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aemeijers wrote:
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Sweet. So what did you end up doing with it? Stashing it away for a
lifetime of projects, or reselling it and making a few bucks? Either
way, better that than the landfill. If I tripped across anything like
that now, I couldn't take advantage of it, short of renting a storage
locker. No space, no tools, and I'm no Norm Abrams skill-wise, either.

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Built quite a lot of furniture w/ a sizable fraction (was doing that as
moonlighting job back then) and then another sizable fraction went into
replacing and extending interior trim, doors, windows, etc., of
antebellum houses in Lynchburg during a period where many old, rundown
rental houses in the older part of town were being rehab'ed by other
young professionals needing affordable housing in a tight market and
(like me at the time) w/ more time than actual cash.

Unfortunately, what was left I had to sell owing to not having storage
for it when left Lynchburg...

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