This is a post I made yesterday.
jenny’s sudden impromptu micro yard-sale! First come first served. No sincere offers refused. (Actually, it’s a FREE “yard sale” lol.)
BTW fun fact: Almost everything here were things I scored from the curbside bounty (Neighbors were throwing away), or purchased secondhand from thrift shop or local online marketplace etc.
It’s great to keep the flow of things going to the next people who will put them fully into use. Around this house, once we stop using something to the point that we even forget we have it, and / or it is simply in the way and hard to stow, it goes!
The bicycles are already spoken for but everything else is available. Update, some of the dishes are moved on to new owners. Air fryer is still available as are the cute seahorse bowl/cups.
Pickup only. jenny’s corner
NOTE I am no longer on messenger.
Please contact me by phone. (Either voice-call or text message is fine.)
PS. Added right here for this blog post: As of yesterday, I officially do not own any bicycles.
One (the one that was too short for me although I loved it’s super simple beach cruiser design) went to a neighbor down the street who will be able to use it, as will her daughter and tenant.
The other (my beautiful single speed fixie that I just couldn’t keep in repair) went to a leader of a local Critical Mass chapter.
But, you might ask, why would I get rid of bicycles? The fact is that without a bicycle shop in the neighborhood, and me not having mechanical skills, And the bicycle shops several miles away abolishing their mobile repair service or not having any in the first place, and the unofficial underground bike repair guy ceasing his operations after finding some steady handyman work out of town, I really don’t have a good way to keep a bicycle in repair.
When I first moved to this neighborhood, the pedicab company where I got a part-time job as a pedicab driver was right down the block, and it was additionally a bicycle repair shop in addition to being our garage. But it closed a few years ago.
None of this is meant to sound whiny. It’s meant to illustrate the challenges for people attempting to get around by foot, bicycle, or bus in a car-centric society where there’s not enough supporting infrastructure. either physically, or socially. Some areas are remarkably socially unsupportive towards pedestrians and cyclists, and this is one such place. And yet there are many many people here who cannot drive, cannot afford to own a car, etc. I work on behalf of those people as well as on behalf of my own needs and wishes.
On the positive side, being almost exclusively on foot has forced me to become more knowledgeable about the bus routes, which is part of my community activist mission.
If I had had a working bicycle the other day instead of walking/jogging the 9 miles from my friends’ place in Ormond by the Sea back to my place, I would not have ever realized how very few bus stops there are above Grenada. (Now, as of March, all bus service above Granada is being eliminated.)
Fixed-route bus service, and the availability of bicycle shops in every neighborhood, are essential in order to have true sustainability of transportation. We have work to do.
Regarding bicycles, I would love to have community bicycle sheds and repair clinics in each neighborhood, where we learn together and maintain a small leak of shared bicycles. With perhaps a membership fee, especially for those of us like me who pretty much have zero mechanical skills. So far my efforts to start something like that haven’t attracted any interest, but you never know when the next person arriving in the neighborhood is somebody who would also want to help create such a community asset.