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Old 10-18-2008, 03:30 PM   #1
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Same here mostly, except for the time we put out a broken and beaten-up gas grill. It stayed there for 2 days!?! So we put a sign on it that said $50 and it was gone the next morning.
This is very funny since I have a working gas grill that noone on Freecycle wants.
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Old 08-17-2008, 03:33 PM   #2
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If I had the time, Glatt, I would. We are going to list on Friday; not enough time. The 'crap' really is crap -- non-working, broken or otherwise unusable. I realize some guy out there really needs my old busted toaster oven to complete his art project, but I don't have the time to find him.

All the clothes, furniture or other household goods are going to goodwill or our local Home Front.
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Old 08-18-2008, 04:16 AM   #3
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Good luck to you Pie.
And I know it's a matter of expediancy, but thank you on behalf of someone who has previously benefitted from someone else's moving largess.

In fact Jesus gave me a cooker when I was trying to claw my way back up last time. It meant I could live on huge vegetable stews through a long cold winter of debt.
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Old 08-18-2008, 12:48 PM   #4
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Hey SG, I was in grad school once. I know how cool it is to get something like that. In fact, I'm currently looking at a pair of chairs we got for $5 from a fellow student. The chairs are coming with us.
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Old 10-16-2008, 08:04 AM   #5
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so pie...
whereabouts in columbia are you now? which 'village'? school district?
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Old 10-16-2008, 08:12 AM   #6
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Yeh - How's it going?... Whats it like? ... Where's the video?
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Old 10-16-2008, 08:29 AM   #7
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Human nature in a nutshell.
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Old 10-16-2008, 12:22 PM   #8
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Human nature in a nutshell.
They just needed that little 'added value' push. My husband thought he was a pretty smart for thinking it up. lol
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Old 10-16-2008, 08:33 AM   #9
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We're in a fly-by-night rental place in "hobbit's glen" right now -- not too happy with it. WTF is up with the street names around here??? I have vetoed certain properties because I am not goddamn living on freakin' Bare Bush Path. What were these folks smoking?

My husband and I are pretty close to making an offer on a place in Hickory Ridge. It backs on the Little Patuxent nature preserve; that's its best feature.

To be honest, Ibby, I don't like Columbia much. There is no soul here. It's suburbia to the n-th power; all strip malls, no downtown. But it's still the best commute to our places of employment, and we can go to DC or Baltimore on the weekends. :shrug: We'll make do.
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Old 10-16-2008, 08:42 AM   #10
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Between Bare Bush Path and Madam's Wood Estate (from ... was it Dana? Or Sundae? ), we have some rather saucy place naming going on.

Please, think of the children.
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Old 10-16-2008, 08:56 AM   #11
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That was Dani.
I grew up Elmhurst Estate.
No rudies there.

We have some crackingly rude place names here, all genuinely old. How someone managed to call something Bare Bush Path in recent times I have no diea - classic!
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Old 10-16-2008, 09:08 AM   #12
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Columbia's street names are mostly taken from poetry. Or from Tolkien.
I suppose I'll get used to it after a while.
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Old 10-16-2008, 12:31 PM   #13
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Tell your husband it was brilliant! I will keep that tactic in mind.
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Old 10-17-2008, 07:58 AM   #14
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I will keep that tactic in mind.
By that logic you should show us your boobs without our having to give you a cheap string of plastic beads...:p
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Old 10-17-2008, 08:43 AM   #15
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By that logic you should show us your boobs without our having to give you a cheap string of plastic beads...:p
Yabbut, I never said anything about 50 bucks. 50 bucks might buy a peek.

Totally kidding...k?
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