clifffaith
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- San Juan Capistrano, CA
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Someone I donated to, I suspect at the request of a memorial fund or walk-a-thon, sent me way too much stuff. Mug, slippers, stuffed animal are the big things that come to mind. I use the mug in my office, and slippers went into the "Europe bag" for stuff that only travels overseas because they were compact and light weight. Stuffed bear went immediately out in the Goodwill bag. Haven't gotten anything in a couple years so they must have given up on me. Speaking of Goodwill, I sell on eBay and when my fellow eBay sellers get to ragging on Goodwill it can go on for pages. Apparently they dump far more items than they keep, let employees have first dibs for free or huge markdowns and no longer employ employ the handicapable as in years past. I think it was DaveNW who pointed out that Salvation Army picks stuff up, so I utilized them on things left from my garage sale that I didn't want to put away again. They came as scheduled, but watching them throw stuff in the back of the truck made me realize that although my breakables were more or less wrapped to arrive intact, I'm sure much of what they picked up that day arrived broken. Better to put it out at the curb -- much to the annoyance of my neighbors, I'm sure. Our previous home had an alley behind it, which I didn't care for at first since I'd never lived on an alley. Grew to love it for putting rolls of fabric, still usable curtain rods and other stuff out. And every now and then I'd find something behind someone else's home that I wanted (old bird cage that I used as garden art comes to mind).