Comments on: “Stealing” People’s Trash http://midnightferret.com/2006/06/13/stealing-peoples-trash/ .: Don't go in the water! :. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:40:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: margaret http://midnightferret.com/2006/06/13/stealing-peoples-trash/comment-page-1/#comment-3 margaret Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:47:54 +0000 http://midnightferret.com/2006/06/13/stealing-peoples-trash/#comment-3 I'm with you. If I put it on the curb, it means I don't want it. So if someone else wants to save it from the landfill, go right ahead. Which is also why I <a> when I can. And I've benefited from trash grubbing myself. Our neighbors threw out this neat looking old chair last year, so I grabbed it, and posted a pic on a vintage furniture livejournal community, and whaddya know, it's by some hotshot Danish designer from the 60s and worth about $500 if I get it recaned. But I'm not going to sell it because I like it. I still pine over the find that never was. One day I was walking to school and I saw an old console record player on the curb. It was beautiful - ebony and in near pristine condition. So I called my hubby to come get it, because I was on the way to my class with the jackass professor who locked out latecomers. He said he saw it being muched in the garbage truck as he drove up. I so should have stayed to guard it... I’m with you. If I put it on the curb, it means I don’t want it. So if someone else wants to save it from the landfill, go right ahead. Which is also why I when I can.

And I’ve benefited from trash grubbing myself. Our neighbors threw out this neat looking old chair last year, so I grabbed it, and posted a pic on a vintage furniture livejournal community, and whaddya know, it’s by some hotshot Danish designer from the 60s and worth about $500 if I get it recaned. But I’m not going to sell it because I like it.

I still pine over the find that never was. One day I was walking to school and I saw an old console record player on the curb. It was beautiful – ebony and in near pristine condition. So I called my hubby to come get it, because I was on the way to my class with the jackass professor who locked out latecomers. He said he saw it being muched in the garbage truck as he drove up. I so should have stayed to guard it…

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