We won in the garbage room lottery
Jan. 9th, 2007 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisOn sunday we packed down all the christmas stuff, changed curtains, table-cloths etc. Then we took apart the christmas tree, with the help of a saw and the cutter I use to cut brass sheets, steel boning etc, and put it in a plastic sack and carried it down to the garbage room. Every house owner who lets flats in Sweden is required to arrange for somewhere for the tenants to throw away large stuff; like furniture and big cardboard boxes. Those who own smaller houses usually rent a container twice a year or so, but in larger blocks like ours there's a special room for bulk refuse. And that's where you put your tree.
It is also a place where you can find interesting stuff. This time it was a perfectly working panasonic stereo with CD and cassette player. Since it was larger and better than ours Rickard took it with him. And this started an interesting chain of moving around things. Our old stereo was moved to the big girls' room, replacing my old CD/cassette player that was getting pretty old and tired. The new stereo was too big to have where we had the old one, so it replaced the old very cheap plastic "cube" stereo that I had gotten when I separated from my ex, and who's only virtue was that it had a record player. The speakers were sooo bad. It was cheap and not very good already when it was bought in the 80s. The CD and cassette player hadn't worked for at least seven years. This stereo as well as my old CD/cassette player were then carried down to the garbage room.
So now both we and the girls have much better stereos. What we do need is to find a new record player. Hard, but not impossible.
It is also a place where you can find interesting stuff. This time it was a perfectly working panasonic stereo with CD and cassette player. Since it was larger and better than ours Rickard took it with him. And this started an interesting chain of moving around things. Our old stereo was moved to the big girls' room, replacing my old CD/cassette player that was getting pretty old and tired. The new stereo was too big to have where we had the old one, so it replaced the old very cheap plastic "cube" stereo that I had gotten when I separated from my ex, and who's only virtue was that it had a record player. The speakers were sooo bad. It was cheap and not very good already when it was bought in the 80s. The CD and cassette player hadn't worked for at least seven years. This stereo as well as my old CD/cassette player were then carried down to the garbage room.
So now both we and the girls have much better stereos. What we do need is to find a new record player. Hard, but not impossible.
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Date: 2007-01-09 11:38 am (UTC)Sadly, my housing company, which is the official council one, doesn't have a room like that here. Instead they just place a big skip somewhere in the area once a year.
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Date: 2007-01-09 04:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-09 04:36 pm (UTC)/Eva
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Date: 2007-01-09 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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