faraway, Thanks for all of that info! If I'd have lived in your area, I'd have taken those bricks too. :) I've been advertising in our local paper for bricks for my garden paths and have managed to get some for part of the garden but am still wanting more. My problem is that I keep expanding the garden and now I have way more garden than I have bricks for the paths. I probably need a few thousand if I want to make paths all over like I did in the original garden. I did get some from someone that tore down a summer house but they are in really bad shape and most of them have fallen apart just from last year. They were used in the chimney where they had fire to do all of the cooking many years ago. I have a real mess up there to clean up now because of the bricks falling apart. The other bricks that I got from a neighbor and someone who had answered my ad are in good shape though. I really think that I will join Freecycle because of needing some things like the bricks, and I'm also looking for fencing that someone might want to get rid of (our neighbor has a pittbull that gets loose pretty often, came over here last week and busted the glass out of our screen door, which didn't make us too happy), and I also have some things around here that I'd like to get rid of. They're too good to just throw away, but we don't use them anymore. Thanks again for telling about Freecycle!

The fireplace is faux (bought at auction). The red walls also have a lacquer coating. There is one wall painted pale muted yellow to lighten things up a bit. Our freecycle in the Dallas TX area is Excellent. There was an add last night to give away 6 300# concrete garden benches. They required that you bring 4 men to do the lifting if you were to get one. The problem is that we could not round up 4 people quickly enough to help us lift one on Saturday. So we missed out on one of those. The lady who listed those porcelain statues on my mantle said, "Box full of chipped Brick Brack". I immediately thought about my newest interest in mosaics!!!! She said great. Then when I unpacked the box I could not bring myself to do anything but display them.

Thanks to your Perserverence and Determination, my Firefox has the moderating abilities once again. Zep, I re-installed Version 6-7 and it is working. This was my version I had on the machine previously. So unfortunately any updates will be ignored for a while. Have a very Merry Christmas and relaxing holidayZep, Ravencajun and other professionals. You have really deserved some much-needed time off (hopefully).

Like katkatf, I've had good experience listing stuff for free on craigslist with photos (silicon valley area). Usually gone in 2 hours. We used it heavily after an estate liquidation and were dealing with leftovers. Even had someone who wanted the parts to a really cheap (pressboard) floor to ceiling wide entertainment center. He asked to disassemble it on site. I said fine, as long as all the parts go away. I think it took him 2 hours! The only downside was when there as frenzy of people at once for a lot of giveaways. One person grabbed several bags of clothes (fine with me), but we later found them dumped on a corner several blocks away. I guess they grabbed them, picked them over away from competition and littered the rest. We hauled those bags to goodwill (it was all very clean, very good condition vintage clothing, but the much less desirable leftovers after several rounds of sales including a few private-to-reseller sales). Here's a question: I'm assuming craigslist a good place to sell your older functional appliances? Should we try to get them sold before uninstalling them, so they can be demoed (i.e. is there much of a price premium from being able to prove they turn on and heat/cool/etc)? Or is it better to have them in ready-to-haul state.