I recently went into my basement looking for shoe polish. I don’t have a designated storage area for shoe polish, so the bag I keep all my polishing materials in bounces from spot to spot. I usually have a general idea where it is, but it is almost never in the same place. Perhaps I should spend some time thinking about a permanent location for my shoe polish.
Anyway, while I was in the basement, I saw a giant box of big nails. I don’t remember ever seeing them before. I’m pretty sure that I didn’t buy these nails, so they could only have come from the previous owner. It’s a fifty pound box, which could mean hundreds of nails. What would I ever need that many nails for? I don’t feel like I should throw them away, but at the same time, I have so much junk around my house that I never use, why should I keep more?
I keep thinking about doing a Purge. But what about useful items? I can’t throw them away. I’m too lazy to do a yard sale. So they continue to sit in my house.
Whatever you do – keep the name. It would make an excellent swear – “Hot dipped common nails! I just burned my thumb!!”
Do you have Freecycle in Baltimore?
Even better. Have a “Yard Free”. Just put stuff in your yard with a giant sign that says “FREE”. That’ll take care of it.
I think you should rig-up some sort of compartment under your truck that can hold and, when you so desire, release the nails.
Perfect when you are being pursued by The Law Mad Parents Rabid Fans.
Lloyd was going to use the strike-through thing, but he did it wrong.
Did you just come across this giant box of nails now, after living there for 8 years? Maybe the previous owner stashed his cash in the bottom of that box. People did that sort of thing back in the early 1900’s. If you find any…I get 10% for this tip.
Good thinking…and a great entrepreneurial (sp?) idea, Peggy!
Check eBay, Brad, to see if anything comparable is already listed and if it’s worth wrapping them up for transit. People’ll buy just about anything from there, I hear (my husband may be a better person to ask about that than I…then again, don’t ask…).
Didn’t you have a flood/sewage problem in your basement last year? How did these nails get overlooked when you cleared out the basement?
Maybe instead of a bunch of cash in the bottom, you might find a bunch of crap!
Altogether now:
“EEEEWWWWWWWW!”
[But the box looks un-water-damaged, doesn’t it? Amazing! Was it levitating down there all this time?]