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Let’s take a peek, shall we?

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The far right corner of the basement from Hell now has shelves.

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And useless crap things have started to be shelved.

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A closer look reveals a myriad of treasure well worth the hard dirty work and expense.

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What’s on that shelf?

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Saucers without teacups, teacups without saucers, glasses lifted from bar rooms, and a soup thermos with a hole in the bottom. If that isn’t worth the two thousand dollars he’s spent to date? I don’t know what is.

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Moving down the shelf, we have boxes of nails and screws and a Paymaster check embossing machine… which I might have to give a spin if this project continues.

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Around the bend… the next area to be cleaned (and hopefully emptied) contains a 3,000 ton ( I’m exaggerating but that’s how heavy it felt when I helped him move it down there years ago) scale complete with weights and a rusty old rag can filled with dirty old rags.

What is his emotional attachment to this crap? It’s been sitting there for decades.. unused, forgotten and collecting dust but he won’t part with it and gets cranky when I suggest it’s time to let go.

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Granted, every once in a while there’s something interesting. I pulled an old sheet off this antique radio precariously balanced on another can of rags. The dial spins you from one country to another. Early on line chatting?

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On the way back upstairs I saw that he’d raided my sandwich bags and hung numerous pieces of junk from the main beam.

If anyone needs a dry rotted plastic shuttlecock in its original packaging from the ‘70’s?

I’m your girl.

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41 thoughts on “Let’s take a peek, shall we?”

  4. I know he won’t sell those bottles, but I do know that someone will buy them if he ever does. I have a friend who collects them and some of them are worth a bit of money. I’m still optimistic. Give it Hell, my man.

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      4. Oh, that’s where all the true collectors find their treasures up here. Old houses in Maine always had a spot on the property where they threw and buried household trash. Pure gold.
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      5. We have them around here too. A lot of outhouses in the south ended up guarding valuables during the Civil War,. I guess people who ended up losing everything they had, including their outhouses, weren’t about to give it up to some carpetbagger.

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  7. You know, reading these blog posts of your junk…..I mean treasure filled basement make my OCD flare up. I’m now contemplating cleaning out my garage of my son’s crap, I mean things and taking a lot of it to donate.

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  8. I’ve been wanting to ask, but wasn’t sure if there was some plan. Now I know there is no plan, so: What colour did you want the wall painted? Just in case, you know, you ever want to sell the old house and move into something smaller? It would look so much more salable.

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  12. Oh man, too much. Yeah the insulation/ceiling/shelves are all decent work but if only your husband went into the antique business. I look forward to your post of perimeter filled shelves of useless junk and a big open space. 😅🤣

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