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Jul 05, 2008 02:33

maradydd has found her fainting couch.

I think I need to make a GraphJam-style chart of the acceptability of scavenging things from the curbside, with item to be scavenged crossed with one's income. But for lj-land, here is a list of the rules:

Social Acceptability of Scavenging1.Food is only acceptable to scavenge if you are homeless. In fact, it is ( Read more... )

random observations

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Guilty as charged. lyonessnyc July 5 2008, 09:34:32 UTC

My apartment is almost entirely furnished by scavenged and second-hand furniture. My lovely carved Victorian couch was left out on a trash day that happened to be an alternate-side-parking day. Any other day, I might never have seen it -- I had to move the car, and found it ( ... )

Re: Guilty as charged. barbarienne July 5 2008, 18:41:24 UTC

I, too, have a houseful of furniture I didn't pay for. Most of it is grandmotherly inheritance these days, but I've had two recliners in the past that came from (1) the curb, and (2) the previous tenant. My current recliner was my dad's.

Hmmm. This is a mark of my improved income, that I no long have curbside- scavenged furniture. Between grandmother inheritance and parental hand-me-downs, I still have relatively little that I've paid for: bookshelves I custom-built myself, a small table from a trip to India, and carpets that I was required by my new apartment to have (and actually adore, and will keep for decades). A couple of lamps and a kitchen thing ( ... )

Re: Guilty as charged. lyonessnyc July 5 2008, 21:54:33 UTC

Mostly paperbacks, trade and mass-market. There were a few hardcovers, and some YA. I found a hardcover YA by suricattus, which amused me ( ... )

hkneale July 7 2008, 14:58:08 UTC

Once a year Western Australia has a "pick-up day" (it varies from neighborhood to neighborhood) where you can put out all your old unwanted stuff and the Council will come by for free, pick it up, and haul it away.

People put out stuff weeks in advance and it is expected for people to come along (sometimes with flatbed trucks) and haul away the stuff they want before the official "disposal".

It's downright patriotic to haul away someone else's trash for you to treasure.

I've gleaned some really useful things that way.