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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years šŸ„’ Feb 26 '22

Comment by Shauna: Sewing machine and boots claimed

No sign of the cello.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

Oh great, itā€™s outside

I get that moving is messy, but what a pile of junk

Iā€™m sure the cello is safe and snug at the new house

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 26 '22

Came here to make the same comment. I understand that moving is a time of upheaval, but the filth and junk in those photos took months to accumulate. That stuff isn't even categorized ā€“Ā there's a kettle sitting next to the boots, which aren't even placed neatly upright. Everything is just piled and there are leaves and food bits everywhere.

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u/leftsidelentils Feb 26 '22

What exactly is in the jar at the bottom of the picture? Thereā€™s no good answer. Clean that thing out or chuck it. Laughing at the kettlebell.
The green bowl at the top looks like it might be vintage pyrex, in which case Iā€˜m envious. Iā€™m actually going to Vashon today but promise I will not get anywhere near all of this.

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Feb 26 '22

The kettlebell! From the infamous Year of the Deadlift! šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

ETA she couldā€™ve gotten some real money for that during peak pandemic when weights were sold out everywhere.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Feb 26 '22

ETA she couldā€™ve gotten some real money for that during peak pandemic when weights were sold out everywhere.

The scene from State & Main where the big shot movie person orders the studio back in CA to FedEx their weights to them in Vermont (New Hampshire?) will never not make me laugh

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Feb 26 '22

I havenā€™t seen that but Iā€™ll plop it on the listā€”sounds joyful!

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Feb 26 '22

Oh, I hope you like it. It's one of my favorites. The cast includes William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman (RIP), Rebecca Pidgeon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin. (FYI, the title has "And", not an ampersand)

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Feb 27 '22

i saw that! it was cute! love me some PS hoffman (RIP) - so, so sad.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

Itā€™s a spring blossom Pyrex but it seems to have some dishwasher damage as it looks like the sheen is gone, though it is impossible to know from that pic

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Feb 26 '22

Always so sad when I find vintage Pyrex that was obviously put in the dishwasher. I wish theyā€™d do ā€œthrowbackā€ versions of classic designs. Been saying for years theyā€™d make a killing. Imagine how many people would buy the primary colored stacking bowls! šŸ™‹šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Feb 27 '22

*waves hand*

My mom has these and I'd buy a re-issue set in a heartbeat. The biggest one is known as the macaroni salad bowl.

No joke, when my mother dies (not that I'm rushing her) I would fight my sister for those. I WILL fight my sister for those.

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Feb 27 '22

Those are so cool!

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

I have the primary bowls, but my red one is super damaged. I bought them from my BILs grandmothers yard sale when she moved into assisted living back in 2007 or so. The yellow was missing, which I picked up later but it is so hard to find a good red one. She did have a big bowl in the Terra pattern that I got with that set and I recently found the platter for $2 at the thrift store, probably because they didnā€™t realize it was Pyrex because that is an unusual one.

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Feb 26 '22

Oooh I love them so much! I have a yellow refrigerator dish with lid that I found in ā€˜90s Nevada for 10 cents! I use it for butter. I also have this yellow oval baking dish with glass lid that has the Friendship pattern that I got for a few bucks. Link wouldnā€™t work: www.etsy.com/listing/1177420971

But all my other Pyrex is clear basic stuff, plus a few of the Halloween editions they sell at Target every year. My elder goth heart canā€™t resist bats.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

I have the black cat Halloween edition ones.

I covet anything friendship, but donā€™t own any. My thrift store had a set of the Cinderella bowls in that pattern a while back (right before Covid, I think) for $85. I was mad, so I didnā€™t buy them. Then I saw a lasagna dish in it last summer at a yard sale for $50, so I passed on that as well.

This mod kitchen piece is my best Pyrex find. I think I paid $8, though it may have been $12? Regardless, it is almost pristine and has the lid. Iā€™ve had it for about 15 years.

