Something I dragged home yesterday

[Natalia Evans]

It all started when I had to run some few errands. I had to go downtown and and drop off my pay stubs at the  social security administration office office and since I was down there anyway, I also went to the bank and then I stopped at the redbox and rented a free DVD then I came home and stopped to look at an ugly house in my neighborhood and on the block was a lot of free stuff someone was giving away and I saw this bench that opens but it needs to be painted. I had to drag it home since it I couldn't carry it far and then I called my boyfriend to come and meet me to help carry it home. I dragged it about four blocks before I saw my boyfriend coming up the sidewalk. Then we carried it another three blocks home and I put it in the spare bedroom.

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For seeing something useful in what others don't want and taking it instead of letting it be trashed

[Calandale]

Picking trash is great. I've only got one piece
of furniture now - a desk I grabbed off the curb.
I think it was a vanity, which lost its mirror. If only
I had a chair, I could use it. 

[Pyraxis]

LOL, I have one piece of furniture, if you could call it that, in my apartment here: the cushions scrounged off somebody's old couch, that I'm using for a bed. It's kind of funny - I'm in this classy upscale complex and living off cardboard boxes and the floor.

[Calandale]

I regret NOT bringing my cushions with me. 

All I have is a 1/4" pad.

[Parts]

LOL, I have one piece of furniture, if you could call it that, in my apartment here: the cushines scrounged off somebody's old couch, that I'm using for a bed. It's kind of funny - I'm in this classy upscale complex and living off cardboard boxes and the floor.

I knew a builder who last time real estate crashed could not afford to sell a million dollar house he built for what the going rate was when his wife kicked him out he moved into it and lived there with just a bed and a TV he didn't even go upstairs for over a year

[Calandale]

We used to live in a place that we had half the rooms sealed off.

[richard]

It all started when I had to run some few errands.

it always starts that way doesnt it

[Callaway]

I like your storage bench, Spokane Girl.

 

[SovaNu]

it's cute. did it belong to a kindergarten?

i would live with as few things as possible if i could. i have all this shit from my past that i can't get rid of.

[ozymandias]

It all started when I had to run some few errands. I had to go downtown and and drop off my pay stubs at the  social security administration office office and since I was down there anyway, I also went to the bank and then I stopped at the redbox and rented a free DVD then I came home and stopped to look at an ugly house in my neighborhood and on the block was a lot of free stuff someone was giving away and I saw this bench that opens but it needs to be painted. I had to drag it home since it I couldn't carry it far and then I called my boyfriend to come and meet me to help carry it home. I dragged it about four blocks before I saw my boyfriend coming up the sidewalk. Then we carried it another three blocks home and I put it in the spare bedroom.

A good find, nothing that a good cleaning, a little sanding and a fresh coat of paint wouldn't make into something neat.

[Sophgay]

I thought this was gonna be a corpse or something

people have took our trash before while we were waiting to get rid of it

[Natalia Evans]

I don't think it belonged to a kindergarten class. It looks like it was hand build and painted and some kids got paint all over it when they were playing with paint. Looks like it was originally painted yellow and blue.

Here in Portland, whatever people don't want, they tend to put it outside in front of their house and put the words Free so people will take it. Sometimes they do that with their things that were left over from a yard sale they had and they post an ad on craigslist about it and then they take it to Goodwill whatever is still left. But unfortunitly it can be left out in the rain when it rains.

This can actually happen anywhere but I have never seen it happen so often till I moved here. Must have to do with us being very environmental. I'm sure all of you Americans know how environmental Oregon is.

[Calandale]

Oops. I thought leaving something on the
porch (or the door not well bolted) meant
free. 

[Phlexor]

Just get into that Freecycle thing. My wife runs the local one where we live. She got me a free N64 with 2 games and 2 controller that was in pretty good condition.