Hey SG, I was in grad school once. I know how cool it is to get something like that. In fact, I'm currently looking at a pair of chairs we got for $5 from a fellow student. The chairs are coming with us. :)

Both here and at our last house freecycling is/was as easy as dragging the stuff out onto the sidewalk. There's no changing your mind, it goes quick.

so pie...
whereabouts in columbia are you now? which 'village'? school district?

Yeh - How's it going?... Whats it like? ... Where's the video?

Same here mostly, except for the time we put out a broken and beaten-up gas grill. It stayed there for 2 days!?! So we put a sign on it that said $50 and it was gone the next morning.

:lol2:

Human nature in a nutshell.

We're in a fly-by-night rental place in "hobbit's glen" right now -- not too happy with it. WTF is up with the street names around here??? I have vetoed certain properties because I am not goddamn living on freakin' Bare Bush Path. What were these folks smoking?

My husband and I are pretty close to making an offer on a place in Hickory Ridge. It backs on the Little Patuxent nature preserve; that's its best feature.

To be honest, Ibby, I don't like Columbia much. There is no soul here. It's suburbia to the n-th power; all strip malls, no downtown. But it's still the best commute to our places of employment, and we can go to DC or Baltimore on the weekends. :shrug: We'll make do.

Between Bare Bush Path :lol: and Madam's Wood Estate (from ... was it Dana? Or Sundae? :smack: ), we have some rather saucy place naming going on.

Please, think of the children.

That was Dani.
I grew up Elmhurst Estate.
No rudies there.

We have some crackingly rude place names here, all genuinely old. How someone managed to call something Bare Bush Path in recent times I have no diea - classic!

Columbia's street names are mostly taken from poetry. Or from Tolkien.
I suppose I'll get used to it after a while.

They just needed that little 'added value' push. My husband thought he was a pretty smart for thinking it up. lol

Tell your husband it was brilliant! I will keep that tactic in mind.

Well, since none of the above isn't an option ... at least the People's Democratic Republic of Maryland is closer to The Cellar.

I go to Baltimore every other year for a conference, never liked chowdah, but love a good crab cake.

edit: note to self. Check original post date and read entire thread before posting, as the deal is done and I'm 4 months late and probably a dollar short.

Wolf, I'll take your "dollar-short" any day! ;)