I'm feeling mighty conservative today...

[mykevermin]

And I don't think that I'm kidding.

I've got a metric ton of furniture in my basement, which we're trying to clean out. I'll admit, I'm a clingy person, and I have a hard time getting rid of things (often using poor rationale like "but, honey, we might need a percolator once in the next decade!").

So I have a loveseat, three chairs, on double mattress, and a very tall desk I wanted to give away (plus much more; this was the stuff I couldn't fit into the trunk of a Civic coupe).

I called Goodwill, AmVets, Vietnam Vets, and someone else (it escapes me); noone can do pickups, and the one that could would only take the desk.

What the ? I'm totally OCD, and I have nice (albeit ugly by my own standards) things to get rid of, shit people need. And in' nobody wants to touch it with a ten foot pole.

Again, what the ?

myke.

 

[Trancendental]

The Purple Heart always picks up my used (but nice) furniture - might give them a call.

 

[dtcarson]

I'm not sure why cleaning out your basement makes you conservative, but whatever.

Try Freecycle, if you have a Freecycle community in your area. You won't get the tax writeoff, but odds are someone will want it--I'm amazed at the kind of crap people give away/take on my Freecycle list.

 

[evilmax17]

Suggestions:

-Firewood

-Build a fort outside

-Mini-stage for a puppet show

 

[mykevermin]

Or a lemonade stand! Or perhaps a clinical psychiatry office, like Lucy from Peanuts! Awesome!

I feel conservative because I'm angry that stuff I'm finally willing to part with is so hard to part with; I'm feeling contempt for the people who won't come and pick up my good shit.

myke.

 

[Mr.Answer]

the reason noone picks it up is that far too often the things that are being 'donated' are actually junk that no one would or even could use. You may have some actually nice things, but having worked for a time in a place like that--the norm is that people want to get rid of crap and don't want to deliver it (and pay the fees) to a dump.


Why not take it there yourself?

 

[mykevermin]

[quote name='Mr.Answer']the reason noone picks it up is that far too often the things that are being 'donated' are actually junk that no one would or even could use. You may have some actually nice things, but having worked for a time in a place like that--the norm is that people want to get rid of crap and don't want to deliver it (and pay the fees) to a dump.


Why not take it there yourself?[/QUOTE]

B/C I drive a Honda Civic, that's why.

I'm considering borrowing a truck; my wife has a friend with a pick-m-up truck, so I might use that.

I suppose you've got a point about pickups, though; now you've got me paranoid that they will reject the items; even though *I* think they're in good shape, whether they are considered salable by a Goodwill worker is another question entirely. Hmm.

 

[Mr.Answer]

Rummage sales are also good. I've had a few sales where I'll sell say an old couch or tv stand that are still in pretty good shape. I won't put a price on, so when the first person asks I say "nothing if you take it right now" which they always do. I've gone that route instead of hauling up the truck and 'hopefully' get dropped off somewhere.

works everytime

 

[evilmregg]

[quote name='mykevermin']Or a lemonade stand! Or perhaps a clinical psychiatry office, like Lucy from Peanuts! Awesome!

I feel conservative because I'm angry that stuff I'm finally willing to part with is so hard to part with; I'm feeling contempt for the people who won't come and pick up my good shit.

myke.[/QUOTE]

Nah, if you were really conservative you'd be angry that it's not 100% tax deductible. Then you'd realize that if you donated that furniture, poor people might get ahold of it. Poor, freeloading people. You would then burn all your furniture in a hate-fueled orgy of destruction while cursing the liberal media at the top of your lungs.

 

[Drocket]

Getting rid of furniture is quite easy: Just put it out at the curb on a nice sunny day and stick a sign on it that says 'free'. Assuming that you're right about it being in decent condition, it'll be gone in 1/2 hour (unless you live out in the complete boondocks somewhere.) Actually, you don't even need the 'free' sign. Actually, in my neighborhood, you could put a 'Please do not take' sign on it and it would still disappear in 1/2 hour

 

[mookiemeister]

A few years ago I moved and so decided to donate my futon sofa. It was a pretty nice futon sofa only a few years old. The only problem with it, is that it has one broken column that I glued and taped back together. When I took the sofa to Goodwill, the guy didn't want it. He said it's broken. It took me a while to convince him that the futon is still pretty new and nice and only one broken (but fixed) column.

 

[stocker08]

[quote name='mykevermin']And I don't think that I'm kidding.

I've got a metric ton of furniture in my basement, which we're trying to clean out. I'll admit, I'm a clingy person, and I have a hard time getting rid of things (often using poor rationale like "but, honey, we might need a percolator once in the next decade!").

So I have a loveseat, three chairs, on double mattress, and a very tall desk I wanted to give away (plus much more; this was the stuff I couldn't fit into the trunk of a Civic coupe).

I called Goodwill, AmVets, Vietnam Vets, and someone else (it escapes me); noone can do pickups, and the one that could would only take the desk.

What the ? I'm totally OCD, and I have nice (albeit ugly by my own standards) things to get rid of, shit people need. And in' nobody wants to touch it with a ten foot pole.

Again, what the ?

myke.[/QUOTE]

i also cling to everything. I dont know why, but its a bad habit, that and chewing my fingernails.

 

[David85]

[quote name='dtcarson']I'm not sure why cleaning out your basement makes you conservative, but whatever.
[/QUOTE]


Because he's a loser for going on a pointless rant, and pointless rants (Bush's speach) and being a loser (Bush again!) makes him a conservative.