{"id":4573,"date":"2006-05-17T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T23:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:12:54","slug":"who_says_im_use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"Who says I&#8217;m useless around the house?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I am pretty useless. <\/p>\n<p>However this morning I managed to get the old refrigerator that was in the garage out to the curb (and take the doors off!!) in fifteen minutes. And I did it all myself. Or 98% myself. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my brother Jim&#8217;s car in the background &#8211; he&#8217;s in Bolivia on business right now. The green garbage can is ours! Note the hair.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/fridge_hauled_off_51706_004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fridge_hauled_off_51706_004\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Fridge_hauled_off_51706_004\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/images\/fridge_hauled_off_51706_004.jpg\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The refrigerator was here when we bought the house twenty years ago. The Kelliher man told us it was at least 35 years old and no longer showed on his &quot;charts.&quot; I guess they don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like they used to. Two years ago it moved to the garage as our storage fridge, and died about a month ago. <\/p>\n<p>Going, going, gone.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/fridge_hauled_off_51706_008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fridge_hauled_off_51706_008\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Fridge_hauled_off_51706_008\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/images\/fridge_hauled_off_51706_008.jpg\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;ve made such a big deal of disposing of a refrigerator!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I am pretty useless. However this morning I managed to get the old refrigerator that was in the garage out to the curb (and take the doors off!!) in fifteen minutes. And I did it all myself. Or 98% myself. That&#8217;s my brother Jim&#8217;s car in the background &#8211; he&#8217;s in Bolivia on business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9713,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}