Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 20, 2021

At least she’s gotten to step one: Recognition.

Our local “web sales facilitator”, last time I checked, charged a flat fee per item, or will dicker about a specific amount for “all of them”. But you have to pay either in advance or some now and the rest after the sales taper off.

And it’s Bets from Luann offering that service!

problem solved___

The Kenosha Kid

I am clearing what I laughing call my workshop in prep for downsizing in the next few years. The bothersome factor is that, old as the stuff is, much of it is still of good use in the right hands, but finding buyers is hard and occasionally tricky. Donations are not the solution, as that market is also very small.

But then, for a person who was brought up in tight financial circumstances and was taught to always try to repurpose tools or items, [the phrase then was waste not, want not. ] just throwing them away is a very hard thing. That is especially true when it seems the mantra of the current era is use it and toss it.

Any mirrors in all that stuff?

Some days you can’t give it away.

I began downsizing when I retired. I told the kids to not buy me anything that will end up as part of my estate. I am becoming more ruthless about what I toss as I get older. I kept my LotR, math, Mark Twain, and Vonnegut books. I gave away most of my tools.

When my mother passed on we had a heap of yarn she had bought for various knitting projects she was “going to get around to”. Since I don’t knit or crochet I believe we found a knitting group through the church and donated the whole kit and caboodle along with a number of patterns.

That’s pretty much the American way nowadays. Pay somebody to do something for you because you’d rather sit around.

We need to stop the use and dispose of without a tight recycling process with it.