Cleanout: Trash or Treasure?

I have been binge watching one of those cable TV shows where humans buy cheap houses, fix them up, and sell them for a handsome profit. I thought I would try my paws at burrow “flipping.” I bought a burrow that belonged to an elderly couple who have passed on to the great sunflower seed patch in the sky. The kids live in California and wanted to get rid of the burrow cheap. I got the keys and opened the place up. It was like a museum of obsolete technology: VCR tapes, cassette tapes, floppy disks, transistor radio, clothes pins, and protractor & compass. Apparently the old ‘munk was an engineer at Bell Labs way back in the day.

I had a 40 cubic inch dumpster delivered and started cleaning things out. It took me two days to lug this junk out. Boy was I parched by all the effort. I decided to go home and drink the last bottle of Guinness Sunflower Seed beer I had.

When I got back the dumpster in the late afternoon it was completely empty. I only had one beer, I swear, I can’t be drunk. Think a minute, ahhh, lets check the doorbell security camera.

Wow that is Mrs. Sotheby herself, the famous antiques auctioneer from New York.

What does she want with an old transistor radio? Let me look it up in antiques price guide … what??? It is worth 5000 seeds. (If I get lucky I will get a 1000 seeds for the fixed up burrow.)

Oh look, it is Woody the furniture maker. He has got his eye on the compass and protractor.

This chipmunk looks familiar …

This is really embarrassing. It is my teacher Mrs. Spot dumpster diving like a trash can tipping raccoon. She must be after that hard to find Diana Ross cassette tape.

No, it can’t be, yup it is my wife. She is grabbing the clothes pin.

She has been talking about doing more for the planet like using a clothes line rather than the dryer.

Here is the Honorable Mayor of the Woodpile. He must be looking for floppy disks for the antiquated government computer system they have at City hall.

Here comes Bushy, lets turn on the audio and listen, “Word is going around the Woodpile about free antiques. I going to get rich selling them on Critter-Bay.”

“Maybe I will find some gold coins!”

“Its empty, this must be some sort of practical joke. Just wait until I get my paws on Chippy.”