Let it go, let it go

[cjsmith]

MANY things freecycled this weekend, including some stuff I am stunned that anyone took. Rob was gracious enough to list it all and arrange for pickups.

People claimed, get this,
- complete plans, blueprints and instructions for building a Lancair IV! (THREE responses!)
- a big bag of towels dating back to our first apartment together
- 80 empty wine bottles
- a car stereo from approximately 1987
- used pillows
- three years of aviation magazines
- sheets and pillowcases worn to wonderful softness, and frayed a bit
- some really bad books
- a candle/incense holder that's basically a sand-pit on a stand (so top-heavy that if you breathe on it it pours sand all over your floor)
- a light fixture that looks like a War of the Worlds ship landing

Plus some stuff that was probably useful. It's amazing.

(Now if they'd only come and pick it up.)

I've also thrown away a big pile of crap. I finally pitched the model airplane my ex-housemate started building. I had to admit that no, I am never going to finish someone else's model airplane. I can't even get my butt in gear to finish MY model airplane. I also admitted that I am never going to find a lovely dark green laundry bin to replace my broken one, and I pulled the spare one out of the upstairs closet to use. Poof, no more duct-taped broken handles. In retrospect I'm amazed I stuck with that thing for so long. (Hey, Bay Area people, if any of you are still reading: how do you recycle an entire laundry basket?)

That upstairs room is starting to look almost nice. Next weekend we do the OTHER closet.

Comments

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

I save every piece of mail I've ever received. Who needs gmail when you have a hard disk at home?

Spoken like a true packrat. =chuckles= Me too.

But sometimes relisting actually helps.

I've had the same experience. I don't mind relisting if I didn't get any takers, but I hate having to it on a popular item and having to sort through the e-mails all over again! So I have a separate folder to put them in. I tell my members they can delete the responses once their item has been picked up, but =blushes= I don't. They're all still there, and the new ones just collect at the bottom.

We have 523 current members.

Oh! I didn't realize Sunnyvale was so small. I guess Tim just casts a big shadow. =smiles= My own suburban group has over 2,000 members, and the city group I help with has over 6,000. (CJ, that's why I sometimes don't get to LJ to read or post! My group is pretty well-behaved on the whole, but the city group is a whole 'nother demographic. =rolls eyes= )

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

I expect some people didn't convert over to the new list when the original freecycle list went away. And Sunnyvale is pretty small - only 131,000 people.