posted on May 31, 2004 01:38:28 PM new
Hi, guys. Quick, if you get TLC by cable, check out the Clean Sweep show on right now (PDT). A rather ditsy gal will see her new office in minutes (10 mins. before the hour). I mentioned this one (it's a repeat show) a few months ago--where they'd decided how to hang the jewelry she wanted to sell, etc. etc.
And just take a look at their two messy rooms that are being re-done.
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posted on May 31, 2004 02:19:55 PM new
That is not a real ebay room (I saw this one acouple months ago). I say we send them to a real ebayers house. Send them to organize a room where nearly nothing can be thrown away.
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posted on May 31, 2004 02:42:59 PM new
I don't think they could do it to my liking. I have my own ways of sorting things, and I don't know how they could guess and get it right.
Eric is A GOD, isn't he? I love that boy. So smart, so handy, nice disposition. Wish I could adopt him.
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posted on May 31, 2004 03:07:20 PM new
I have my jewelry hanging on a peg board. It's much easier than hanging it from a rod where you have to disconnect and reconnect the chain! I got the idea from seeing my boyfriends tools hanging from one. You can get different sized hangers. I bought another peg board and larger hangers to hang my purses I sell from. I plan to be completely organized - in the next 10 years or so. LOL!
posted on May 31, 2004 03:19:21 PM new
LOL Roady - there are many thing I would like to do with Eric, but adoption is nowhere on that list
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posted on May 31, 2004 04:31:35 PM new
I watch Clean Sweep every now and then but don't know who's who. Is Eric the gorgeous blond carpenter? If he is than I'll let him do a little hammering at my house!!!
posted on May 31, 2004 04:54:13 PM new
You hit that nail right on the head
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posted on May 31, 2004 05:14:31 PM new
I ended up watching the next couple of episodes too. Pretty funny - that couple who had big trash bags of Beanie Babies piled all over their bedroom.
The one after that, though, kinda irked me a bit. The main guy was after the man to get rid of his fave old football helmet. Just wouldn't stop. Also his diplomas, etc. He'd have been shown the door real fast if he tried that on me.
They do have some good ideas, though. The sequence of sorting into three categories makes a lot of sense. Also they completely empty the room before they do one single thing.
Ah, now, if I could just get myself motivated. Maybe I'll have a little bit of Two-Buck-Chuck while I think about it!
posted on May 31, 2004 05:36:02 PM new
Yes, that blond god is Eric, my fave guy on TLC. He is sweet and strong at the same time. I used to hope my daughters would marry a doctor and a lawyer. Now I wish they'd married a carpenter (just like Eric, of course) and a plumber. (Actually married an architect and a photographer/computer worker, great guys.)
Lucy, I agree about that football helmet bit. That staffer is an Australian and he probably didn't understand about the football thing in the U.S. I too thought he overdid the insistence and was glad the homeowner got to keep the helmet in the end. Could you tell what school it represented? It sure looked a lot like the "Y" the Brigham Young Univ. uses, but the fellow and his lifestyle AND girlfriend didn't remind me of their good children-students at all.
Having cleared out my father and my father-in-law's stuff upon their deaths, I can testify that NO ONE wants your diplomas, especially framed, or your awards and honors. When we moved to CA, we ditched a bunch of plaques I'd been awarded and some of my husband's. A diploma is important, of course, but we took things like that out of the frames and filed them.
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My first thought was Yale. Yes, the man went way, way too far insisting he give it up.
My son's Naval Academy yearbooks went astray (meaning his now ex-wife tossed them in the trash!) and I've now succeeded in replacing the last one he was missing. They mean a lot to him. Things like that shouldn't be mere fodder for a yard sale.
Just recently I sold a couple of lots of things that would otherwise have been tossed. One was a bunch of historical memorabilia from a little town in Indiana, the other was portraits, AKC certificate, etc., of a champion dog. Both groups were from estates where there were no heirs. I just didn't feel they should be junked.
Some things need to be kept. When there's no family for them they can go to someone who will keep them. Does this sound dumb?
posted on May 31, 2004 09:29:13 PM new
Another thing to keep in mind, with old stuff you can't find the family for--almost every town in the U.S. and Canada has a historical society which usually welcomes anything about former residents. Ours here in our town of 2200 permanent residents has a historical society with 525 dues-paying members! And we are hungry for information about our history.
You can access that group in a town, usually by contacting their chamber of commerce or by googling for it.
Nothing historical should be discarded until it's been offered to such a group first!
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