A New Journey Begins for OverEasy - 2023/2024

[OverEasy]

Hi Russ!

I still miss my pale yellow two door pebble green vinyl top 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger and its slant six 225 cubic inch engine with dealer installed air conditioning… I could fix just about anything on it with the tool box carried in the trunk. Nowadays the current cars (since the late 2010s) have gradually gotten beyond my interest level. They run better and longer than my old stuff and get better gas mileage too! But servicing them has really moved to the qualified and outfitted shops and dealerships … it hard for the local owned shop to tool up now… never mind “normal” folks like you and I.

Yeah, the boxing and moving them around bit was really taxing but I try to do the smarter not harder routine… I brought a combo hand truck/cart… I think the wheel and inclined plane along with the lever are the most under appreciated tools we have available.

Boy that was a lot of dumpster to fill!
That must have been an epic effort on your part!

We’re sorta guilty of some of the same problem to a lesser degree but we’re trying to shed some of it so our daughters won’t have so much to contend with later. Thing is all the tools and equipment that has been acquired are sorta useless to the both of them. Downsizing is a challenge after all this time. What to keep, what to toss, what to donate, what to sell, what to simply scrap out just to be free of it… one box at a time, one box at a time, make progress….

Gotta go… the dealership just called and the car is ready for it’s 100-to-150ish mile roadtrip…

Best Regards,
Over Easy

[Russ]

My in-laws were married over 60 years and accumulated a lot of stuff. They also once operated an antique/gift store and accumulated a lot of wares that never sold. We held multiple estate sales trying to sell that off dirt cheap to avoid tossing it.
They threw out NOTHING. I mean NOTHING. Not hoarders, but savers. We found stuff from the 1950s. My father-in-law was a film maker. He kept EVERY PIECE OF FILM from every project he ever made. He recorded everything. I found reel to reel tapes from when he was a child. I felt bad throwing out hundreds of tapes and films, but what do you do with them? We have all his works on DVD so the films have no value.

We felt bad just tossing so much stuff, but there is no market or demand for much of it.

I stacked one dumpster so tight and to the brim, when the guy came to pick it up he said "Wow, I've never seen one done this well. You should make a video of how to fill a dumpster for training purposes". He's right. I should have taken photos. I was quite proud of how I used every inch of that thing.

Then of course OUR house absorbed much of their stuff that we just couldn't toss. We have a big eBay listing now of anything of value. That is another big chore. Boxing and shipping some stuff is a challenge. He had some BIG recording equipment that just wont fit in a box. I'm researching freight shipping for eBay.

We vowed to not do this to our son. It's just not fair to your kids. So we are now in "thinning" mode. We are going through OUR stuff and purging that which we haven't touched in years.

Enough venting. It's been a busy Summer. Whew!

Tomorrow looks like a great day to go sailing. I think we will look forward to some of that.

[OverEasy]

Hi Russ!

Wow! That must have been a real project.
Your in-laws sound like some very interesting people to know.
There are bound to be some fun and intriguing stories within their lives.

But yes, we agree with you…

It's just not fair to your kids. So we are now in "thinning" mode. We are going through OUR stuff and purging that which we haven't touched in years. .