A DF from KK is high praise indeed. You must be doing some
thing right to get moss maggots attention.

Mostly I could care less...but I do take it a bit wrong if someone takes a gift and sells it or trades it...if they didn't want it, they should have let me gift it to someone who does.

If you can "buy low, sell high", then more power to you...it is, after all, the American Way...only a Nigerian Kenyan Socialist Islamo-Fascist would be against that.

Fish on...

Todd

If that's the case, then surely Slappy must be a Nigerian Kenyan Socialist Islamo-Fascist as well.

Fish on...

Todd

"Toddler"

FYI

Stuff I give away with the stipulation aforementioned applies only to my family. It is my intent to instill the importance of NOT placing money above helping others.
One of the boat/trailer/motor combinations I "gave" away to a young couple has a stipulation that if they sell it, they owe me $500 which is what I have into the transom rebuild. Technically, they aren't required to pay. There is no paperwork. They will choose whether their choice(s) are OK with themselves. The old man I gave the outboard to I've never met. I heard about his situation from his daughter who told me that he is crippled from childhood polio, likes to fish and take his grandkids fishing, and his motor fails him regularly.......now he calls her to say how much fun he's having.....how much is that worth?

I sell stuff like anyone else, I just don't use garage sales to do it. Nor do I hold anything against those who do so occasionally. Shopping at garage sales for the sole purpose making a profit doesn't garner my respect, is all. Nothing illegal about it. Personal choice. I think if I did have a garage sale, everytime someone wanted me to lower the price, I'd raise it, and keep doing so until they left. Now that would tickle me.

I clean up foreclosed properties for fun (and money). People hold onto the wierdest crap. Mostly broken crap. Obsolete crap with obsolete missing parts. Give it away, sell it, or throw it away if you are done with it. Really. Unless it is a VHS tape titled, "My first time, volume 8." I have volume 7, found it in a foreclosure.

Can you really have 7 first times?

Seven different people can

Fish on...

Todd

Clutter, hoarding & disorganization are the bane of my existence, makes me crazy.
I see a lot of old folks that hoard/refuse to get rid of things, my 83 y/o mother in law just hates to let anything go.
I think growing up in tougher times such as the great depression creates that condition.

Off topic but...

Hank

How do you manage to find a cut and paste for EVERY topic? We should have a cut and paste competition and see how you fare against others with similar skill.


http://www.cutandpaste.com/


I never would have guessed.

As a guy who goes to alot of houses, some of you are hanging onto way too much stuff. Sometimes it looks like game trails through the house. And every once in a while I see something that makes no sense at all. Like this diamond in the rough in Tenino.

You must read all day, certainly more than I and I noticed, after others teased you, that there is some truth there... you cut and paste often and always seem to be informative and it is almost always relevant. That is a tough combination that I admire.



It wasn't criticism, only jest.

"you cut and paste often and always seem to be informative and it is almost always relevant."

Now that's funny!!!

Hank actually believes he cuts and pastes infrequently.

lol

That could be the biggest load of crap I've ever heard on PP........and that's saying something.

Yer full of sh!t, Hank.

Now peckerhead implying he has a sense of humor is truly
funny. However, he seems to have and echo??

I'd bury it up to the gunwales, put a mast and sail on it and make a pond out of it.

Damn, BWP....you and I usually end up on the opposite sides of things, but all that aside.....that's some funny chit.....loved it!

Programming: If you were born in the '30s you learned to save things.
String from the butcher shop. Sears and Wards catalogs for the out-
house. Pieces of lumber for most any cause, shelves, birdhouses, and
kindling.
I have always owned a two car garage + shop area. It has never
housed a car. Table saw, Router table, Drill Press with attendant
dedicated pedestal, Band Saw and its' pedestal, and three work
benches plus lumber storage and sundry too good to waste stuff.
Carlin would understand; STUFF.
Your chit owns you. lol

I've figured out the some people see potential in many things that others regard as waste. As a result their place usually is a mess. I'm not sure at what point it becomes a real problem, but I know it certainly can turn into a trap of its own.
People who have no mechanical aptitude or are well off financially typically have neat places.....in the first instance, it's because they can't put two parts together, and in the second case, they don't need to.

Druggers and Drunks are not part of this scenario. They are like tornados....going through life tearing the crap out of everything they touch and leaving others to pick up the mess.

I do not think along your lines.
Once it is gone..it is gone. If someone has an eye for piece it would be his/hers once the cash changed hands. Would you think this if you sold your house and they turned around and sold it for a profit six months later.

Kinda backward thinkin.