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Weirdest Items Flung - Part 1
This is one of our favorite parts of the Super Fling Boogie: posting the weirdest items Flung (and in some cases, found). In the past, items such as pregnancy tests (positive and negative), dead goldfish frozen in the freezers awaiting funerals, rusty cars and car bits, dead plants, 90 pounds of aluminum cans, broken appliances, appliances without cords, just the cords, stuffed critters, 20 year old kid school projects and more have entertained and inspired us. It is amazing, the number of people who go through the weirdest item list only to realize they have "one of those" someplace in the attic or hiding in the basement. Have fun flinging and enjoy the list (remember - only 15 minutes at a time - this list will keep getting longer)! Keep those weird items rolling in (and don't forget to say where you are from)! - FlyCrew
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My husbands fingers! Yes, I mean his actual fingers. He had an
accident a few months ago where he stuck his hand up under a running
lawnmower and severed parts of 3 fingers. The paramedics
were unable to find them to reattach, but my SIL went out there the
next day on her hands and knees and found them. My DH thought they
were neat to show guests, I thought they were a little gross, but
they've been in a tupperware container in my freezer for too long! I
cringe every time I look at them. Time for those babies to go!
~flybaby fluttering in Athens, GA
- In clearing out my front porch closet I found an old glucometer( to measure blood sugar) that my mom had given me to dispose of at least 3 years.....I was keeping it "in case". I'm a 1 month old flybaby and loving it...Bye bye glucometer...also a blister pack with 1 meal worth of pills left in it...Weird!!!
JS- Ontario
- Hi, FlyLady and Crew,
The DPW guys just loaded my 'bulk items' pickup into their truck.
Here is what I flung:
1. A 1957-era wall oven. It gave up the ghost a week before the election. We finally replaced it with a modern self-cleaning oven. Last week I was finally able to roast a turkey I bought for Thanksgiving!
2. A large, warehouse-style window fan that DH bought for $2.00 at a garage sale at least 15 years ago. Never used by us. Never advertised in the local sell-it magazine. Even DH is starting to come around.
3. Four heavy lawn & beach loungers that had been unusable for at least 15 maybe 20 years. DH wanted me to repair them. The parts to repair them were always too expensive to make it worthwhile. I finally persuaded him they were never going to get fixed.
4. The remains of an umbrella-style clothesline which was here when we move into our house in 1968! I used it once or twice, then put up aline under the porch roof to use in good weather.
5. A small TV roof antenna that was from a local subscription service that died at least 20 years ago. When we had the roof replace 10 years ago, the roofers left it under one of the foundation bushes.
All gone to junk heaven. I hope the town makes a dime on recycling the metal. I don't have to see or maneuver around that stuff any more.
FlyBaby in Natick MA
- It was a big event for me when I started shaving my legs at 13 -- I bought the newest
razor out at the time, the Gillete Sensor Excel. I saved ALL my used cartridges in the
little plastic trays that they came in, and ceremoniously stashed them in a large green
makeup bag that matched the color of the cartridges. Over the seven years that I used
that razor, I FILLED the bag with those little cartidges! Why was I saving them?? Was I
going to look at each cartridge one day and remember each and every time I shaved my
legs?? Who knows... But they are gone now! :-)
-NYC Flybaby
- My husband thought it would be a good idea to buy some state surplus items so he could make a profit seling them. Uh huh. That was two and a half years ago and not one of those all-important items had left my house until FlyLady taught me (and gave me the encouragement to confront my packrat DH) to get rid of the clutter. Here is a list of the items that were haunting my garage and attic:
industrial size floor scrubber, sans ignition key
industrial size washer (it may have worked once)
industrial size dryer (see above)
copier with collater (probably didn't work after the 4 hour journey in the back of a UHaul)
4 line painters (for striping parking lots)
4 drafting tables
2 broken wheel chairs
4 computer monitors
2 televisions (long since dead)
fax/copier/printer (cartridge was too pricey to buy to find out if it worked)
2 cash registers (no keys)
6 tires
normal size washer (dead)
kitchen stove (dead)
4 obsolete computer towers, without operating system
I cannot estimate how much all that must weigh, maybe a ton; but, it was able to bless a family with no income because they took it and resold it or stripped it for parts. I can now park in the garage, can walk through the attic and am FLYing a happy dance because of it. Oh, and when you add on all the clothes, coffee mugs, nick nacks I no longer love and mismatched dishes that a I gave to a family just starting out, I was able to buy - and find a place for - new dishes I really love and bless other families, too. The blessings keep coming when you FLY!
Thanks FlyLady,
Carol is FLYing high in North Carolina
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This may not be too out of the ordinary, but I just flung some frozen fish from my freezer that had been past its prime for...well...quite a while; a turkey from Thanksgiving 2003 that was frozen, thawed, and frozen again--not good eating, so it stayed in the freezer until I got around to it; and several (and I do mean SEVERAL) pounds of beef. You see, my siblings and I split a beef every six months or so, and what's new goes on top. You can imagine what's on bottom! I flung it all in an effort to reclaim my freezer space and from now on, every piece of food going in gets a date of entry written in very large black ink! So much for wasting money by letting it get pushed to the bottom of the freezer!
Thanks for all your encouragement!!
Flying little by little...
