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The husband was late coming home from breakfast with the boys the other day and it didn’t take me long to realize why.
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My husband’s favorite word is free. And a free table and chairs on the side of the road proved irresistible.
Was it a nice table and chairs in good condition? I think you know the answer to that….
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It was horrible. The table was covered in paint and stickers with an assortment of cracks and gouges.
The chairs? Eww.
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Stained beyond all hope of cleaning. But that didn’t deter the husband, no sir. He was going to fix everything and sell it.
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I couldn’t imagine who would want it, though the table was solid oak and expanded to 8 feet with the leaves.
He spent the next 3 days working on it and with a lot of elbow grease and nail polish remover, managed to clean the table top.
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At this point I felt he had suffered enough and introduced him to the wonders of Old English scratch cover oil.
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Not perfect, but a damned sight better.
To be continued….
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River's world..... 
Old English scratch cover oil for the win! Better living through chemistry…but in this case it is more like back from the dead.
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I love that stuff. Use it all the time….
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That table’s great, good catch, man.
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Don’t encourage him.
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If any of the stingy ass muffs around here ever left something that good out, I’d be grabbing it too. He’s not exactly batting 1000, so I do see your point. But hey, as long as he’s rehabbing throwaway furniture, you know he’s not selling meth behind a taco bell somewhere. 😉
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He despises drugs and never touched them so no worries there. I’d be more worried he’s hanging around the back alley of an antique store trying to score a black market butter churn.
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If OLD ENGLISH can make such a beat-up table look almost like new, think what a NEW American product like this could do:
https://www.qandaskin.com/products/rosehip-cleansing-oil
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Old, new… whatever gets it out of here quicker.
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I love Old English scratch cover oil, believe me when the boys were small it helped a lot! I wish it worked on cars……:/
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It’s good stuff. Covers a multitude of sins.
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Indeed!
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He needs projects. Just think, he could be ‘fixing’ something INSIDE the house instead!!
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True…
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The table looks great. I am sure he is handy enough to recover the chairs.
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Time will tell.
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Wow, he gets it for free and can even make a profit if he sells it. I guess the problem is letting go of the property, right?
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He’s never been good at letting go.
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Well, now you have a table for Thanksgiving!
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To that I say … no.
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What a blessing to have that skill, to bring a piece of furniture back from the dead. My father used to have that ability. He’d see something that looked like junk and turn it back into a valuable piece. I just wish I inherited some of that skill.
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He’s never done it before and I have my doubts. But free is the right price of investment.
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Wow! I could think of a lot of uses for that table.. like Ping-Pong; Selling isn’t one of them.
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We are tabled out. Two big ones in the house, four in the barn and numerous strays in the basement and attic.
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“Numerous Strays”, That made me laugh. It’s not like they have real feet and can wander willy-nilly.
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Maybe… but no one else wanted and they ended up here. That’s a stray in my book.
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Good job. At least it’s tagged for future sale – that’s a good thing.
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That’s the plan. My fingers are crossed he sticks with it…
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I can imagine who would want it. Another version of your husband, of course!
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Fingers crossed. But the next guy will have to pay for it…. that could be a deal breaker.
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He’s so funny. I suppose the fact that he wants to ‘get rid of it’ when he’s done is a bonus. Right?
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Most definitely.
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