Are garage sales a thing of the past?
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is vintage lawn boy for sale on e bay original or 'cut and paste'
Comments (3)How do all you know it alls?The mower in question is an original.The only thing you're right about is the handle brackets being different.The original was bent and not worth saving.They started using this style handle bracket in 1972.The id tag did not get sand blasted it was damaged by acid at some point by a previous owner.The cover plates where made in plastic and aluminum.Early run 69's had aluminum and later runs had plastic.The available replacements where plastic. My mowers are always refurbished and they command a fair price.If you don't like the price don't bid Charlie.If you want new go buy new.If you want unrestored vintage machines for 10 buck then you'll get junk.If you where that smart Charlie you'd already know your air filter fuel leak is a bad needle and seat.Get informed and educated before you spout off in speculation not knowing what your talking about people....See MoreCleaned out the garage! Have garage sale or donate extra stuff?
Comments (13)I love going to garage sales. Here's my take on it. Some people have garage sales where they are selling about $15 total worth of stuff. My sister who comes with me sometimes always marvels at these sales. She can't fathom why anyone would sit in their garage all day for that bit of money. My answer is, well, because they enjoy it! There are people who really don't have a lot to do and enjoy sitting there, striking up conversations with customers, etc. For them, a low $ garage sale isn't so much about the $, it's about the activity itself. The $$ are just a bonus. So... in your case, I'd say donate. I love going TO garage sales, but in my life I've had only about two of them, both times selling large items (furniture and such), thus making it worth my while. You kind of have to use dd50's logic. Estimate how much you will make vs how many hours you'll be sitting there and come up with an amount per hour. Then figure if your time is worth that or not. If not, skip it and donate....See MoreIs allergen cycle a thing of the past?
Comments (14)>>>"not happy with the closeted top loaders in the house we recently renovated * * * the “laundry room” here is a bathroom closet — tucked under the staircase ..."<<< I kind of recall you describing this closet in another post, but I'm sorry that I can't recall what it was. Is the situation that the closet has enough space to fit a full size washer but no dryer? Or it is just deep enough or a tall enough to fit a unitized "laundry centers" (front load with a stacked dryer) but not tall enough to fit a full size vertical stack like the Speed Queen stack? Could you fit stacked compact FL units? Besides the Electrolux EFLS210 compact washer that I mentioned previously, there also is the Bosch 300 (WAT28400uc) which has a designated allergy program, cycle, extra rinse options, and fits in very tight spaces. In the next Bosch model up, the 500 series (WAT28401uc), the allergy cycle is subsumed by the much hotter (170°F) sanitize cycle as well as the ability to provide "extra hot" washes and extra rinses in many cycles. Rococogurl has some detailed posts about her experience with the 500 washer and condenser dryer, and those would be worth checking out if considering a compact FL washer....See MoreOT.....things of the past which were a common part of your life
Comments (140)I was born in the mid-60s and grew up in small town mid-America. When I was little I shared a bedroom with my brother and sister. I only got my own room when everyone moved to college or moved out of my parents' house (I was the youngest). We didn't have air-conditioning. On hot summer nights, we slept with the windows open and a fan running. We didn't have cable tv. We had an antenna and could only tune in two stations (ABC and NBC) on a black & white Zenith. My parents didn't get a color tv until I was in college. My parents had a party telephone line that we shared with a neighbor. We owned a rotary phone. My mom sewed a lot of our clothes on a Pfaff sewing machine. I remember going to the fabric store to pick out patterns and materials. I learned to type on an old Royal Typewriter that was probably made in the 40s. My mom had a Christmas list and typed her letters to go in each card. I collected the Christmas cards we received and kept them in a special purse, and played with them. I also remember playing with vintage paper dolls and failing miserably to make new clothes for them. We had one of those old refrigerators that was difficult to open (what do they call those latches that old refrigerators had?). My mom got milk and eggs fresh from the farm until I was 6 or 7 years old. We rode in the car without seatbelts, and rode our bikes without helmets. We spent a great deal of time playing outdoors and roaming the neighborhood with no supervision. Everyone knew everyone in our small little town. We didn't always lock our doors. It wasn't really necessary. I remember listening to music on my brother's 8-track player. We had a car with an 8-track, too. Albums were around, of course, but then it was cassette tapes which were replaced by CDs. My husband and I still have many of our old cassettes. In the summer we went to the drive-in movie theatre. Before the digital age, I would buy maps whenever we went on a trip and kept them for future use or as keepsakes if it was a place we probably wouldn't visit again. It's been a long time since I've posted here. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!...See Morescarlett2001
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