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How about 250 lbs. of obsolete computer parts and supplies! My son started building computers at the age of 12 (he's now nearly 24) and had all accumlated all kinds of computer stuff filling a walk in closet and two cabinets. My son is now serving in Iraq and won't be back until November/December 2005. I had his friend who was in town visiting, go through these parts and sort the pieces into what could be salvaged (very little) and what was trash. The stuff that was trash was taken to the dump, and I had his friend take what he felt could be salvaged. Some of the items included 5-1/4 computer disks, DOS based programs (back from 1993/1994) and a couple small hard drives.
- I got rid of stuffed dead frogs that were playing the
saxophone (a souvenir I had picked up in
Mexico...don't ask me why I paid money for it and
brought it home in the first place!).
I also got rid of a birdfeader in the shape of a
monkey that was made out of a coconut.
New Iowa Flybaby
- I just flung about 400 pieces of paper – all copies of FlyLady emails and great ideas from the website! I didn’t know FlyLady’s e-mail wisdom would be re-sent at the most perfect moments throughout the year! I was collecting FlyLady “clutter” so I could “read up” on how to get rid of my clutter!
California FlyBaby
- Dear Flylady and Crew:
The weirdest thing that I have flung is a large tin of stones. When my husband and I honeymooned in Dillard, Georgia, we went to a “Gem Mine” and got all sorts of stones. I have hung onto these stones thinking that I would put them into one of those glass lamps and it would be a reminder of the fun we had “mining” the stones. Well they sat in the old, large popcorn tin in the corner of my bedroom for 8 years. They were donated to the local high school for the earth sciences class. I am so relieved they are gone!!
- Today I tossed out the toenail clippers for the dog who died 3 years ago!
- Dear Fly Crew,
I just wanted to let you know I finally threw out an old satellite receiver that got hit by lightening several years ago. I don't know why I was keeping it! Isn't that weird? It was heavy, too, so it added some serious weight to the pounds I posted. Hmmm..I wonder what other heavy items I've forgotten about!! I know there's an old VCR around here somewhere!
Still taking baby steps in Georgia
- Hi! You asked for the strange stuff we've been flinging. Here's my oddest to date. A Clairol Hairsetter! You know, the thing that heats the rollers for you. I never used it. My DD did a few times, but she's been on her own for 20 years now! Didn't take it with her, either. Now it's outta here.
On the taxiway in KY.
- When decluttering last night I found a bed pan in an upstairs closet that was used by our home's last owner! Yuck!!
- Dear FlyCrew
We moved to this house in Junes 2003. Like any new homeowner, we replaced
lights, fans, light switches, outlets, old thermostats for new
programmable thermostats and lots more. Well,as today was garbage day, I
just tossed all the objets d'junques - over 30 pounds worth of cieling
fans and electrical outlets. Our workshop is almost tidy now!
I also collapsed all the boxes from Christmas and all the boxes I had
saved 'in case' for mailing gifts - another 20 pounds of cardboard. Out
they went as it was also recyclable trash day. I can now get to the attic
(which is in the garage) to put away the Holiday decorations.
As yesterday was warm (for Massachusetts), I walked the yard picking up
branches and sticks from the high winds last week. I threw those on the
compost pile. Altogether a rewarding and freeeing day.
FlyBaby in Mass
- I was required in Senior English back in the 80's to keep a journal where I had to write 1000 words each week. The journals were a magnetic photo album filled with written memories and memorabilia that I treasure. This was before the scrapbooking era as we now know it and there wasn't all the great stuff to store memorabilia in so some stuff didn't make it in the album. For example, I kept the first (and probably the only and last) cigarette I ever smoked as a 17 year-old. I found the cigarette butt floating in a picture box.
Other weird finds: our first-born's umbilical cord stump (what was I thinking? - under the influence of changing hormones obviously), and my husband's hair from his high school mullet in a plastic Regis bag.
- Hi, dear Flycrew.....
I pulled out a bottom drawer to throw away some of my DS's little league socks,
heel guards and elastic bandages (with no elasticty left) etc. only to discover a mouse skeleton underneath the drawer!
Sorry...I didn't weigh it!
(Guess I should mention my son will soon turn 40!!)
Thanks for coaxing me along.
My love to ALL of you.
Betty
- Well, I took the challenge of flinging in the front entry closet, which I had turned into a craft closet. Among other things, I found and FLUNG a 3 year old bag of Candy Corn. I bought it and 2 others just like it because they always run out of the brand of Candy Corn that I like and I wanted to "stock up". Closet was such a mess I forgot I had it! FLUNG! (and eliminated the extra pounds it would have put on me! )
Finally Flying with less junk in CA!
- Here's part of what I decluttered today:
Seventeen (!) used-up checkbook inserts, with blank deposit slips in the back. I couldn't toss them because of possible identity theft....They made a nice noise going through the shredder.
How many years' worth of checks is that? What was I thinking?
Flying in NC
- One silver-coated almond wrapped tightly in plastic so it wouldn't tarnish. Six bottles of nail polish in colors I simply do not like. Five bottles of hand lotion in scents I do not like. I kept only the few nail polish colors I like and use, and the few lotions I also like and use. There is no need to keep silver-coated almonds for any reason as I do not like or use them (my DS was fascinated with them years ago which is why we had one, but he has long since forgotten about it).
Thank you for reminding me that any type of cosmetics I don't like for any reason and won't use, no matter that they're still "good," are nothing but clutter and can be discarded. What I kept are the ones I use and make me smile.
--Flybaby in Pittsburgh
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