> what about the Salvation Army or Goodwill or St. Vincent de Paul or the
> equivalent? They will usually even come and pick up big pieces.
>
> Jay, who has some experience with such
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Marion Thompson <
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Beyond the totally unacceptable dump, any easily do-able suggestions as
> to
> > where the mahogany may go ?  My agent in PH, who was in antiques for 20
> > years before housing, just says quietly that nobody wants this sort of
> > thing nowadays.  Just one of the practical problems that loom.
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim    ... today my sail I lift ....
> >
> > On 6/27/2015 10:55 PM, Molly Wolfmama wrote:
> >
> >> Shed the mahogany! IKEA is your friend.  Well, my friend, anyway.
> >>
> >> I have the same impulse to throw out everything in the fridge,
> regardless
> >> of its "best before" date.  It's new life time.
> >>
> >> Molly
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in
> no
> >> other way. -- Mark Twain
> >>
> >>  On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:18 PM, Marion Thompson <
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It is essentially a new house on an old footprint.  The blurb says: "A
> >>> secluded location for this totally rebuilt home.  Tucked down a
> laneway in
> >>> an area of lovely homes, but walking distance to downtown.  Tastefully
> >>> finished with Cape Cod wood exterior, engineered hardwood and ceramic
> >>> flooring, oak staircase and 2nd floor walk-out to the deck this pretty
> home
> >>> has lots of natural light and a lovely master bedroom across the front
> of
> >>> the house."
> >>>
> >>> As if in an amphitheatre, it sits in a very sunny dell.  Bring it on!
> >>> Lots of trees and shrubs around, but not too close and claustrophobic.
> >>> They are a good buffer up the steep slope behind me to Baldwin St
> above, a
> >>> quiet little dead-end.  To the  south, it is more open with other long
> >>> properties coming down to me.  Those houses are on Walton St (the main
> st)
> >>> and flank the entrance of my No Exit little lane that runs down the
> hill to
> >>> me, but they, too, are buffered by trees and shrubs.  My impression is
> of
> >>> silence except birds, despite all that is out there.  The house runs
> into
> >>> the slope behind.  Winter might be interesting getting up the lane,
> but I
> >>> remarked that that's why we have Subarus. :-)
> >>>
> >>> Two nice bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a spacious kitchen/family room. Lots of
> >>> closet space.  Space for me to put a garden shed for the outside
> equipment
> >>> and good space in the utility room beyond the kitchen and laundry.
> Hard to
> >>> picture where stuff will go.  I really want to start fresh and somehow
> shed
> >>> the heavy mahogany that will overwhelm this space, and a lot more
> besides!
> >>>
> >>> Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....
> >>>
> >>>  On 6/27/2015 9:33 PM, Eleanor Braun wrote:
> >>>> Awesome!
> >>>>
> >>>> Details, please.
> >>>>
> >>>> Eleanor
> >>>>
> >>>> On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Marion Thompson <
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>  I believe I've bought a house!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Marion, a pilgrim    ... today my sail I lift ....
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >
>