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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
This is my current chair. Fresh from the dumps where the old woman picked it up.


True story. She came home and said she found a chair at the dumps. I says to her go back and get it if it was any good.



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Chips and salsa.Ok now time for yard work.


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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Amazing what people will throw away......


While I should be posting about chicken feet or chopped liver, I gotta tell you about what I threw away about a year ago. My parents lived in the house I grew up in for about 45 years, but a few years back they had to move to an assisted living type place due to age, injury and mental issues. My dad was a world class hoarder, which was compounded by the fact that he grew up in the family business of second hand furniture. To him, everything had a potential value and I'm not kidding, he would not throw a thing out, from plastic bags to empty pickle jars to every dang piece of clothing and furniture he ever owned.

Most of their stuff was able to fit into their assisted living unit/garage space, but last year their condition deteriorated and they went into nursing. So everything other than a few small things (old records and record player and a cabinet) went into storage, and then we started to throw things out recently. We've gone through three full size dumpsters and still have a ton of crap to get rid of. Lots of people see their old furniture and say it must be valuable, but I'm tired of moving furniture from one storage place to another and no one would actually buy the crap my parents had. So off to the dumps it goes.

I laugh at shows like Storage Wars, where the people assign ridiculous values to worthless stuff ("Oh, this broken side table with weird stains is a $20 bill all day long"). If that were true, my parents would have a huge roll of cash. They don't.


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Amazing what people will throw away......


While I should be posting about chicken feet or chopped liver, I gotta tell you about what I threw away about a year ago. My parents lived in the house I grew up in for about 45 years, but a few years back they had to move to an assisted living type place due to age, injury and mental issues. My dad was a world class hoarder, which was compounded by the fact that he grew up in the family business of second hand furniture. To him, everything had a potential value and I'm not kidding, he would not throw a thing out, from plastic bags to empty pickle jars to every dang piece of clothing and furniture he ever owned.

Most of their stuff was able to fit into their assisted living unit/garage space, but last year their condition deteriorated and they went into nursing. So everything other than a few small things (old records and record player and a cabinet) went into storage, and then we started to throw things out recently. We've gone through three full size dumpsters and still have a ton of crap to get rid of. Lots of people see their old furniture and say it must be valuable, but I'm tired of moving furniture from one storage place to another and no one would actually buy the crap my parents had. So off to the dumps it goes.

I laugh at shows like Storage Wars, where the people assign ridiculous values to worthless stuff ("Oh, this broken side table with weird stains is a $20 bill all day long"). If that were true, my parents would have a huge roll of cash. They don't.


And - you have to remember: if you see something for sale at X$s, and you have one just like it, yours isn't worth tschidt.


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Jim, you need a reality show of you own!!!!!!


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Originally Posted by WyoCoyoteHunter
Jim, you need a reality show of you own!!!!!!

great idea, he could paris hilton to come over and join them


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Momma would say, "that'll scrape right off" !


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Originally Posted by New_2_99s
Momma would say, "that'll scrape right off" !


If Momma was the one that made it, I'll bet dollars to donuts that it's the result of her "just checking in on Facebook".


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Momma would say, "that'll scrape right off" !


If Momma was the one that made it, I'll bet dollars to donuts that it's the result of her "just checking in on Facebook".


My Mother doesn't do the facebooks !


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I smashed about a pound of Schneiders European pepperettes already this week too.

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i would love those...hosers have a lot of processed cured meat, 'smokies' was another


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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Ha! Thats the old chair we got from Grandma when she died.

Thats for sitting in the kitchen.




This is my current chair. Fresh from the dumps where the old woman picked it up.


True story. She came home and said she found a chair at the dumps. I says to her go back and get it if it was any good.


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Damn that BLT looks good.

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you snack like a millenial, must be daughters' influence...i've resisted the pressure from my daughters', not easy..LOL


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Been shoppin at Trader Joes before the first millennial was ever born.

That said very few items I get from there anymore.

I do get a hankering for their pfeffernusse every Christmas though.

Also two buck chuck every now and again.

You are right about the Daughters though. Especially the college one that got me stumbling drunk a few weekends back.


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one Christmas when the kids were in college didn't know what to get them, so i went to a Trader Joe's (only two in the region), first time ever, started grabbing two of all kinds of stuff, threw it in boxes, wrapped it up. they loved it


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Originally Posted by NVhntr
Yeah, Green Acres II


Beverly Hillbillies would be more appropriate. 😜

To be fair to Jim, when we were kids, we called our parents the Beverly Hillbillies 🤠

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