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title: "Toy Crate"
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date: 2023-06-03T00:08:58-07:00
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## Next Steps
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- None!
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## Completed Steps
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- buy materials (only $30 roughly!)
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- buy tools (lots more lol)
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- cut to size (thanks, cuñado)
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- plane and sand
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- Apply more coats of verathane
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- Assemble- predrill and screw
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- Affix placard
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- Fill with toys
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- Place at destination (might require shovel work)
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## Backstory:
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So, the plan with this one is to create a "take a penny, leave a penny" type bin for toys at the beach near me. It's been a great learning experience in woodworking and I even got to justify the purchase of more power tools!
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The idea came to me on the near-daily walks with Zoey on the beach. There are so many plastic toys getting left on the beach, and I felt they could be reused. Since the City of San Diego is too gigantic to deal with such an issue, I reached out to the Pacific Beach Town Council, but heard nothing back. I plan to plop it down anyway, and see what happens.
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My wife and I have been gathering abandoned toys on our morning walks for awhile now, so it should have a pretty good start.
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## Finished!
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The box came out more lopsided than imagined, but it works great! It's been about a month and there have been multiple full cycles of toys. I'm thrilled that the community has been accepting of it, and that it hasn't been removed.
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## And Death
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We ended up moving further away and went to the beach less, and the check-ins got to be more depressing, typically mostly trash and it was used more as a lost and found for kids socks. I kept putting toys in, but they would dissapear too quickly. I noticed there were usually toys I didn't add, but none would last more than a week.
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One day I cam back, it was in its place but it looks like people tried to use it for their fire, but it must have burnt abysmally with all the waterproofing I did.
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It was in an unsafe state, so I came by later and took it away. It was a fun experiment, but ultimately the sucky people beat out the good ones. I have no plans to make a new one here.
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