What a great week I just had!
First, I took a carload of fabrics to my friend Ann, whose quilt guild likes to make charity quilts. I've given them four carloads in the last several months, and maybe this is even the last of the bunch. I've saved out the Kona solids, and all the commercial striped fabrics, and the batiks, and the African fabrics, and some other stuff to precious to give away, but now I think all the other quilting fabric is gone.
Next, I took a carload of non-quilting fabric to my friend Alana, who teaches textile art at our arts magnet high school. What a bunch of miscellaneous stuff -- upholstery samples, fabrics too heavy for quilting, cords, tapes, I don't even remember what all. I drove up during textile class and the kids rushed out to the car and unloaded everything, which was delightful.
Then the construction guys started taking apart our old bathrooms. I asked them to remove the cabinets carefully, rather than smashing them to bits, and advertised them on our neighborhood email list.
Some guy came over the next afternoon and took them away. He sent me a thank-you message and said he had also taken the "vintage medicine cabinet" out of the junk trailer. Couldn't believe it -- this fixture was low-end in 1963 and hasn't gotten any more charming in the intervening decades, just a mirror flanked by two naked vertical fluorescent tubes. But somebody wanted it!! What a thrill.
We tried so hard to get our guys to be careful in the removal of the cabinets in the bathroom. Because people do reuse the old stuff. We had quite an intense conversation regarding the 30 year old cast iron Kohler soaking tub. They wanted to smash it up. We wanted to reuse it in the hall bath. 30 years old and used perhaps a dozen times--the wall next to the tub actually had no insulation. Cold. Well, they struggled and did get it out in one piece. Looks great in the new bath.
ReplyDeleteYou are in a good space, being able to divest so much 'stuff'. I hope to be there, but it's going to take some effort to look at all of it and be realistic about what I will actually USE. Isn't it great when someone can use what you cannot?
ReplyDeleteSounds like your house is really coming along - a new bathroom and more space to move around in. I think it is wonderful that you are letting other people share in your bounty instead of throwing it away.
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