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It will take about 24 days for a 24-year-old business to close. Everything But Ice, 936 Massachusetts St.,has sold its building location. The store carries ‘everything’ from mattresses to toaster ovens to a prosthetic leg.

Sam Pepple has a lot of stuff.

Piles of it, everywhere, in his store, Everything But Ice, 936 Massachusetts St.

Mattresses are stacked to the ceiling, tables and chairs are scattered throughout the basement and the front room has everything from toaster ovens to a prosthetic leg.

And Pepple has 24 days to get rid of it all because he sold the building where his business is located.

“A lovely downtown business bought it,” Pepple said. “We’re the happiest people ever. It’s been a good 24 years. It’s better than a real job.”

He wouldn’t reveal what local business bought the building or how much he sold it for.

Pepple got the offer about 30 days ago and said coming to the decision to sell the building wasn’t a big deal.

Terri Wilson, an employee of 14 years at Everything But Ice — an unclaimed and damaged freight store — got the news that Pepple sold the building Friday.

“At first I got depressed,” Wilson said. “I spent Friday morning moping around but after that I was fine.”

Before working at Everything But Ice, Wilson worked as a bartender and a bouncer.

She was asked to work as a temporary employee but has stuck around, Wilson said.

During the interview process she was asked to multiply 12 times 46 and what the last thing she fixed was.

“I said a margarita,” Wilson said.

But what the interviewers were looking for was if she repaired anything.

“I told them I changed the oil in my truck,” she said.

Pepple plans to reopen Everything But Ice in mid-July but he doesn’t know where.

“It’s the most exciting and terrifying time of my life right now,” he said. “I don’t what I’m going to be doing in 24 days.”

When the store reopens it might be a young adult furniture shop, a scratch and dent casket shop or a damaged sporting goods store.

Josh Collins, Overland Park resident, shopped at Everything But Ice two years ago and bought a couple of tables.

“I had to go in,” Collins said. “It’s just off the wall. They sell one-of-a-kind stuff that can’t be replaced.”

Collins and his wife, Jessica, 2002 graduate, dropped by the shop yesterday after they saw the signs that that said Everything But Ice was leaving. The red-lettered signs covered the windows of the store.

“People say the signs have a lot of attitude,” Wilson said.

Love Garden Sounds/Arts Multiplex, 936 1/2 Massachusetts St., which shares the building with Everything But Ice, will stay even though the building is being sold, Pepple said. It still has time left in its lease.

Pepple expects all of the merchandise to be gone from the store in 24 days.

“We might have trouble selling that leg,” Wilson joked.