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Last Sunday a friend asked if we really meant it when we said she could move in. I assured her that we did. She told me it would have to be in a couple of months, I said that was fine. However, twice a year we have "bulk trash" pick up. They will pick up certain things, but not household trash. Having said that, I had a bunch of stuff that had been in bins, but the bins had been outside for 5 years now, 95% of them needed to just go away. I also had a shed that I needed cleaned out and some of that stuff also needed to go away. This included some building supplies from the past few years, some boxes from that bad roommate who we evicted almost 3 years ago and some pretty rough bookcases. Once that shed was stripped bare and swept out, and the trash from it taken to the curb, we started on the room that she can move into. Now, besides some stuff that can be donated that belonged to Connie a/k/a Maggiepie there were 30 boxes of VHS tapes of the wife's. There were also some craft stuff to go outside to the sheds. How did I do this? Well, I mostly supervised, we had a couple of younger men who are into the theater with our geek that don't work full time jobs unless they are actively working on a show. In 6 hours they got the shed, which wasn't awful and 95% of the room emptied, also the bins that had been outside and stuff got ruined and got the stuff down to the street. And they are coming back next Tuesday and we are going to work on more of Connie's stuff that is in the purple shed and another room rearranged so I can get my bed put in there. If they are as efficient as they were Wednesday, and I suspect they will be, then we should be nearly done. We have a couple of more projects, but nothing like these two. Actually, the big project was the one on Wednesday, I didn't know they would be able to get rid of the bins nearly as easily as they did. I need to call St. Vincent de Paul to pick up the donations. Goodwill here in Austin doesn't do pick ups and while I wouldn't mind Savers getting it, they don't pick up either. My choices are St Vincent's and Salvation Army and Salvation Army is entirely too fond of their stuff. I am in pain from being out in the heat and I did actually do some stuff too, not like they did, but I did do stuff. In fact, after they left, I continued to find stuff to go out to the trash/recycling. I must've walked to the street another dozen times taking stuff out.