Author Topic: Well, according to the dumpster in the front yard, I'm making progress (Read 2081 times)

K Frame · « **on:** April 13, 2006, 06:45:55 AM »

But from what I can tell in the basement, I've barely dented things.

Actually, the basement was so full that it's a case of having to move piles around to sort stuff out. Once I return stuff to a logical order, I think there's going to be a lot more room in the basement.

I just think that I'm going to collapse if I have to climb the steps one more time...

TarpleyG · « **Reply #1 on:** April 13, 2006, 07:37:55 AM »

Just strategically place a few bundles of TNT all around the basement and blow the whole mess up. Then all you need is a bulldozer and a dump truck to clean up. Starting over is sometimes the best way to deal with this sort of thing.

Greg

El Tejon · « **Reply #2 on:** April 13, 2006, 08:04:28 AM »

Yeah, but you have buns of steel now. Cheesy

Rummage sale time! Let other people haul your trash away.

charby · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2006, 08:05:43 AM »

Quote from: El Tejon

Yeah, but you have buns of steel now. Cheesy

Thanks EL T, I went blind with that mental image!

Charby

K Frame · « **Reply #4 on:** April 13, 2006, 09:34:13 AM »

Ya hear that, Chris? I've got buns of steel, now!

Now when your daughter tries to kick my ass, I'll break her foot!

MMMMMMMMMMMWWWWWWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Actually, I found a box that once contained dynamite. I may keep it. Unfortunately it's not marked with a maker's name, just "Danger, High Explosives."

charby · « **Reply #5 on:** April 13, 2006, 09:50:05 AM »

Mike

If you don't want that box let me know, I'll pay for the shipping to Iowa and I'll buy you dinner if you ever come with in 50 miles of Boone, IA. I scored a old wooden Remington Shotshell case in MO a few weeks ago, 2 5/8 shells. It will look good with my wooden fruit crates and my old wooden beer crate. I still need a dynamite or nitro case to go with them.

Charby

gunsmith · « **Reply #6 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:41:01 AM »

what would happen if you shipped it air? (the dynamite box)
would it alert doggies or sound alarms?

K Frame · « **Reply #7 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:52:21 AM »

Charby,

Unfortunately, there's no top to it, either, and it is filthy dirty.

As for dinner, that's a possibility. Every couple of years I visit friends in Marion, a suburb of Cedar Rapids.

According to Mapquest, it's only about 170 miles.

If I begged, I could bring my friend's 1971 Corvette Stingray.

K Frame · « **Reply #8 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:54:17 AM »

Oh yeah...

A FLOOR! I'VE FOUND A FLOOR! THERE WERE RUMORS THAT THERE WAS A FLOOR IN THE BASEMENT, BUT I DIDN'T BELIEVE THEM!

charby · « **Reply #9 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:56:51 AM »

Well fancy that about halfway between Cedar Rapids and Boone is a small town of Montour. They have a grill your own steak place with some of the best Iowa steaks I have ever seen.

Charby

Guest · « **Reply #10 on:** April 13, 2006, 02:58:36 PM »

I mean no disrespect ...

Mike,

Could you not have found a Reality Show to do a show of how to remove stuff from a basement and make money of this deal?

---

True story:

One of my lady employees , sweet lady, great husband and kids...always said if her pack-rat husband died, she was going to get a dumpster in the front yard and have slide from the second story window, and just start sliding stuff down.

Big house, raised 4 kids, and all.

Husband died of a heart attack, and she told the kids to come get thier stuff NOW. She could not, would not live in that house with him gone. Just too big, did not need a pool or tennis court, already knew of folks that always said " if you ever decide to sell - call".

Sadness turned into laughing tears...sure enough she got a dumpster and was sliding stuff down...

Husband's "business desk" had a Special leather notebook...inside was a super sweet letter...."Well honey, if you are reading this I am gone. Took me 40 years to pack-rat this junk, going to sit back and watch you play with that slide and dumpster you always teased me with...."

Kids took what they had stored or wanted, house sold with furniture, only took personal stuff (including her revolver collection) and moved to a small town where one kid lived into a nice quaint retirement home. Lived a full life until she passed too.

"Sure don't take long to dust this quaint place - especially when the maid does the dusting". *grin*

K Frame · « **Reply #11 on:** April 13, 2006, 04:19:54 PM »

"Could you not have found a Reality Show to do a show of how to remove stuff from a basement and make money of this deal?"

Yeah, we could have called it "PIMP MY BASEMENT!"

No thanks.

All I can say is thank God for sweeping compound.

280plus · « **Reply #12 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:31:15 PM »

I love sweeping compound... :sigh:

Tongue

mtnbkr · « **Reply #13 on:** April 14, 2006, 02:47:14 AM »

What is "sweeping compound"?

Chris

280plus · « **Reply #14 on:** April 14, 2006, 02:58:18 AM »

Its a green or sometimes orange particulate matter that you can put down when you're sweeping a floor. It's got some oils in it so it helps pick up the fine dust and leaves a sheen to the floor. It also has a fragrance all it's own. If you've ever seen it it was when the janitor was sweeping the halls at school.

280plus · « **Reply #15 on:** April 14, 2006, 03:00:20 AM »

First I'd like to make note of my use of the term "particulate matter" but in the same sentence ask, can you use "it" side by side like that in a sentence and be legal?

Tongue

mtnbkr · « **Reply #16 on:** April 14, 2006, 03:37:09 AM »

280, thanks!

Is this stuff hard to find? I may have to file it away in my brain under "things handy to know about when cleaning...".

Chris

K Frame · « **Reply #17 on:** April 14, 2006, 03:43:06 AM »

"Is this stuff hard to find?"

Yep, REAL tough to find.

I had to walk all the way from the Lowe's parking lot to the brooms and mops aisle...

The stuff I bought is dark red-brown in color, and really does have a unique odor. Not sure what it is, but it works like a champ.

The same company that makes Absorbit also makes the stuff I bought.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 14, 2006, 04:07:48 AM »

We always used to call the sweeping compound "Vomitrol", since the school janitors always used it after some kid urped. Wink

Iain · « **Reply #19 on:** April 14, 2006, 04:35:04 AM »

I associate that smell very closely with vomit. Throwing up makes me think of the block wood floor in my primary school hall.

280plus · « **Reply #20 on:** April 14, 2006, 10:42:28 AM »

I was unaware of it's urp cleaning capabilities.

G1 fistful...

Cheesy

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #21 on:** April 15, 2006, 01:01:50 PM »

Could be worse, Mike. When I moved out of my studio in 2, I had a 50 yard dumpster. It was near overflowing when I finished.

Are you just clearing out the basement, or are you moving?

K Frame · « **Reply #22 on:** April 15, 2006, 01:59:43 PM »

Monkey, it's my parent's basement. Most of the junk that I tossed, though, was my Grandfather's. He never threw anything out. Dad grew up in this house, and when Grandma and Grandpa died, Mom and Dad bought the house and moved it. It was a lot closer (58 miles closer) to Dad's work.

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Author Topic: Well, according to the dumpster in the front yard, I'm making progress (Read 2081 times)

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