Yo Pam!

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My SIL is moving, and downsizing is not the proper word to describe things - purge is more like it.

I believe they have over 200 DVDs, many of which they won't be taking.  If you send me general categories, I can peruse her shelves when I am visiting next week and see what she intends to part with.
Her loss will be YOUR gain!

No charge for any of them.  If you feel obligated to pay something, make a donation to a cat rescue in her name, as their two cats need to be re-homed as well

And John - same offer goes to you.

She also has children's books - some are older kids, like the Wizard of Oz, but she does have a complete collection of Dr. Seuss that we are taking for the smaller Minx.  She (smaller Minx) might not want all of them, so they will be up for grabs to read to Nuggets if wanted.

She and her husband are moving of their own accord (she has Parkinson's Disease and they're going to an independent living place that's attached to an assisted living place), but as you can imagine it's harder than hell to go from a 3 bedroom house with a full (and I do mean full) basement to a 1 bedroom apt and a studio apt.  She's struggling a lot with having to winnow the herd, but her biggest thing is sending thing to homes where they are wanted and will be used.

Hence the DVD/book offer.  Lots of people don't want them anymore, and she would be thrilled if they could go to someone who would want them and watch them.

I know she has Christmas shit and probably a lot of other stuff, so let me know if there are categories you want me to ask about.

[Dave's Not Here Man]

Always in the market for yard and garage stuff. Extending tree pruning pole, pitchfork (for the upcoming insurrection and/ or mulch beds), flat blade shovel for edging, garden hoses, extension cords, car ramps, bench grinder, etc

We had to purge once and to be honest, traveling light was way better than 2300 square feet of shit we didn't need or use. We had an entire bedroom used to store just Christmas crap. We now have an artificial tree and about 3 totes of decorations, that we cut down from 5 just this past holiday.

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Yeah, we've been cutting back as well.

SIL has an entire tote of nothing but Wizard of Oz ornaments, many unopened. Her name is Dorothy, and for a while she collected them.
Last time I saw their full tree, it was fairly plain - mostly plain balls. Why not unpack that ish and use it?
We pared down and got rid of most of our Christmas stuff, but especially the plain balls. We have a ton of ornaments that people gave us that have memories attached - why wouldn't we display those instead.
I'll check for general garage stuff - anything they have would be of the hand tool variety such as shovels, hoses and extension cords. If there is a pitchfork, I call dibs if there are no torches available.

[Dave's Not Here Man]

SIL just brought me his old riding mower over the weekend so if I can find a way to retrofit it with two gas trimmers I can mow the grass, trim the weeds, and fight tyranny all in one shot.

[k9krap]

Thanks! I’ve come to the conclusion that one of the places I’ve been procuring my DVDs may not have the best. The only DVDs that I’ve had issues with have come from Blaze DVDs. None of the ones from Amazon have given me any issues. The Twilight Zone boxed set was okay as long as I was watching those in the middle of the case. The first three and the last 2 gave me issues. Also, one of them was labeled incorrectly and turned out to be a duplicate of the previous disc.

I enjoy mysteries, medical dramas, comedies, political thrillers (although I started watching Designated Survivor a couple months ago and had to quit. I just got to mad (also, the last episode on the first disc crapped out). Absolutely no Hallmark style stuff. Ick. I’m enjoying my umpteenth time watching The Office now.

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Okay, so what I'm hearing is rom-coms galore!

Do you get broadcast TV at all? There's a new show on A&E tonight that seems like it would be right up your alley
Accused: Guilty or Innocent?
It follows people who are accused of crimes through their arrest to trial each week.

[k9krap]

I would watch that. I was really into true crime stuff on Oxygen and ID/Discovery when I had tv. I get nothing. I could probably try to get Starlink but absolutely hate giving money to Musk. 🤣. I see nothing but complaints about the cable service here (it’s a monopoly). I miss Cox. 😢 We had that at mom’s and it was great. They responded quickly to any issues and the internet was reliable.

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Cox customer service has gone waaaay downhill, but their internet is still reliable.