Cinderblocks

I used to use cinderblocks a lot as part of my furniture. They would be the base of a shelf, or underneath a fan to get better air circulation. I had a few stacked up on my desk to make it more stable, and so I had cool cubbyholes for sticking my bank statements and CD jewel cases and so forth.

But since I've moved, I have 'real' furniture and generally don't want to cart a bunch (12 full size and 4 flat) of cinderblocks up a flight of stairs just so I can have them heaped around. I've found they make fairly crummy lawn chairs, and imagine my sister won't want them sitting on her lawn forever.

So, any ideas on what I could do with these babies?

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I dispose of all my crap on my local freecycle list. There might be one in your area: www.freecycle.org

It is the epitome of "One man's trash is another man's treasure." I've gotten rid of SO much junk that otherwise I would have had to pay a fee to take to the dump.

Lay 'em down, fill 'em with dirt, plant a posy in each hole. If you're adventurous you could plant a magic bean in each hole. ;)

BTW- They're cement or concrete blocks. Cinderblocks went out with sword fighting and knickers, because they were weak and porous. :)

Clodfobble,

I've only recently stumbled across Freecycle, and I think it's an awesome program. We've regifted so manythings we've determined we're not going to be using in either one of our homes now that we're breaking up housekeeping.

And me, well, I'm just tickled with my brand new rollerblades :)

dags

Clodfobble wrote:

I dispose of all my crap on my local freecycle list. There might be one in your area: www.freecycle.org

It is the epitome of "One man's trash is another man's treasure." I've gotten rid of SO much junk that otherwise I would have had to pay a fee to take to the dump.

:thumbsup: thanks for the tip!

you need a few more but you have the start to a really nice built in grill.

Freecycle is the shit. I've moved out an old 'fridge, some unneeded gyp board, an old grille and an old smoker, and picked up a nifty box set of Bing Crosby's Greatest Hits put out by Readers Digest on vinyl sometime in (from the look of it) in the '60's.

I used my cind..er...cement blocks to make a little staircase down the side of my porch, against the house, so my short legged dog could descend easily and take advantage of the roof overhang on wet days. No one likes to deedle in the rain.

I like your new house, Skunk. Since it's on the West Coast I'll bet it cost about ten million dollars. My brother just sold his San Diego shack for $700,000.

Donate the a local Habitat for Humanity site. First find one that use cinder blocks - not poured concrete basements.

Ernestine wrote:

No one likes to deedle in the rain.

What's deedle? :biggrin:

Donate the a local Habitat for Humanity site. First find one that use cinder blocks - not poured concrete basements.

Assuming you live in a part of the country where people actually have basements...

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

What's deedle? :biggrin:

I picked up "doodle" from Three Men and a Baby. While giving the baby a bath Tom says," You have to wash where the doodle was." I think there was also a thousand dollar bribe for changing a doodle diaper.

So, when my dog was a puppy I started using that term and the logical "lighter" version seemed to be "deedle". So on rainey days, or at three o'clock in the morning, my neighbors can hear me saying , "Go deedle!" in a high pitched cajoling voice. I'm sure they hate me for this.
[SIZE=1]Probably much more than Bruce wanted to know.[/SIZE]

Probably much more than Bruce wanted to know.

Not at all. Now it's in the Cellar archives, so when funk & Wagnall add deedle, they'll have a reference to the origin. :)

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

so when funk & Wagnall add deedle, they'll have a reference to the origin. :)

this should be added to the "why we come to the cellar" thread. how many people that you actually see daily would know what Funk & Wagnall is? for all of our ridiculousness, the cellar is a last bastion for the thinking person.

But I never actually [FONT=Impact]saw[/FONT], the mayonnaise jar on their porch. :lol:

lookout123 wrote:

this should be added to the "why we come to the cellar" thread. how many people that you actually see daily would know what Funk & Wagnall is? for all of our ridiculousness, the cellar is a last bastion for the thinking person.

I'll see you and raise you the fact that I actually HAD a set of Funk and Wagnall's.

Best damn encyclopedia in the world. Got me through high school, it did ... I loved it especially when the reference would be made on Laugh-In. Because I COULD. It has since gone to encyclopedia heaven, the victim of a move in which that many pounds of books just wasn't feasible.

My father still has his original set that he bought for my brother and me when we were very young. By the time we were old enough to be using it, it was already painfully out of date.