Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 29, 2024

I don’t want to be filthy rich. I just want to be rich enough not to look at furniture sitting by the curb………

Like Arlo I also believe in letting the next guy have a chance to use what we no longer have a use for.

It either goes there or the Salvation Army. Someone can use it.

Put a price tag on it so the Thieves get a bargain

Neighborhood scavenging?

Curb side trash to treasure magic.

I furnished my first apartment that way!

Better the curb, than in a filthy dumpster. (Do people still dumpster-dive? Ugh!)

Funny funny! A lot of people have learned to do this so they don’t have to throw out everything they don’t want. Just set it by the curb and it’ll disappear before you know it.

are they moving or not?

It’s really easy in a college town.

Living in the country we have trash pick up or you can choose, like I do, to bring your trash to the local collection site. The site has a 45’ trailer body (no wheels) where you can leave unwanted and useful items for others who might want them. It’s a great recycling system and I’ve left and taken things over the years. Some pretty good finds too. And since the collection site is next to the local airport, the sign on the trailer says “Airport Mall”.

We had a leather sofa that started to mildew. We (thought) successfully cleaned and dried it up. However, it came back and decided we needed to get rid of it. No, not sell it; I couldn’t do that to someone. We called the trash company and arranged to have it picked up. The night before the pickup I hauled it off to the curbside and before I could get back into the house someone had stopped and picked it up. I’m sorry for them but they now had to deal with it.

I put out a lot of Christmas decorations one year and got a thank you note in my mailbox. That was keeping with the season.

It it’s wood, it’s good.

I’ve noticed this phenomenon lately. You put something out for the trash the next day, but it’s gone in a couple hours. When did this start? Somebody took a bag of leaves I raked up last fall.

There’s the classic story about the NYC garbage strike. Some people simply bagged their garbage attractively and sure enough it disappeared.

This is why exists (as well as other sites and Facebook pages).

Someone put out an old-style laser video player by the sidewalk. This was during the pandemic when garage sales were not allowed. I saw it on a walk and was thinking of driving back to get it, but by the time I got home I realized I probably wouldn’t use it very much, and it should go to a better home.

Take my stuff…PLEASE!

I think he is sleep walking…………

I have picked up nice stuff from the curb…and rehab dumpsters…University of Madison moving out week is a bonanza!

I may have a bookcase to put out by the curb soon!

Yeah, but it’s depressing when your stuff is still sitting there a week later. Your crap is so crappy nobody else wants it either.

Hell ya this is trending……I have picked up some good stuff on the curb.

Anything upholstered left by the curb could have bugs or other residents.

Now I wonder where they live that setting furniture by the curb is acceptable.

There’s some law of nature that whenever you leave an old lawn mower next to the road with a free sign on it, some old guy in a pickup truck will stop for it and load it up.

I can hardly believe all the things I’ve seen sitting out by the curb. There really should be an organization to do something about it — take advantage of it, keep stuff from just going into landfills, sometimes including toxic waste if the waste management service isn’t strict about it — some of the stuff might be used by poor people, some might be sold a la Goodwill or Salvation Army, or be used by Habitat for Humanity, some could be used in Maker Spaces or schools for shop classes, science experiments, art…

Put a sign on it that says five dollars and it wqill be gone in a flash.

This works well in our neighborhood, too, and I love it!

We do that here in coastal GA. Wanna get rid of something without paying the $25 fee at the dump just put it out by the road.