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Marthe48

(19,323 posts)
Sat May 28, 2022, 12:29 PM May 2022

Have free time, thinking about things I have

Just wondered if a wooden gout leg rest, spindle style can be reused for anything else, without dismantling it for the parts? I ended up with 2, and after I found out what they were, would be happy to send them along :/ I might put them in my yard sale.

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Have free time, thinking about things I have (Original Post) Marthe48 May 2022 OP
I think auto correct got you. What is it you have 2 of? Shrike47 May 2022 #1
gout leg rests Marthe48 May 2022 #3
Is that the same as a gout rocker ? dweller May 2022 #2
I saw the gout rockers Marthe48 May 2022 #4
They came up on google too dweller May 2022 #6
My stuff usually shows up on Worthpoint Marthe48 May 2022 #8
;-{)🖖‍ Goonch May 2022 #5
Looks like mine Marthe48 May 2022 #7
20 Lies About Clutter Stop Believing This! (found this useful) Goonch May 2022 #9
I'm downsizing Marthe48 May 2022 #10
;-{)🖖‍ Goonch May 2022 #11
lol Marthe48 May 2022 #12
I will not stand for this anti-clutter prejudice here! :) ZonkerHarris Jun 2022 #13

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
1. I think auto correct got you. What is it you have 2 of?
Sat May 28, 2022, 12:36 PM
May 2022

I have found, after 10 years of retirement, that letting things go is good.

Marthe48

(19,323 posts)
3. gout leg rests
Sat May 28, 2022, 12:53 PM
May 2022

I noticed them in the shed when I was looking for something else. When I bought them, I didn't know what they were, but they were solid wood, undamaged. lol

dweller

(25,243 posts)
2. Is that the same as a gout rocker ?
Sat May 28, 2022, 12:47 PM
May 2022

Found one in a thrift shop, they had it marked ‘child’s rocker’
I told them what they had, they had no idea

eBay has them $39 - $249 for wooden ones


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Marthe48

(19,323 posts)
4. I saw the gout rockers
Sat May 28, 2022, 12:56 PM
May 2022

but the ones I have are stationary. I bought them at different sales years ago, and found out what they were back then. I'll have to look at them more closely. I think I only paid a couple dollars each for them.

Marthe48

(19,323 posts)
10. I'm downsizing
Sat May 28, 2022, 01:49 PM
May 2022

but it isn't easy. I have a bunch of stuff sorted and ready to go. My husband and I collected avidly for over 40 years, so there is a lot. He passed away 5 years ago. We had moved from a ranch to a huge 4 square house. I know now it was to have more room for our collecting habits, so living in that house was great, but we weren't there long enough to get organized. On top of the move, we were watching our grandkids pretty close to full time, and also tending to my dear mother-in-law. We never sold the ranch, and when he got sick, we moved back there to make it easier for him. After he passed, things were complicated because I had to get the bigger house emptied, to sell it, and after other people packed for me and moved stuff either to the ranch or storage, everything was jumbled up. I was ready to get things out in 2019, but realized I had to sort, because I was missing things I wanted or needed to keep. Like my stand mixer whip, which I have yet to find. I have a list of things I'd like to locate, and feel great elation when I run across something. Anyway, it's taken the last couple of years, but the basement is about ready. I say almost, because my daughter brought most of the rest of my stuff from her storage, and I have more boxes to sort, and will have to figure out what boxes were sorted and which got mixed in. Plus, with Covid, and being on my own, I have projects, including box sorting out around the house, so when I have company or host a holiday, everything gets more jumbled. My living areas are the way I am them, and I keep them clean, but I really can't wait to clear some of this stuff out.

On top of what we already had, a month before my husband was diagnosed, he bought the contents of a lady's garage, which took 3 of us 5 days to pack, and we never got to look in all of the boxes. It was a big garage, and none of us packing really paid attention to what the others were packing, and the lady wanted it gone. I think she thought 5 days was too long. Ha. Most of that stuff is in my storage building, and I don't want most of it, but again, need to sort through the boxes to try to locate the missing items. Sorting is my new life.

I was going to have a yard sale on May 7th, cancelled because of rain, but I sold a nice-sized load of stuff to some dealer ladies I know. I have another buyer planning to come out, and have several boxes of vintage Christmas stuff ready for her.

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