An addendum to my last post.

[apocalypsos]

Yes, I know about Goodwill. And Freecycle. And selling the furniture. And large trash pick-up-days (which wouldn't work out so well for me considering I live on Main Street and there's maybe six feet between my front door and the curb).

Here's the problem with all of those suggestions. I asked THEM to do it.

Right now, it's the principle of the thing. I would LOVE to call Goodwill and have them take it away. I would LOVE to put them up on Freecycle and have someone else come and take them away. Hell, right now I would LOVE to cart the damn things down into the middle of Main Street and set them on fire.

But they said THEY would do it and now they're going to come and take this stuff out of my apartment if I have to throw a childish tantrum to get them to do it.

I'm not bitching at you guys, seriously. Right now I'm just so pissed off I'm really tempted to do something bitchy, like load up each of the chairs into my car and taking them up to the house one at the time, where I would leave each of them in the middle of the living room, my parent's bedroom, my brother's bedroom, and maybe right in front of the front door just to see if they get the fucking message.

Comments

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I get it, it's partly the principle of the thing, and partly a protest of the way they think of you/see you. They're not respecting your wishes, they don't seem to have any respect for you. You don't just want to get rid of the furniture, in fact that's the easy part: you want to change the way they see you and treat you. Not hard to understand at all!

Good luck and don't blow a blood vessel!

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Wince. Oh, that one. Yes, in that case I suggest taking everything back and leaving it on the front lawn.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured that this was what was really ticking you off. Your description of how your mom was kinda deliberately refusing to understand that you don't WANT duplicates triggered some memories. :-/

Good luck, TP.

[fyrdrakken]

Yeah, I get the principle of the thing regarding you having to deal with something they said they'd handle for you -- and further the principle of your mother deciding she knows how your apartment should be furnished better than you do and not caring how you feel about the matter. Mostly I just think in terms of how best to administer negative reinforcement to the guilty parties so as to prevent the problem from recurring in the future.