The *Stuff* You Learn
Dec. 10th, 2003 01:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanOn Tuesday, I learned that "stuff" is a Bad Word in the moving biz, a big No-No, to be avoided at all costs. Nobody has a lot of stuff, they have a lot of *items* to move.
Well, I say it's stuff, and I'm doing my best to say to hell with a lot of it. Well, if not exactly hell, then the fires of the Hennepin County trash burner, or the recycling bins, or into the hands of others who might have some use for it. Not necessarily in that order, of course.
Still, the first moving company will be estimating a 15,000 pound move for me. I'll be curious to see what the others think, and even more curious what the final weight turns out to be. Anybody want to enter the "How Much Does Geri's Move Weigh" lottery? First prize is 10 pounds of Geri's stuff. Second prize is, of course, 20 pounds of the same. And so on....
Or you could guess how many bags of office papers I can fill for this Friday's recycling pickup. We'll have the answer to that one in a couple of days.
Eek! (And onward....)
Well, I say it's stuff, and I'm doing my best to say to hell with a lot of it. Well, if not exactly hell, then the fires of the Hennepin County trash burner, or the recycling bins, or into the hands of others who might have some use for it. Not necessarily in that order, of course.
Still, the first moving company will be estimating a 15,000 pound move for me. I'll be curious to see what the others think, and even more curious what the final weight turns out to be. Anybody want to enter the "How Much Does Geri's Move Weigh" lottery? First prize is 10 pounds of Geri's stuff. Second prize is, of course, 20 pounds of the same. And so on....
Or you could guess how many bags of office papers I can fill for this Friday's recycling pickup. We'll have the answer to that one in a couple of days.
Eek! (And onward....)
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Date: 2003-12-10 05:36 pm (UTC)Along similar lines of amusement, though, the buyer's inspection last Friday turned up a gas leak of all things. I was at SMOFcon, so Jeff came over and checked to see if it was safe to wait until Monday for regular plumbing rates, or whether to pay the weekend rates, which were roughly twice the cost. And I spent the rest of my time in Chicago posing the question, "Sell Toad Hall? Or blow it up?"
The leak is now repaired, so I guess I'd better get back to packing.
(My dad has suggested that taking the stuff we want from his house and then setting fire to it after he dies would be a heck of a lot easier than dealing with everything else. It would be a win without having to even consider any insurance fraud. I may well feel the same after a few more weeks of packing. For now, I'm enjoying going through the stuff.)
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Date: 2003-12-11 06:10 am (UTC)We could have made a program item.
What to do with Somebody Else's House.
Sunday, 2PM, Salon E: Geri Sullivan, Bill Higgins
So, Geri has this problem. Well, many problems, but two leap to mind. She has many cubic meters of stuff. She has a gas leak. What, exactly, do you do? And how do you best record whatever you did.
Extra points if some of the stuff lands on the MA/CT border.
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Date: 2003-12-11 10:27 am (UTC)Among the stuff I'm stuck with because I forgot to give it to Bill last weekend are three packets of Mad Scientist and Magic Crystal Kool-Aid.
Somebody Else's Microwave? Heck, Somebody Else's House!
"Somebody Else's ..." is a program track that could be done once, brilliantly. Hmmm....
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Date: 2003-12-11 01:32 pm (UTC)