I remember what I wanted to blog about the other day.
Have you heard of Freecycle? It is the coolest thing. It’s about keeping things out of the landfills, and paying it forward. I’ve given a bunch of stuff we don’t use anymore away and I’ve received a bunch of stuff that other people have given away, my latest favorites being: my food processor and the tower I got to build Jordan a computer, just needs my old hard drive stuck in it, my old monitor, mouse, and keyboard, and he can play his webkinz on his own darn computer.
Last Saturday, someone posted that they had a 1988 Ford Ranger pick up they were freecycling. I immediatly thought of my brother. He’s trying so hard to get and stay on the right track finally and things just keep hitting him down. His car broke down and cost more to fix it than the car was worth, so he’s been riding his bike to work (in the beginning he was running to work) and it’s quite a ways. He also had to rely on other people to pick up his oldest daughter for visitation. (He lives with his youngest daughter)
Now, the drive shaft joint was broke on the truck, and that meant absolutely NOTHING to me. I called my dad and asked him if it was expensive to fix that. He said, no. But, he also said that I had better talk to my brother before I asked for the truck. Well, do you think he would answer his phone? Or his girlfriend answer hers? No. He was working, so I can’t blame him.
I thought the chances were slim to none that this family would pick us because when a car, boat, trailer, anything like that comes up, they get HUNDREDS of responses. But, I told them that I wanted to throw my brother’s hat in to the mix. He called me! He said that if we could go get it right then that we could have it. But, it had to be quick because it was sitting in the middle of the street.
Now, I was panicking. Like I have the stuff needed to tow a truck. LOL And I still couldn’t get ahold of my brother. So, I called my brother n law to be and told him. He went over and towed the truck to his house. And after looking at it, both of my brother’s and my brother n law to be have said, it’s going to cost about $100 to get everything fixed that needs fixing, they can do it themselves. So, woohoo!
I felt so good about being able to help my brother. It’s not his dream car, but it will get him from point a to point b and hopefully back again. LOL I called the people back who gave it to us and just thanked them profusely. It was so nice!
Ok, a freebie! Here’s some fun summer word art for you to add to your summer LOs! Hope you enjoy it! Make sure you check out the other designers and see what they are offering in the freebie war! They are all under DSO designers in my sidebar to the right.
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