The Bar, Volume #4

[theCryptofishist]

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I would like to use my 10,000th post to thank you all for the smiles, hugs, hilarity & adventure. Cheers, my Dears! The default world is a kinder place for knowing you.

*mwah*

Welcome to the wonderful and scary world of five digits. Many are called, but few achieve...

[theCryptofishist]

What is the traditional gift for the 10k anniversary?

In China I think it was a wall...

[Elliot]

Savannah says she will just send PMs to the 46,000 of us for a while.

[Patsh]

Waiting.....jpg

[delle]

What is the traditional gift for the 10k anniversary?

In China I think it was a wall...

*hide my shepard's pie behind me and back out of the room*

[ygmir]

What is the traditional gift for the 10k anniversary?

The screen saver they sent me, back then, was fabulous......at 20 K you get a "Tantalus field".........

and yeah Patsh, I lost about 7K posts in the barn burn down.........ah well.

[ygmir]

hey! it 's Friday and no music?

*strokes Juke*

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[Patsh]

Well Yggy, that'll teach us not to hang out so much in bars!

(not!)

[ygmir]

Well Yggy, that'll teach us not to hang out so much in bars!

(not!)

if you're there, Patsh, it's damn good company I'm in!!

*pours drinks and slides one down bar*

[Patsh]

*delayed reaction, thanks to Will Chase's BMan update... grabs drink off bar in slow motion*

Thanks, Yggy!
MMMmmmm... spiced rum and ginger ale! YUM!

You know, I only come in here for the people...
I LOVE all our ePlayans, and treasure our acquaintance!
You've made such a difference (and improvement) in my life...
I can't imagine life without you all!

*draws a big chug of drink*

oh yeah, and all the bestest drinks, too!

[ygmir]

agreed Patsh!
it's da best!!

Skol!!


quafs cognac**

[ygmir]

so, I'm needing advice:
I'd like to get rid of a ton of stuff here.
I don't have the time or patience for yard sales.
But, would love to get some cash from the deal.

What to do?
do I find a random person to put it together, and sell stuff?
Ebay?
I dunno........I know there will be some antiques and collectables, just because.........

I bet I could fill a 20' conex with stuff to get rid of, just to add scale.

[Patsh]

Dang, Yggy... I'm in the same boat, being the "Packrat-From-Hell" that I am. And, I have good taste in my packratism, I'm told. Trying to make space, after going from 40 acres out of town to a regular house 'in town' with all the fancy stuff like water and electricity, but not so much space. Must...let...go......
Mostly, I've been finding (slowly) people who 'need' stuff and am able to give it away. There are lots of things I'd rather sell, as you personally know, like the table saw and such.
Not sure I'd have the patience for a yard sale. Craig's List for the big stuff, I guess. That takes organization and photos, neither of which I seem to have at the moment. So, no help here for you, unless I can come see what you have, and trade stuff!
(that's not much help, really now, is it?!!)

[^Rhino!]

hey! it 's Friday and no music?

*strokes Juke*

Whoops, yggy, I thought you said 'strokes UKE':

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[ygmir]

well, I do love tradin stuff........ahaa
the dang fuel would cost us more that most of the stuff is worth, I'd imagine.

be fun though!

I'm even thinking of getting rid of my MV/Mule!

[ygmir]

Hey ^Rhino!
haah, well, beautiful as that is, you gotta know, had I said "Uke" id'a gone here:

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[Ratty]

I just put 4 garbage bags on the curb. Plus tennis rackets, pottery and books. The neighborhood will absorb the clothes and towels. By tomorrow night it will be gone. Great way to clean house.

[ygmir]

*staggers in (emotional fatigue)*
I need a drink.

ya know.........when there is a stack of straight lines, innuendo, ass hattery and potentially narcissistic pseudo intellectual psycho babble, all in one thread. And, really, because you feel it's gonna turn ugly, you don't want to play........but see so many opportunities, dang,

just gotta walk out and come get a drink.

[gyre]

It's no fun setting you up when you play the martyr and don't play.
And I'm not seeing anything intellectualish yet.

For the record, saying you're not saying anything, is not not saying anything.

[MikeGyver]

so, I'm needing advice:
I'd like to get rid of a ton of stuff here.
I don't have the time or patience for yard sales.
But, would love to get some cash from the deal.