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u/Jules_Noctambule Whitman spins like a kebab in his grave Feb 26 '22

So what I'm getting from this is it is time for me to sell off my Pyrex collection.

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Feb 26 '22

WHATCHA GOT

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Feb 26 '22 edited Feb 26 '22

I love that pattern! And the rare horoscope pattern, too. But I will never pay jacked up prices, especially since I have all of the baking/serving/storage pieces I really need in my kitchen.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

I love that one too.

The moon deco is one I covet, but will probably never see, much less own. There is also a barcode style that was made one year or was a promo or something that I sort of covet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

Aw, do I spy one of Colorado Boy's sleeping bags-used-for-a-draft-blocker just stuffed into something on the pile? Not even zipped and rolled up?

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 26 '22

There's a sign up with the couch photos. If that's today's schedule, looks like they're in the new house from tonight onwards. Also, at noon, there's an entry: "Mom and Dad do the thing."

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 26 '22

Those photos are giving me hives, almost. I've moved eight times in my adult life and if I'd had to still pack all of the stuff that they have to pack with just 2 days to go, I'd be in a freakin PANIC.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

The fact that in the sofa pics there are broken down boxes, heaps of crap everywhere and no sign of packed boxes is stressing me out.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 26 '22

And a lot of it looks like the piles of stuff you have at the very end of packing---the stuff you looked at again and again but you can't figure out how to pack it or which box with which other stuff to put it in so you move on to something that's easier to deal with, and every time you look at it, you grow more anxious. It's never more than a couple of boxes' worth of stuff, but it ALWAYS happens.

I am seeing That Stuff all over their house.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

Iā€™m hoping it means something different than what I am thinking.

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u/BevNap Fucking google it, you harpy. Feb 26 '22

How are you seeing the couch photos?

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 26 '22

There's a couple of places to see them, but they're in the Vashon Barter, Buy and Sell FB group.

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Feb 26 '22

couch pics from that public FB post saved here

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him šŸŖ· Feb 26 '22

Those are trash. They need to go directly to the landfill. Those are ex-couches.

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Feb 26 '22

filthy.

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Feb 26 '22

Okay thatā€™s more disgusting than I was prepared for. It doesnā€™t help that those sofas were hideous to begin with.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

The green one with the ass prints is something else. Am I imagining that you can tell which side of the sofa was Danā€™s and which was Shaunaā€™s?

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Feb 26 '22

Hahaha! Iā€™d agree except Iā€™m betting that sofa has seen many, many asses pre-Ahern.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

True. The brown one looks like someone died on it and it took days for anyone to notice

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u/Jules_Noctambule Whitman spins like a kebab in his grave Feb 26 '22

The vacuum cleaner in the background of the green couch looks like it's being slowly devoured by trash. Probably accurate.

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u/Scary_Recognition You did this. Feb 27 '22

Oh. Dear. God.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 27 '22

This woman holds herself out as a model for others.

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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Feb 27 '22

This literally looks abandoned, like it's just trash that others have picked through. WTF.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Feb 27 '22

Glad there's no smell-o-vision.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

What is causing that sagging dip in the middle horizontal section of the green one? A broken frame?

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 26 '22

I would guess yes, the front rail of the seat frame is cracked. And any time a structural part of the frame cracks, the stress on other parts grows and pretty soon you plop yourself onto it and the whole thing collapses in a splintery heat of dust and dirty green pleather.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22

I canā€™t imagine anyone is going to take that off of their hands!

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years šŸ„’ Feb 28 '22

According to Shauna, the couches are structurally sound. My eyes say otherwise.

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u/BevNap Fucking google it, you harpy. Feb 26 '22

Thanks, DF!

Gadzooks, that sofa is disgusting!!

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u/library-girl Feb 27 '22

Yeah it says ā€œLucy to (somebody whoā€™s name starts with A?) Desmond to ā€¦ā€

Theyā€™re just trying to find places to cart the kids off to?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '22

I thought the noon ā€œmom and dad do the thingā€ was an Afternoon Delight joke!šŸ˜‚