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  1. Three gooseberry bushes. I love the gooseberries, but a tree has shaded them over the years and they barely produce in the shade. They need a sunny spot (I currently have them in a 10' x 2' strip) where you can handle a plant with longish spines. Given the way our climate is these days, you could probably transplant them in fall or early spring; I'm happy to hold onto them until then. (They do require spring and summer maintenance to control sawfly; I'll tell you details if you want the plants.)

  2. Red raspberry plants. The berries are great, we just are planting different things in the spot. We do have raspberry cane borers in the plants, but they're easy to control. Given the way our climate is these days, you could probably transplant them in fall or early spring; I'm happy to hold onto them until then. We absolutely have as many as you want. And more. Would you like more?

  3. Two kits for building nested octagonal garden beds (two larger bases and smaller tops). Pros: Incredibly light plastic, easy to assemble, no tools needed (tongue and groove). Cons: Like to disassemble themselves slowly over the course of a year; we've been known to reinforce them with duct tape and sometimes rope. I can't find a great picture but you can probably extrapolate from this corner shot here. (It's the brown one with tiers and strawberries, not the big piece of bending black plastic.)

corner of a tiered octagonal garden bed, showing planted strawberries. You can see some strain at the corners and marks where duct tape has been used.

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Edited to add: Someone has already claimed the kitchen-aid. Thanks!

  1. Good condition wooden two-drawer lateral file cabinet. It's in great shape; I just need space so I went on a scan-and-shred spree. Free to the first person who can pick it up in east Arlington.

  2. A Kitchen-Aid mixer (a 5-quart Artisan series cobalt blue KSM150PSBU), needs repairs. The deal with kitchen-aid small appliances is that kitchen-aid doesn't offer repair services for small appliances anymore (grr argh), and they're supposed to be user-serviceable. And they are! But not if you're a person with disabled hands. So I tried and failed to repair it, and gave up and replaced it, but I hate to waste a gorgeous kitchen-aid that should last decades. The repair options I know of are:

    • Maaaaybe you can get it repaired by Kitchen-Aid? Their website still has the info to get a shipping kit for repairs. When I tried it a couple of years ago I ended up in phone rerouting hell and so I don't know if that service really still exists. But feel free to try!

    • Do it yourself. Requires buying the right grease, and having fine motor control and hand strength. There's an iFixit guide and tons of youtube videos, I'm just not strong enough to do it.

    • Taking it out for repairs. The closest place I can find that does small appliance repairs is Fix Masters in West Roxbury, and I can't drive. But if you drive and are regularly down there, that one seems super easy.

So the Kitchen-Aid is free to the first person who can pick it up in east arlington and also is intending to repair the mixer.

Offering

Aug. 26th, 2023 10:36 am
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I have an unopened 20 ounce bag of Craisins which I didn’t realize until I got home contains sucralose, which gives me headaches. Free to a good home if you like dried cranberries & don’t mind sucralose.

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[personal profile] lb_lee
 Might be handy for teachers or parents!

I have a 30 oz can of blackboard paint leftover from a work project. I needed virtually none so the can is basically full, and it works very well, though I was strongly advised to follow the can's instructions to the letter. It dries as a nice chalkboard green.

I also have a set of unused Staedtler pencils, ranging in hardness from 8B (super soft) to 2H (a little hard)

Free to anyone around, though obviously the paint will have to not go through the mail.
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I have a truly remarkable amount of Stuff that I have been setting aside to give away for umpteen months, and it is oh-so-very in the way. I'd like to get rid of it, so before I try the Facebook free-stuff groups, let's give the DW community a chance to dig through.

I don't have anything like a full inventory, and there will probably be more rounds of this, but here's a first cut of items looking for a good home:

  • A fairly large Crockpot.
  • A dual drip coffeemaker -- two 8-cup pots, so you can use one or both. Excellent for parties, but I don't do many large parties these days.
  • A large suitcase.
  • A microwave oven.
  • Half a dozen comic-book longboxes.
  • A rather good A/V receiver (but old enough that it doesn't have HDMI).
  • A midsize boombox stereo with CD and cassette player.
  • A set of nice solid dishes (ceramic, not plastic) - 8 plates and bowls, 7 appetizer plates.
  • A stacking set of mid-size (27 qt) plastic drawers.
  • A small TV/VCR unit. (The TV is a plain old cathode ray, but it's fairly small and a way to play old VHS tapes.)
  • An iHome clock-radio. (Designed for older iPods, but a pretty nice clock-radio in its own right.)
  • A fair-sized television. (CRT, so it's big and heavy, and only standard-resolution, but if someone has a use for it, please take it.)

Photos of all of these things, with additional commentary, can be found in this album.

This is all in the "first come, first serve" category, so it's mainly aimed at folks in greater Camberville who would be interested in coming by and picking it up. Give a yell in comments or DM if any of it appeals. I live in the Trum Field area, near the intersection of Broadway and Cedar.

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I have a chair problem and am thus giving them away.  Better if someone else can pick them up.

The first is an ordinary metal folding chair. It chairs. There is no more to say.

The other is a red-and-black salvaged DXracer gamer chair of unknown vintage, which I call Vampire Chair. It has a neck pillow (no lower back one), and is very comfortable! It's just too big and heavy for me. Also, it leaves little bits of red and black vinyl dandruff wherever it rolls.  A slipcover would easily solve this problem, and add to Vampire Chair's image and character. The shedding has no effect whatsoever on its comfortability and chairing abilities. It's just unsightly.

