bingo
Senior Member
- Location
- southeast illinois
I hope people get that before it rains
No wonder I can't sell my items
- Thread starter debodun
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OneEyedDiva
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- Location
- New Jersey
Actually two young men I know, one with young children and the other in a family of four (all adults) told my husband about their bedbug problem that they swore 90% alcohol took care of. They each told him during separate conversations. We never had bedbugs but wanted to know how to kill them in case. We were doing a lot of traveling at the time and I had read that even nice hotels sometimes have bedbugs.
They needed to take these items to the Salvation Army. They store furniture & when there is a fire or whatever people can go there & get it for free to start over if they don't have much $$
My DIL is head of Red Cross here in Indiana, She says R.C. will give them $$ for a few days of motel & food, they tell people to go to S.A. to pick up things needed clothes, food, furniture, etc. All for FREE. If they go to "Goodwill" They charge for everything that person gets.
When Patty passed I took all her clothes to S.A. They sure appreciated it as they don't get many clothes that look new. I've also given them 3 recliners & couches in the past. They came & got them out of the house & said these will work great for people that's been burned out of their house & have nothing.
horseless carriage
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This is the sort of restoration that someone with the skill and insight can achieve. It's the sort of thing that my father-in-law was so good at. We built our home on other people's tatty throwaways. I must emphasise this particular example is not his work, but I do remember the dresser that he restored. So good was it that the couple who bought our place offered full asking price if we left it. My wife squeezed their finances, she got full asking price and five hundred pounds.