Advice: Don't be like me...

The real problem with Pueblo is the drugs and their importation from south of the US border. The drugs ruin it for everybody. I mean the fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, etc.

Why? Because we are closer to the border.

You don't see it as much per capita in the Metro area. It is diluted. If we could stop all the drugs sold in Pueblo, there would be just be more drugs available in COS and the Metro. Rehab is big business too! They have public funded taxis to get the addicts to the methadone clinics.

So you lock up Chapo and his son. The void is quickly filled with fresh leadership. Drug overdoses and collateral damage kill far more people than guns. But you never see folks protesting the illegal narcotic problem. Never.

https://www.kktv.com/2023/10/23/sear...e-bust-pueblo/

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Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy

The real problem with Pueblo is the drugs and their importation from south of the US border. The drugs ruin it for everybody. I mean the fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, etc.

Why? Because we are closer to the border.

You don't see it as much per capita in the Metro area. It is diluted. If we could stop all the drugs sold in Pueblo, there would be just be more drugs available in COS and the Metro. Rehab is big business too! They have public funded taxis to get the addicts to the methadone clinics.

So you lock up Chapo and his son. The void is quickly filled with fresh leadership. Drug overdoses and collateral damage kill far more people than guns. But you never see folks protesting the illegal narcotic problem. Never.

https://www.kktv.com/2023/10/23/sear...e-bust-pueblo/

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This.....

We (I) have been trying to destuff for a while now. Good advice. The wife is much more reluctant. Her books could literally fill a few rooms.

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Originally Posted by MarkCO

We (I) have been trying to destuff for a while now. Good advice. The wife is much more reluctant. Her books could literally fill a few rooms.

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Ugh, Books are the worst. I know, I was a book hoarder for a long time. At one time I probably had 8 - 10 bookcases full of books. But after moving boxes of books from house to house I finally said "Why am I doing this?" I then separated my books into those (very few) that have some special sentimental value to me (keep), those that I use and would be almost impossible to find in a library (keep) and those that, if I wanted to, I could get in a library or bookstore (get rid of) which is by far most of them.

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

we started selling and giving away stuff about 3-4 months before we were moving. Even now 5 yrs later there's still unopened boxes in one of the outbuildings.

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To be fair, Kazoo...you had a LOT of stuff!

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

Rule of thumb: If you didn't touch it in a year, sell it, donate it or toss it. This works very well for me. My wife...not so much. (Of course this does not apply to firearms.)

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Ah, yes! The "firearm" exemption!

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Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy

The real problem with Pueblo is the drugs and their importation from south of the US border. The drugs ruin it for everybody. I mean the fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, etc.

Why? Because we are closer to the border.

You don't see it as much per capita in the Metro area. It is diluted. If we could stop all the drugs sold in Pueblo, there would be just be more drugs available in COS and the Metro. Rehab is big business too! They have public funded taxis to get the addicts to the methadone clinics.

So you lock up Chapo and his son. The void is quickly filled with fresh leadership. Drug overdoses and collateral damage kill far more people than guns. But you never see folks protesting the illegal narcotic problem. Never.

https://www.kktv.com/2023/10/23/sear...e-bust-pueblo/

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You will not see as much reporting in the denver area. AS the media and politicians don't want to admit there is a problem. Not sure how long anyone has lived in CO, if it's been a while. You should remember when Webb and the denver police chief said, Denver Doesn't have a Gang Problem. Which were the headlines in both the RMN and DP. Nope, nothing here to see.


Buy ignoring it the problem goes away, as one can witness by no more gang problems, or homeless, assaults on the 16th st mall, zero, zip, nada. :)

Talking about books - my stepson's mother-in-law collects cookbooks. We've been to their house, the garage is FULL of boxes of cookbooks!

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Originally Posted by rondog

Talking about books - my stepson's mother-in-law collects cookbooks. We've been to their house, the garage is FULL of boxes of cookbooks!

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Seems sort of pointless to not use them!

I'm guilty: I have stuff that literally was packed up in 1989 when I moved from Savannah to Colorado Springs that has been moved 3 times since without being unpacked. "But I might need it some day!!!"...as if I have needed most of i9t at any time in the last 35 years...[ROFL2]