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1959 Nautical chart guide (Wallingford)
Gifted
Nautical chart symbols and abbreviations from 1959. This booklet doesn't contain any actual charts, just all the symbols you would have needed to be able to interpret a nautical chart if you were boating in 1959. Could be really useful if you're writing a murder mystery set on the water in 1959 or so.
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Tiny notebooks (Wallingford)
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Two cute tiny notebooks in an unopened package.
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Sappy picture (Wallingford)
Gifted
Sappy, sentimental painting of a little girl in late Regency/early Victorian clothing, in somewhat damaged wood with gilt frame. The picture is about 6" x 8".
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Maps of exotic places (Wallingford)
Maps of places where we don't intend to travel: the West Indies, the Mediterranean, and specifically Crete. Go there yourself, or just travel in your imagination.
68d
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Water bottle/thermos (Wallingford)
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This water bottle was left on our porch some time back. Seems perfectly sound, contained nothing but water when we investigated it. Our inquiries have led to no claimants.
68d
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Halo light liner (Wallingford)
This is the aluminum* cup liner thingy for a recessed light fixture. No, I don't know why we don't have all the other parts. *Aluminium for our British and Canadian friends.
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Leaking down comforter (Wallingford)
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This is an old, old full size down comforter, maybe 30-40 years old. It leaks down and tiny feathers copiously. You should not try to use it as a comforter unless you have really good repair skills, not even inside a duvet, because it will continue to dribble its contents out all over the place. You could use it to stuff something anew. If I haven't utterly discouraged you, please let me know when you'd like to pick it up. Contactless porch pickup in Wallingford.
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used yoga mats (Wallingford)
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These mats are old and well-used, but they can still cushion you from the cold floor while you do your downward dogs, or you could use them as padding under a rug, or in the garage. Your choice!
79d
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Dahlia tubers (Wallingford)
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I dug up and divided my dahlia tubers today. I have grown these red dahlias in bad dirt and lousy locations as well as in good dirt with plenty of sun for more than thirty years. They do better in the good locations, but they bloomed and reproduced in the bad locations also. If you give them good dirt, you'll need to divide them in three or four years; in bad dirt, it will take a little longer.
79d
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Over-the-door hook (Wallingford)
Gifted
Slip this baby over the top of your door and instantly gain space to hang tomorrow's outfit tonight. Doesn't work with pocket doors.
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Elderly math and physics textbooks (Wallingford)
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Cutting-edge college-level science and math from 50 or 60 years ago! Compare these to current textbooks and see how much has and has not changed since then. Use them as doorstops! Give them away as party favors!
79d
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Gold-trimmed wood picture frame (Wallingford)
Gifted
Gold-trimmed wood picture frame, 13.75" x 16.75". There was someone looking for fancy frames a bit ago; is this fancy enough?
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Lots of seed beads (Wallingford)
Gifted
Lots of unfinished seed bead projects, several bags of beads as well. You may find the project techniques interesting enough that you'll want to finish them, or you may just want to take them apart and use the beads for something else. Your choice! No-contact porch pickup in Wallingford.
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Defunct vintage roller skates (Wallingford)
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Extremely elderly roller skates, no longer functional as skates because the leather uppers are falling apart. Look at the solid undercarriage! These are the kind of skate wheels people used to repurpose to make skateboards, back before you could buy skateboards already assembled. They weigh approximately a ton. Skates were last used to skate around the Microsoft campus late in the last century or maybe very early in this century, before the leather died completely. I'm not mentioning the shoe size because (did I already say this?) these skates are not functional as skates.
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Two large mirrors (Wallingford)
Expired
Two mirrors: 24 X 30, 30 X 41. The larger mirror has beveled edges and is attached with little brackets to a chipboard backing; the smaller one is flat glass with no backing. Objects in mirror in picture are not included; they're just there because it's hard to take a picture of a mirror on a porch without showing something reflecting in it.
102d
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Canon printer ink cartridge (Wallingford)
Expired
Why do I have just this one Canon ink cartridge? Does it fit your printer? No. 6 yellow, in carton, clearly never been installed.
103d
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Classic games (Wallingford)
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Classic games: Sorry, Clue, Triominos, and a deck of cards. The tokens for Sorry have long since been lost, but we replaced them with some K'Nex pieces. Optionally, you could use the Clue tokens, or pick up some Monopoly tokens somewhere else. Some of us have been known to use pennies, dimes, and nickels as replacement tokens. Your grandmother's old buttons would undoubtedly work as well.
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Small blackboard (Wallingford)
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Small blackboard, 25" wide by 35" tall, shelf at bottom sticks out 3". Comes complete with box of chalk and eraser! We'll even erase our old shopping list before you pick it up.
103d
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Weird embroidered patches (Wallingford)
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Dunno what these are about: they're sew-on patches, about the size of a Girl Scout badge, portraying a sword stabbing a snowflake.
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Memory foam scraps (Wallingford)
Expired
Memory foam scraps! Not enough for a bed topper, but you could stuff a few pillows with these. Contact-free porch pickup in Wallingford.
105d
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Red shelves (Wallingford)
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Wooden shelves, painted red, with towel rack on side. 35" tall, 9.5" deep x 21.5" wide. Towel rack sticks out about 2". We used this to hold cookbooks.
105d
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Round stained glass art (Wallingford)
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Abstract round blue stained glass art, made by Katherine Howes, who used to sell these in the Pike Place Market back in the 1980s.
107d
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Ladybug wings for small child (Wallingford)
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Ladybug wings for small child. I made these for my granddaughter when she was six; they're too small for her now that she's 32. They tie on. Let me know when you'd like to pick up. Contactless porch pickup in Wallingford.
107d
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Peony tubers - already promised (Wallingford)
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A whole lot peony tubers, some with clearly viable eyes, some just solid tuber all the way down. I should have divided this plant about 10 years ago, but I was blissfully unaware that it was secretly multiplying its rootsas if it had good soil to grow instead of clay. Want to take a chance with this plant? The flowers are a lovely pale pink, as shown above. Peonies often do sulk for a few years before blooming.
118d
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Box of small marble scraps (Wallingford)
Expired
Small marble scraps. Make your own mosaic!
122d
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Two-drawer rolling file cabinet (Wallingford)
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Two-drawer rolling file cabinet. This cabinet is the right shape and size for storing sewing patterns, which is what I did with it for many years. It doesn't take hanging file folders.
122d
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Small random red wooden shelf (Wallingford)
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Small red wooden shelves. We used it to hold cookbooks. The picture shows it lying on its side rather than upright. I don't have measurements and it's currently in a storage locker, but I'd say it's about 2.5 feet high and maybe 2 feet wide. We put a drawer pull on the side and used it to hang towels.
122d
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Ivar side unit with cabinet (Wallingford)
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Old Ivar side unit, 12" deep by 70" tall, with cabinet with shelves. We don't have the metal cross braces, but they're not expensive at Ikea. Sorry about the murky pictures; here's Ikea's picture: / Contactless porch pickup. Please let me know when you expect to pick up. Thanks.
122d
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Adult diapers (Wallingford)
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Adult diapers, acquired as hospice supplies. Contactless porch pickup; please let me know when you're likely to pick up.
122d
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LL Bean fleece bathrobe size 3X (Wallingford)
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LL Bean fleece bathrobe, women's size 3X, in good but not perfect condition. Freshly washed! 2-way zipper up the front. No contact porch pickup; please say when you are likely to pick up.
122d