What to do?
do I find a random person to put it together, and sell stuff?
Ebay?
I dunno........I know there will be some antiques and collectables, just because.........

I bet I could fill a 20' conex with stuff to get rid of, just to add scale.

Kinda sounds like a fun job to go through all your fun stuff.

[gyre]

I bet we could do some sort of trading email list.
A lot of what I have is rare, but that isn't always valuable by the time you sell it.

Other than that, yeah, find someone to market it for you.
Craigslist for most, ebay and specialist areas for some stuff, on down to freecycle.
Anyone doing a lot at once can do more without wasting time.

As for the trouble, I once tried to sell off some collectibles.
Gathered and valued them, called dealers and wanted 10% of value.
No interest.
So I put them in the right national classifieds, and slowly sold them bit by bit, eventually even selling some to the dealers that ignored me before.
Final take = ten times the original price.
Spent time on it, but no real regrets.
So that's how that can turn out.

[AntiM]

Ah, Yggy, stuff.

I gave up on yard sales, people want to pay pennies, or they steal. Ebay is a pain in the ass these days. Everyone wants free shipping because the big sellers can afford to offer it. I've not tried Craigslist. I do offload things for free via Freecycle, but even that can be annoying.

For the antiques and such, find someone who specializes and have them list your items. Not an ideal way to get top price, but you'll be balancing convenience against price.

Good luck!

[ygmir]

*wanders in, makes tea* ha! second day out of coffee, and not enthused enough to go to town.

yeah, good advice, thanks gang. I'll figure how to off the stuff.

well, a sunny and cool Saturday, still scrambling to get stuff ready for winter, mostly Hof stuff. Gotta lay some brick up around the windows to keep the snow from drifting inside the shutters.

*strokes TV, heads for ROS*

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[unjonharley]

I'm putting together a one buck yard sale..Cleaning house and throwing shit in crates.. will just dump the crate on a table. Whats left, sweep off and garbage.
75 years of crap..even stuff from friends ad family that have died years ago..

[ygmir]

hey, it's Smashy and Big Blue Doggies birthdays today!

Happy, Happy Birthday!!

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[magicmarty]

Happy Birthday Smashy & Big Blue Doggy!

Beautiful sunny and warm day here today. Work on some pottery and finish up some Playa clean up. The Bike mostly.

Have a great weekend, kiddies

(((LF)))

[Elliot]

Hey, good morning! Looks like I slept in! Read a novel a bit late last night -- John Grisham is hard to put down.

I hereby nominate an item as the most difficult thing to get rid of: A 32 inch television of the old cathode ray tube type. Weighs around 150 pounds. One neighbor gave it to another neighbor. (Guess who transferred it.) Then the second neighbor moved out and abandoned the TV out front. No response after a week on Freecycle. I also put a "free" sign on it. Couple more days and it goes to the recycling yard.

[Ratty]

Elliott, don't forget your 5¢ a pound they will pay you.

[gyre]

They may charge you extra for a crt.

Elliot, if it's a low quality one, the market is mostly the very poor and near homeless and the elderly, and people that don't care about tv much.

If you look around, you'll find someone that wants it, usually with limited net access.
I use the hidef crts and some beat the stuffings out of anything new in their size range, like the high range superfine pitch sonys. (1400 lines resolution)
Better to find a use for these than toxic waste if you can.
i re-home these things all the time.
A network that helps the homeless could help, and I have actually driven around and given them to people sitting on their porch.
The hotels that cater to borderline homeless may be a place for them.
They don't provide tvs in all of those.
Many people will use them, but have no way to move a larger one.
A lot of the later ones are lodef and actually low quality, but have a digital tuner.
That was required after a certain date.
People off the net may be tech unsavvy or just have no idea how cheap these tvs have become.
Many people still don't understand the tuner boxes can be used with them.
Good luck!

[Elliot]

The TV is a Sony Trinitron (or some such word). But what it really is, is a 150 pound lump of coal. These days, even the borderline homeless (and we have tons of those in this town) expect a five-foot TV that they can hang on the wall with a couple of thumb tacks.

And I anticipate paying a few bucks to get rid of it, yes. Won't be the first time. Just last week I paid $15 to dump a mattress that was "adorning" the front yard of a home recently vacated. It's very much worth the effort and the few bucks to help keep up the neighborhood. (I suppose I could take this to the Cascadia thread.)