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Hi,
Thought I would open a happy thread to share anything nice.
One of the girls at our ms physio group was putting her Dad in law into low care so had to get rid of lots of furniture. They had 2 pale blue velour electric recliners. These usually cost a lot of money (over $1000 each) & were only about 18 months old. Only one was used by the old man & the other by visitors only. They could have got a lot of $$ for them but asked a minimal amount($450) for the pair of them which is really cheap. I went & looked at them & they look like new. I said we would take them both. Then my friend asked me if we could use 2 other recliners, one was partially broken (no control of the recliner) but the other one was in excellent condition. It is a brown velour &the footrest comes out with the lever, reclines by leaning on it. We took that one & then they gave us a small coffee table to go between the chairs too! It is an old one but put a cloth on it & its great.
Our lounge room now has 2 blue velour recliners on one wall, a brown velour recliner on the other wall with our wooden rocker that I got from my Aunt & Uncle so it is a very old one. It looks real nice & much more practical. We put our old lounge suite on the nature strip "free to good home" & it went in 1 hour, it was fraying & the springs were not real good, someone will use it.
It is so nice being able to sit in a comfy chair with my feet up. I wouldnt have known this friend if it wasnt for ms group.
Thats my good story & I am sure others have some too...please.
Hugs, Sue
Thought I would open a happy thread to share anything nice.
One of the girls at our ms physio group was putting her Dad in law into low care so had to get rid of lots of furniture. They had 2 pale blue velour electric recliners. These usually cost a lot of money (over $1000 each) & were only about 18 months old. Only one was used by the old man & the other by visitors only. They could have got a lot of $$ for them but asked a minimal amount($450) for the pair of them which is really cheap. I went & looked at them & they look like new. I said we would take them both. Then my friend asked me if we could use 2 other recliners, one was partially broken (no control of the recliner) but the other one was in excellent condition. It is a brown velour &the footrest comes out with the lever, reclines by leaning on it. We took that one & then they gave us a small coffee table to go between the chairs too! It is an old one but put a cloth on it & its great.
Our lounge room now has 2 blue velour recliners on one wall, a brown velour recliner on the other wall with our wooden rocker that I got from my Aunt & Uncle so it is a very old one. It looks real nice & much more practical. We put our old lounge suite on the nature strip "free to good home" & it went in 1 hour, it was fraying & the springs were not real good, someone will use it.
It is so nice being able to sit in a comfy chair with my feet up. I wouldnt have known this friend if it wasnt for ms group.
Thats my good story & I am sure others have some too...please.
Hugs, Sue
When my daughter was about 6 months old she was an escape artist from her car seat. My mom in law decided it was time to get her a new car seat. Well she wanted to go to Sears, but they closed in 25 mins. We lived 20 mins away. She piled us in the car and made it there in 10 mins. She got the car seat she wanted and 2 outfits for her grandaughter and one for herself. Then we stopped and got a cold soda on the way home. LOL! What a crazy ride, and lots of fun.
hugs
Kim
He repaired it & just charged me the cost of the junk yard part. About 20% of what the car dealer quoted me. I was so relieved I just thanked him and gave him the money.
Later I felt guilty that I didn't even offer him more for having done this to for me. Really I was expecting that he would do it & after it was done he would charge me more than the new car dealer. I was that relieved & I didn't say he should take something for the time he had put into it...
So I sent half the money that the new car shop had quoted to me to a local food bank as a donation in his name. I knew the food bank always sent a thank you for cash donations that are made & they did send a letter for the donation made in his name. The letter said the donation was made in his name because of the money saved on car repairs. He has the letter hanging on the bulletin board at his shop.
So I thought it was really nice of him to repair my car at cost & I feel good that the food bank got something out of it and I feel good that he got a letter that he is able to hang on the bulletin board at work
It was his money. He started it. I just kept it moving & the food bank completed the circle.
Davis - so happy that you got the scooter & also the lift chair though sorry about your loss.
Also glad to hear of the cheaper car repair & contribution to the food bank to.
All lovely stories, keep them coming please.
Dawn