Please free me from these chairs!
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EDIT: coins claimed!  Giveaway closed!

 I'm giving away a lot of my childhood coin collection, which is mostly old pocket change from around the world.  I doubt any of it is worth anything, but it might be fun for children.  If you're interested, I list the contents here: https://lb-lee.dreamwidth.org/1158973.html
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[personal profile] zdenka
It's a small upright Knabe piano. The dimensions are 59" long, 39" + a smidge high (with the music stand folded down), and 24" deep (not counting the piano bench).

Read more... )
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EDIT: all books claimed! The giveaway is closed!

Hey guys, I'm giving away more books, trans adult work of lovely quality. No tragic endings! If you live nearby, we can just run by and drop them in your mailbox, or if you reimburse us for shipping, we'll happily mail them to you.

Check out the list and see if you want one!
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Hey guys!  Did a whole bunch of tidying, and giving away a lot of books, comics, and zines, with a bunch of happy queer stuff.  If you live nearby, we can just run by and drop them in your mailbox, or if you reimburse us for shipping, we'll happily mail them to you.

Check out the list, and see if you want any!

Those left unclaimed by 11/9 get donated.

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I inherited a very comfy, quite nice full-size mattress from a tenant before me.  Lovely to sleep on, but it's murder to move, and I sleep like Dracula, so all that space is wasted on me.  Maybe, I thought, I would be lucky enough to find someone in the opposite situation--with a mattress too small for them!

So!  Do you have a twin-size mattress (or some other small sleeping-on item) that is too small for you?  Would you like to trade it for a nice, bagged, clean and bed-bug free full-size mattress that is too large for me?  We should trade!

Alternately, you can buy.  My mattress is currently being stored in a bag with two other full-size mattress with a friend in Arlington, maybe a twenty, thirty minute walk away from Davis.  Of THOSE mattresses, one is in great condition, the other... decent.  Ish.  And I have volunteered to offer to sell those along with mine, so if you find yourself in need of a bunch of mattresses...

My mattress: $100 (or trade for something smaller)
Good mattress: $100
Decentish mattress: $50

Delivery and pick-up...  best if you supply your own, though I might be able to do either in the course of my own move next week, using a borrowed van.  Better not to count on that though.

Let me know if you're interested!
[personal profile] mzrowan
Free Landice L7 Executive Trainer, Series 50

This is an older treadmill, but is still very solid. Landice is known for how long their machines last. It's a bit dusty but still works!

This is one of the few treadmills out there that will fit in the average basement around here without you hitting your head while you use it. ;-) Comes with manual, attached media tray, and heart rate monitor.

You can see pictures over on my Nextdoor post (no Nextdoor account needed to see the pics): https://nextdoor.com/for_sale_and_free/c19bb0d5-de26-4fce-940a-48d4b38a86b8/

Free to whoever is willing to move it out of my basement.
[personal profile] vlayne
Anybody want a microwave? I have a perfectly good (well, it needs a cleaning) microwave? I've moved to a place with a built-in, and don't need two.

Tricky bit: must pick up this afternoon around 4pm, in North Cambridge, a block from the Greek Corner restaurant. Please contact me (DM if you want) with a phone number I can text you at to coordinate.
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UPDATE: All gone! Thanks for the help!

Original post follows.

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Anybody around from Artisan's Asylum or Parts n' Crafts or any other organization which might like a lot of hand tools?

My SO is cleaning out his mother's house in Danvers to prepare it for sale, and part of that is cleaning out the garage, which is where his father's workbench is. His father has been gone for about 50 years, so everything there is pretty old.

We have a clean-out company coming Monday next week to throw everything in a dumpster and cart it away. If anybody wants to meet up with us when we're there this coming Sunday (Feb 3) afternoon, you're welcome to take just about anything out of that garage you want for free.

In addition to tools and fasteners, there's various landscaping equipment that hasn't been used in about 10 years including a (gas-powered) lawn mower.

All of it is free to anyone who wants to come pillage the place on Sunday afternoon, but you have to coordinate with us because we'll only be there a little while, so comment below and/or DM me.

We cannot deliver this stuff.
[personal profile] vlayne
A 1960s "chopper" bike

This marvel of welding currently resides in my sweetie's mother's basement, which we are cleaning out. Given what we know about who was involved, we figure it had to have been made in the 1960s. It's very dusty and rusty, and may not be operational.

It's free to anyone who can come get it in Danvers, MA. We don't have any vehicle large enough to transport it.

If you want it, please contact me here via comment or private message.

(I've already reached out to SCUL twice and haven't heard back. So now it's open season.)
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Hi all! I have a bunch of baby pea plants (~8" high) in need of a trellis. I know it's late in the season, but I just thought I'd put it out there!
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I recently moved from Davis to Porter and now have an entire 2-bdrm moving kit worth of cardboard boxes, wrapping paper, and packing tape dispensers left over. I would like to pass them to someone can reuse them rather than put them out for recycling. Let me know if you want them or if you know who would! 
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I have 3 kitchen-trash-bag size bags of clean bubble wrap, free for the asking. Union Square, let me know if you want them and I'll let you know where to pick them up, thanks!

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