Random Facts About You # 53

I think the old furniture is cool but I wouldn't want to keep something just because someone else loved it for years (if I didn't love it myself). Then I would just be the furnitures babysitter for the next 30 years. We have a small table that belonged to my wifes grandma. It's kind of cool but that's about it for family furniture heirlooms.

We also have 2 or 3 full sets of old "china" dishes. We realized that during the moving process. I said we should give them to a family member who gives a shit about them. My wife wanted to keep them. But why keep them? We aren't even sure which set came from which family. One set is wrapped in newspaper from 1985. That's how long it's been basically unused. We're never going to use the shit. It will sit in boxes....in the basement....forever!

 

I decided to hit up another garage sale this morning because they had a drill press advertised. I bought that small one yesterday but I was just curious about this other one. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to buy it. The one I bought yesterday would work perfect but I just couldn't pass this other one up. I love old machinery and this thing is beautiful. I checked online and can say for sure that it's from the 1940's....possibly even the 1930's. It's so heavy that I can barely move it by myself. I moved it about an inch at a time. I paid $60 for it and saw one for sale online that looked almost exactly the same one for $750.

So now I suppose I'll give the smaller one to a friend of mine. No sense it keeping it and taking up space out there.

Edit to say....it works perfectly and is nearly silent. I couldn't believe how quiet it is.

 

Wizard, you raise some very fine points....You have no idea how many boxess of things just sit here in the basement, in the sheds....and will forever probably......

It is not that i don't like the furniture that is here. Some of it belongs in museums...this house is light and airy......and if i had a huge museum type house decorated like the harvard club minus the heads on the walls....no problem....but i don't......and when asking my brother about my mom's many boxes of beautiful shoes.......for instance....size 5...I am an 8....they are beautiful works of art some of them...but what am Isupposed to do with them? he says....hang onto some of them...ok...which ones...most are still here.....LOL

 

did not go to half price day to get the stuff i took to today...oh, well.....not meant to be at this time, I guess....you can do all you can sometimes to shape your own destiny, but destiny sometimes has other ideas...of which I do not know.

 

I got Vincent's Cafe at night...masterpiece painting reproduction in a frame yesterday....for $12.00...one of my favorites of his besides Starry Night....and i know just where I am hanging it....The frame was worth the price alone and i could not leave it there....
also some great books...and other stuff.....next time...i will be more prepared.

a beautifull sweet antique porcelain doll for $5.00. her dress alone was worth that price....ivory victorianish. It is an antique.

 

oops....$5.00^

 

my parents are still alive so all my furniture is my own shit

 

I fell in love with an Asian rug they had...and I will need a new one soon in other room. It would have been perfect, but they wanted $140.00 for it,....and it was not new....forget it. I could not justify the price to push for it....what so dogs will ruin it anyway...and it was not wool...It was fake shit.
Could have gotten it today for half, i guess....but did not go back, anyway.

 

Sanding stairs today to remove anything the paint stripper didn't get. What a pain in the ass. I'm using a palm sander with 60 paper. Still taking forever. I'm tempted to break out the belt sander. 4 steps down, 9 to go.

 

had some of grams china, shit was just sitting there taking up space and I need a new stereo receiver, and granny influenced me for music, so I know thats what she wanted .. sold to the crazy collector lady ..

 

finished the big job

then sold a mower

now i have to go help a friend out his daughters car blew a belt and its a real hard one to get at with rear engine that is underneath the car ///////

 

i have some tools from my grandfather (a ratchet basically) and a watch

thats it..they were all pretty poor and one aunt made sure she had every last penny to herself before my grandma left ..wasnt much anyway...at the end she basically had a couple dollars a month leftover after the nursing home got their dues

 

btw...asking price for mower was $150....guy pulls out his money and i see him remove 2 five dollar bills from it and he offers $140


i said yes..

 

Yeah, I have a whole dish set from one of my grandmother's.....china with rose pattern. i will never use it, so it is in a box.....forever,,,,,
grandfather's tools....my brother wants....that is good.....I wish he would get a bigger place soon so he can take some of this stuff already, but his place is very small in NYC. He needs a house....but does not seem built for one at the moment.


I am tired today and can't seem to snap out of this poor mood I am in....want to cry and puke at the same time.....must be from tiredness.....I cannot figure out what else could be making me feel this way......today....

 

Holy crap! I guess my daughter posted some picture on facebook last night which said if it got 500 comments, she would crack an egg on her head. Then she went to sleep. My younger son saw it and made 500 comments in a row and the last one was "See you tomorrow!" Comment 501 was my older son saying "Oh my god!" They both just showed up with an egg and she did it.

 

Kids.

They are crazy.

 

I found a pic of a drill just like the one I bought this morning. I think the power switch is different on mine (and it's a different color) but everything else appears to be the same. And after doing more research...I don't think it's from the 1940's....maybe....but 1950's might be more accurate. What do you guys think?

 

looks like a heavy duty one

reminds of when my grandfather died...we had to go take some of my dads tools from grandfathers woodshop because cousins were taking shit before he was even buried and we didnt want them taking shit that belonged to us..main thing we were worried about was the drill press

 

Who got the drill? That's pretty shitty of them to be like that.

This one is pretty heavy duty. I guess it's supposed to be an "industrial" grade drill. The guy I bought it from said he had it for 25-30 years and it was used in a railroad shop before that. Seems fitting for something so heavy.

 

my father owned it...we got it before they started fighting over the bigger stuff

wasnt like they were raiding the place though...my grandmother was giving it away (most normal people will wait until their husband is at least buried to do that)

that part of the family is weird and technically they dont exist to us anymore anyway