re: Our great “throw away society.” Name things you’ve picked up or thrown away.

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They didn’t need a vacuum you pompous douchenozzle. They just didn’t want to spend $400-500 on a Dyson.

You’re a pompous prick who would never, ever confront me in person to say this shite and you know it. You’re a twat.

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Woah, dude.

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i don't dig through garbage

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Liar. Digging through garbage is how you found your SO

I spent a lot of time with my grandparents during the summers. They built their house in the late 1950’s. Most of their major appliances were probably 60’s and 70’s. They were the funky orange, green, yellow, and brown colors that we popular at the time. My grandparents had those same appliances until they died in 2001 and 2004, respectively. My grandfather would always fix them. Of course, with the older stuff, it was pure mechanics and not full of electronics and computer chips. They took good care of their stuff, and their house was like a time capsule. They grew up during the Depression when nothing was wasted and “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I can remember when I was young and watching my grandfather fix things. I was his “gofer.” Stuff was made to last, too. Now everything is cheap and it’s usually cheaper to just replace than get it fixed.

Some of that rubbed off on my old man. Let’s just say, he’s an expert Afro-Engineer. He’s come up with some pretty crazy Rube Goldberg shite in his day to fix things.

Right when this stay at home crap started mrs rattlebucket asked me to go get a John Deere kids jeep thingy with the tractor in the garbage near a nice house. I dismissed it because who throws out working Barbie Jeeps? Got them home, played with the wires a bit and they work fine. Had to buy 1 new battery. Kids have used them every day for a month going strong.

I get on LetGo and VarageSale and find furniture that just needs sand and stain or a coat of paint. Sometimes new hardware cheap from Home Depot or Etsy.

Our bedside tables look nice AF. $40 for the pair of solid wood with great drawers. I sanded and painted white and put new on hardware. My wife is a furniture snob and it even passes her test.

How many fricking vacuums do you need?

Friend,

Ten years or so ago I was at a fine estate sale in the French Quarter. I had only happened on it by chance. It was being run by the family and they clearly did not know what they were doing. It was Sunday around two in the afternoon and they were readying to close.

In the kitchen’s pantry was a stack of a few paintings, some with and some without frames. I looked through them. It looked like glicees of some well know regional artists.

Then I came to a beautiful painting. I knew its artist immediately without needing to see a signature. It was a John McCrady original, one I had never seen before. I asked the owners if they knew who this was. They didn’t.

I offered to buy it. I said, “However much it takes I will take it.”

They saw that I was in love. In an act of pure generosity, the lady said, “Take it. It’s your. My mother would want her art to go to someone who fell in love with it like you did.”

Her act of kindness led me to donate the painting to a local museum where it can now be seen. What an honor to be a part of the story to make a beautiful piece of art part of the public sphere.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

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How many fricking vacuums do you need?

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Just two for my house.

Like I said, I gave them to family members who wanted a Dyson but didn’t want to spend that much on one.

Nice find. Those drink coolers are neat

How many vacuum cleaners do you need? After the 3rd one, you are still digging through trash and buying used Dyson’s.