Inspired by the story of the woman who sold a piece of cheese toast on eBay for a monumental amount, I realized I might be able to score big time with this starter kit for hoarders. The most desirable piece might be the brown wooden toilet seat cover. It matched my bathroom redo and looked great in the store. It turns out, brown is not the ideal color for a toilet seat. Turns out, brown Is not a color that I really felt comfortable with, once in place. Not only that, in an effort to ensure hygiene, I wasn’t satisfied with cleaning instructions and ramped it up with an improved cleaning regimen. Sadly, it sprouted splinters, resulting in considerable complaints. It had to be replaced.
The collection includes several cracked flower pots which would still be useful if you put them in place before filling with flowers. The ugly gourd blue bird nest has hosted a family of wasps. and will probably be non-toxic to birds in a few years. I blasted it pretty hard with wasp spray. The kneeling pads are cracked, but probabaly wouldn’t pinch if the gardener covered them with a towel before use. The square plastic container is leakproof. It has held chicken-poop tea for my ferns for a couple of years. The miasma of poop is still quite pungent. Maybe other men wouldn’t object to it the way Bud does.
The ragged soccer ball is an adored dog toy, barely past its prime. I am sure a crafty person could find a good use for the ragged bathroom rug and broken brick. Be sure to get your bids in as soon as possible, or I’ll have to stuff it all in the two mulch bags and dump it.
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I can totally see why a splintered toilet seat would have to be replaced. Your poor husband. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Yea. It didn’t sweeten him up any.
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I’m the queen of refurbishing and have been known to pick a sundry of items over the years but sadly you have nothing I want to deal with. LOL
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Things are pretty well used up when I give up on them.
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Yeah, me too. Hey i’m glad you said what you did about cleaning wood seats though because I’d contemplated putting in the wood, now I won’t.
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It seems like a good idea till you think of other brown stuff you might see in bathroom.
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Must you?
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I’m the same way with the slowing down to inspect. People tend to toss good things and fill up the landfill needlessly. We have become a throw away society always wanting new.
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We need to use it up.
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You have classy trash! But a cheese sandwich? Seriously ?!!!
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Thanks. I am proud of my fine trash. See story about cheese toast.
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Oh, I will have to look for that !
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Posted it!
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Read it 🙂 Weird …….
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Aha.. found the cheese toast story. You are telling it right. $28,000 for a grilled cheese sandwich that looked like an image of the Virgin Mary!!!!
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Isn’t that crazy?
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I need to hear about the cheese toast!
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Posted the story.
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You are a stitch! I might have such a collection, but I wouldn’t be able to make people laugh writing about it.
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I hope no one asks Bud about the splinter in his nether regions.
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Got a bum rap, huh?
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Yes, and I’m all sympathy.
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Hahaha. 😀 Great idea!
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Come on over.
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LOL. Brilliant. Hugs.
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Thx. I have good junk. Wait, that doesn’t sound right!
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If I saw a pile like that at the curb, I would stop. I do it all the time.
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Let me get you my address!
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Good luck 🍀
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Thx. It’s gone.
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As intriguing as your junk appears, I think I’ll pass. However, I once wrote a post based on trash thrown out on a neighborhood street. For yours–a story based on a marital squabble? “Get out, and take your splintery wooden toilet seat with you?”
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By the way, it was in Bud’s bathroom. I got in trouble last week for throwing out some 16 year old ragged underwear type T-shirts. My red PJs had faded on some. Don’t know which was worse, the pink fade or the trash.
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Hoo Boy, I’ve had that happen to me. My faded yellow Florida Lottery shirt, that I’m wearing now, is nothing but holes holding hands.
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I know you love it!
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Ha! I love this post. Well done.:)
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Thank you. I always have to slow down and inspect folk’s trash.
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