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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2008, 10:43:18 PM »
We used to dive this really cool dumpster in front of a wooden play equipment company.  We got a lot of redwood and nuts and bolts, a ladder and other cool things too.

We built a play fort for our daughter mostly from the scraps we rescued from the dumpster.

They stopped throwing away good stuff like that, though.

See, that annoys me... I think they should make that sort of thing more accessible...  We got yelled at for diving in Home Despot's dumpster. 

The other thing that annoys me is when they tear down houses... There's all kinds of usable things in there that could be donated, or at least used by someone.  Extreme Makeover: Home edition always pisses me off because of that.
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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2008, 10:49:14 PM »
You are right.  We dumpster dived at night, so we never were yelled at.

We broke the windshield on my car once loading a very long 4x6 redwood board, so that one wasn't really free, although it was a really good piece of wood.

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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2008, 10:54:07 PM »
You are right.  We dumpster dived at night, so we never were yelled at.

We broke the windshield on my car once loading a very long 4x6 redwood board, so that one wasn't really free, although it was a really good piece of wood.

 :laugh:

Oh.. that sounds like a good piece of wood.  :)

You're having good post counts tonight, first:  13331, now 13333 which isn't particularly interesting, but cute.  :)
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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2008, 11:01:18 PM »
You are right.  We dumpster dived at night, so we never were yelled at.

We broke the windshield on my car once loading a very long 4x6 redwood board, so that one wasn't really free, although it was a really good piece of wood.

 :laugh:

Oh.. that sounds like a good piece of wood.  :)

You're having good post counts tonight, first:  13331, now 13333 which isn't particularly interesting, but cute.  :)

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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2008, 11:05:48 PM »
You are right.  We dumpster dived at night, so we never were yelled at.

We broke the windshield on my car once loading a very long 4x6 redwood board, so that one wasn't really free, although it was a really good piece of wood.

 :laugh:

Oh.. that sounds like a good piece of wood.  :)

You're having good post counts tonight, first:  13331, now 13333 which isn't particularly interesting, but cute.  :)

Two more posts and I will be in the group that Milla made:  "Teh Holy Triple E Leeet Posessor."


Sweet.  :)  I must have missed hitting 1337
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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2008, 11:10:47 PM »
OK, this is my 13337th post, so I should be in the group now.

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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #21 on: April 24, 2008, 11:12:08 PM »
Yay.  :)  I was waiting for it. 

Now I'm off to bed, again.

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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2008, 12:00:29 AM »
OK, this is my 13337th post, so I should be in the group now.
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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2008, 12:32:04 PM »
We used to dive this really cool dumpster in front of a wooden play equipment company.  We got a lot of redwood and nuts and bolts, a ladder and other cool things too.

We built a play fort for our daughter mostly from the scraps we rescued from the dumpster.

They stopped throwing away good stuff like that, though.

Wouldn't mind coming across something like that myself. :green:

I weeded out most of my vacuums, always a good selection of those. Found a nice Oreck last year that just needed the cord repaired, haven't run across a Dyson yet though, still have hope.



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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #24 on: April 25, 2008, 12:41:28 PM »
We used to dive this really cool dumpster in front of a wooden play equipment company.  We got a lot of redwood and nuts and bolts, a ladder and other cool things too.

We built a play fort for our daughter mostly from the scraps we rescued from the dumpster.

They stopped throwing away good stuff like that, though.

Wouldn't mind coming across something like that myself. :green:

I weeded out most of my vacuums, always a good selection of those. Found a nice Oreck last year that just needed the cord repaired, haven't run across a Dyson yet though, still have hope.




We only had to buy some redwood 4x4 posts, some extra boards that were in direct contact with the ground, some nails, and a slide and we also bought some premade 3 foot by 3 foot cedar panels for the side walls of her fort.  We used the ladder we found in the dumpster.

The fort is shaped like a hexagon, so it makes use of some of the shorter pieces of wood for the decking, and we originally planned to hang a tire swing from the middle, but it was not really strong enough, so we never did.  My husband built us an octagonal picnic table out of the scraps of redwood left over from building the play fort.

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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #25 on: April 25, 2008, 12:43:07 PM »

I weeded out most of my vacuums, always a good selection of those. Found a nice Oreck last year that just needed the cord repaired, haven't run across a Dyson yet though, still have hope.


Is a Dyson really that much better than an Oreck?

I just have a Hoover, whose motto used to be, "Hoover really sucks."

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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2008, 08:44:35 PM »

I weeded out most of my vacuums, always a good selection of those. Found a nice Oreck last year that just needed the cord repaired, haven't run across a Dyson yet though, still have hope.


Is a Dyson really that much better than an Oreck?

I just have a Hoover, whose motto used to be, "Hoover really sucks."
My aunt has three Dysons... one for upstairs, one for downstairs, and one for the guest house. 

One came up for free on Craigslist the other day, and I totally missed out on it.  I'm still using my Hoover that I bought back in '98.  It's developed an annoying problem of shutting off spontaneously now though.
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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #27 on: April 25, 2008, 09:35:43 PM »

I weeded out most of my vacuums, always a good selection of those. Found a nice Oreck last year that just needed the cord repaired, haven't run across a Dyson yet though, still have hope.


Is a Dyson really that much better than an Oreck?

I just have a Hoover, whose motto used to be, "Hoover really sucks."

Not sure, everyone that has one seems to really love it though. Oreck is over-rated IMO, they really don't clean any better but you can't beat the fact that you can pick it up with one hand and carry it upstairs like it was nothing.  I have one of the more expensive Hoover Windtunnel models (curbside too) that will honestly suck up just about anything my son throws at it, it's huge though and weighs a ton.

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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2008, 12:14:22 AM »
My Hoover is even older than Tesla's; I think we bought it from Sears in '92.  It's a cannister type, but it has a beater brush for carpet.  I had to rebuild the beater brush one time a few years ago, but other than that it's still working fine.

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Re: Curbside shopping, anyone else?
« Reply #29 on: April 26, 2008, 02:01:58 AM »
My Hoover is even older than Tesla's; I think we bought it from Sears in '92.  It's a cannister type, but it has a beater brush for carpet.  I had to rebuild the beater brush one time a few years ago, but other than that it's still working fine.

 :plus: for rebuilding. The world needs more of that.