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Cake day: January 21st, 2020

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  • I can only speak for myself - I don’t want to have to package and mail the things I am getting rid of. They don’t have much monetary value, but I feel good someone needed it and is using it.

    There are scams that sellers have to deal with like the scammer that will send a bogus check to pay for the thing and ask for change back. You deposit the check and a small number of weeks later your bank takes back the money because the check was bad. The scammer gets their ‘change’ back and the item they bought. You get left with a possibly negative bank account.


  • It’s like the Ikea lamp commercial. A person has a well-used lamp they have had for a long time. They go to Ikea and find a new lamp that is better and nicer. In the next scene, the old lamp is left on the curb. In the rain. alone. abandoned. The Ikea person comes on and asks “Do you feel bad for the old lamp?”

    I only hope we eventually have some of the local communities that were subreddits of yore - like SacramentoBuyNothing - a place to share your old lamp so it does not have to sit out in the rain at the curb.> waspentalive

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  • The story of WasPentalive - My normal avatar is a depiction of the R-Pentamino in John Conway’s game of life. A 5 cell arrangement that throws off a number gliders in different directions. In one account I was simply PentaLive (Penta = 5 Live=the game of life) but I lost the password to that account at the same time as I no longer had access to the email address I registered. So I had to create a new account - I was Pentalive so I became WASPentalive.

    Did I misunderstand the question?