At 10:30pm Thursday I put a post on Craig's List that someone could pick up our old but working stove for free. We figured that instead of letting the delivery guys take it and sell it for parts we could serve some 'neighbor'* by giving away our stove to someone who needs it (or even if they want to sell it for parts as a small business).
It's now 11:20 and I've exchanged 4 emails with someone who will be picking it up tomorrow.
Love Craig's List! We gave away our old (but working) fridge and stove. I've also found several contracts and my current job on Craig's List.
* I still think neighbor should be spelled neighbour.
Those books I'm reading had a funny quip about changing neighbor to neighbour as a way to give the letter u some more play. Apparently it caught on. :)
I'm pretty sure the u was stripped out of neighbour and still resides there in England and Canada.
Evidently, American English doesn't like U!
Yeah -- we're not big fans of superfluous letters. Although, words like although and enough tend to contradict that.
I know why Americans leave out the U.
It goes back to the scrabble game and the printing press. They need several more U tiles to make it work in Canada, the UK or other British-originating nations. You'd be surprised how many trees this has saved, and it's made Algore very happy.
It was simply a cost cutting measure for the printing industry. Lead type was expensive and the Us were in short supply. But as it turned out, the decreased productions of u has saved the amount of lead going into the landfills now. Almost as much as keeping your tires inflated saves gasoline, which makes Obama happy.