Wow, Jokik, I wasn't aware that personal attacks were allowed on this forum. I'm sure you thought you were being so subtle with your Common Sense for Dummies comment. Aren't you clever! So what are the "more than adequate" precautions are you taking with this dumpter-diving wood furniture retrieval? If you are so well-informed, I guess you know that bedbug eggs take 2 weeks to hatch? I'm shocked that you are being so rude about something that's turning into a public health crisis in every major city, every college campus and many single family homes in the middle of nowhere. I feel sorry for your neighbors. If you were so nice and so smart, then you would give a little tutorial about the details about how "more than adequate"ly you clean your dumpster finds so that other people on this forum will learn how not to get bedbugs if they should choose to continue to dumpster dive. But I suspect you are not so nice and so smart. "Common Sense for Dummies" back at you!

This thread might do better on the Money Saving Tips forum.

I never have nightmares but I have had some odd dreams. I took care of an old man for 8 years. He had been one of my best friends, and when he got sick (emphysema), and got so he couldn't take care of himself, I took care of him. I promised him I would take care of him, so his family wouldn't put him in a nursing home. He had family that lived all around him, but no one had anything to do with him. They waited for him to die so they could get his money....which he left to me, by the way. In the last months, he knew he was dying. I was there every day, sometimes as many as four times a day. For a couple of weeks, I slept on his floor in order to be with him if he needed me. Almost every day we talked about him dying. He seemed to want to talk about it. I asked him if he would contact me in some way, if he could. He said he would, but I know he didn't believe any of that. He said "when you are dead, you are dead. That's it. Nothing more." After he died, I have dreamed about him several times. It is almost like he is there because the things he says are exactly how he would say them. In the dreams, he is much younger and healthy. In one of the dreams, I dreamed I was in the hospital. I was dying and I knew it and I felt okay with that. People were standing around the bed and he was at the foot of the bed. He walked out of the room. In the next scene of my dream, I am walking down my driveway, which is fairly long. He had given me his truck and when I walked past the truck, there was a folded up piece of paper stuck between the side mirror and the door. It was 3 sheets of paper, folded in half, written in pencil. He used to write things to me....stuff he wanted to tell me when I wasn't there. So I knew the letter was from him and I started reading it. It said he was sorry he left when I was in the hospital but he couldn't stand to see me like that. He said I was very brave. And then I woke up....I didn't get to finish reading the letter. Darn it! Then I dreamed that I got a phone call from him. He said, "Why don't you come see me any more?" I didn't want to come right out and tell him because he was dead, so I said, "Because you don't live where you used to live." I also didn't want to tell him that his niece that he didn't like was now living in his house. He said, "What?!" I said, "Kenneth, you died." He said "Are you sure about that?" Which is so funny because that is something he often said to me....if he doubted what I had to say about something. I have only dreamed about him once since then. I was beginning to think that once I told him he was dead, he went on and wouldn't come back in my dreams. I always like to dream about him though, because he is just like he was in real life....so it is almost like a visit with him.

My albums are on Photobucket, and also some on Pinterest, and the links to those should have nothing to do with all these current changes going on. My last post with the links should be able to found fairly easy by scrolling thru some of the posts from a couple of weeks ago. I haven't looked thru stuff yet. Still not happy about all the changes, I don't do "change" well....very set in my ways!! I would like to get rid of the thumbnail posts for other Forums that come up as I don't am not interested on the Holiday page. In the past, the few times I wanted to browse other forums (only one or two interested me) I'd just easily go to theirs. I really only want to see our Holiday posts displayed on the sidebar.....but that's just me. Maybe some of you like seeing others.