{"id":9275,"date":"2011-04-13T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9275"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:24","slug":"day-149-moldy-pillows-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9275","title":{"rendered":"Day 149 &#8211; Moldy Pillows (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhWqpONO01sivWzBbMCjW1KG4HgYfWAiRr3l7YJ4OGVzAt72aMzeZC3qqGqb7v1HusoSfr62_P4NpG_wwbz1wpkwU7mTv38gph7w25ZBTyGSMLN_Au_J1G5tUFmtmI35tn4w4GQRDyq1eE\/s200\/Picture+123.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stopped by the mechanic&#8217;s place last night and said my final farewells to THAT CAR.\u00a0 I had to clean out some stuff before I have it towed away somewhere.\u00a0 I am hoping to get a couple hundred dollars out of it when I do &#8211; and maybe when I add\u00a0that to\u00a0the tax refund, I&#8217;ll be able to afford something that will last at least a year or two without any major repair costs.\u00a0 It makes me nervous to commit &#8211; especially since the last time I did not choose wisely.\u00a0 (What was I thinking when I bought an older model foreign car?\u00a0 Prices for parts and labor on that thing were outrageous!) My clean-out included the trunk &#8211; where I did not tend to venture too often.\u00a0 There I found a couple of old throw pillows that had been moved into the car a couple of years ago when the power seats quit moving.\u00a0 Melissa found it nearly impossible to drive the thing with the driver&#8217;s seat all the way back, stuck in the position that I prefered for my 6&#8217;3&#8243; frame.\u00a0 She&#8217;d stuff these pillows (that came as freebies with the sectional we bought for the basement and she never liked anyway) behind her back and still have to stretch to reach the gas and brake.\u00a0 She tried that a few times and then gave up, refusing to ever drive that car again. I found the pillows in the trunk all moldy and unusable &#8211; the trunk was ONE of the places where the rain water tended to collect &#8211; so I decided to Throw them instead of spending the time and energy to clean them up and\u00a0truck them to Goodwill.\u00a0  Like I said &#8211; they&#8217;d been in the trunk a couple of years.\u00a0 Rather gross.\u00a0  Even Goodwill has standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by the mechanic&#8217;s place last night and said my final farewells to THAT CAR.\u00a0 I had to clean out some stuff before I have it towed away somewhere.\u00a0 I am hoping to get a couple hundred dollars out of it when I do &#8211; and maybe when I add\u00a0that to\u00a0the tax refund, I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}