Productive Sunday

[baronessekat]

Today saw me up earlier than my body would have preferred. Oh well.

got up, dressed, fed the critters and headed out to the house.

Initially my plan for the day was to formulate a plan of attack. But while waiting for the Boo and Boogie to come over I started on the corner of the kitchen that even mom had been avoiding (based on the stuff I found) for 7 years. This being the cabinet under the telephone, the top of the animal crate turned litter box house, and a tv tray.

Threw out a lot of old papers. I mean do I really need to keep a JoAnn fabric's flier from 1999? Didn't think so either.

When the girls arrived we did a walk through of the house for a strategy brainstorming. Since we were meeting up with hearne for lunch as he drove home from the event we had more time to kill. So the Boogie, being the "damnit let's do something" girl that she is, got us started on the spare room. She hauled rubermaid tubs out of the room, Boo handed them down the stairs and I put them in the living room. We got about a third of the room empty and started actually going through a lot of the bins.

eternalmusings, do you want to keep the frame for the canapy on your bed or is that something that can get tossed?

We emptied 5 tubs worth of stuff. Most went into the garbage. They had been things that Mom had put up at the community garage sale two years ago but didn't sell. I'm not surprised the stuff didn't sell. It was all homemade crafty things that grandma had made during her later years, and REALLY ugly costume jewelry of grandma's. Also threw out a bin of clothes that were old, stained and just plain fugly. Nothing we threw out was going to be anything that there was even the slightest chance of selling at the garage sale this spring.

Started a bin as well of "Sis needs to determine if she wants this stuff" for when she next comes back into town.

Dicea has a plan of attack for the florida room so that we can gain access to the bed in there so Meirwen has a place to sleep for Ice Dragon that is actually comfortable and good for her back. All the others who come for ID have to thumbwrestle as to who gets the sofa bed and who gets airmattresses on the floor.

Boogie has volunteered to come over during the weeks and sort and clean things and tackle things that would be bad for my lungs to deal with (like dusting)

Having help with this is going to be the key. Having someone there to help keep me on track while sorting rather than me finding myself going through boxes and just looking and thinking on every piece in there will get this project done all that much sooner.

Things I need to do within the week... find the title of my car so I can contact the dealer friend and see about selling said car. Corrilary... clean out the car.

Things that I will need to do as far as phone calls go... contact the USCGAux again and see if I can actually talk to someone about donating all of dad's old uniforms, the hats, not to mention all the stuff from when he worked media relations for them before he got sick.

Also need to figure out how I should go about selling the electric wheelchair and hospital bed. While the bed is good to have for a sleeping surface, It will be too awkward to move up to the spare room when it's ready and I will have plenty of sleeping surfaces later.

Hey... anyone out there know what kind of place I should contact for getting prices for old LPs? There are about 200-300 in the basement. I'm sure some are worth something.

And do any of you think anyone would want an old Macintosh IIcsx even for parts and would trade for money? Or how to dispose of a desktop Minolta copier (do they need special disposal or can I just put it on the curb on garbage night)?

And as a side... all those that come to help, you have dibs on picking through the BOXES of books (mostly romance, but some mystery and crime drama) as a thank you.

Comments

The electronics...

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

can go on freecycle, it's an easy way to get stuff to someone who can use it. try http://www.freecycle.com, i think that's the address.

the copier, if it's truly junk, can be recycled, i'd put it in the recycle bin, with a note that says something like "doesn't work at all," just to save some schlub the effort of trying to see if it worked. same goes for the computer stuff, tho you could probably take it to a used computer place, and see if they'd deal with it for you, maybe give you a store credit, as I have no idea what those parts are worth. Del Cavallo would know better. my local used computer store will recycle junk parts for free.

--H

[eternalmusings.livejournal.com]

no, I don't want the canopy frame. you can get rid of it.

there were a couple bins in the spare room that I think were mine, just so you know.

[baronessekat.livejournal.com]

yep. I know and have pulled them aside. I'm just sorting through obvious garage sale stuff. There was a box labeled "don't know" in your handwritting that I transfered to a bin for you to sort through as it all looked like stuff you wanted