I recently rediscovered my local library. About a third of my Amazon wish list is available there. Especially good considering I have no money with which to buy books.

Something some of you might find useful: SwapTreeBasically, you trade media...books, movies, games, etc. Everything's a one-for-one trade. You do have to pay shipping, which sucks, but in the long run it's probably cheaper to ship out five books and get five new books and pay ten bucks shipping than take five books and ten bucks to Half-Price and ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/design/20pool.html?_r=1

I thought you vultures would appreciate this!

My boyfriend, best friend, and I have been on a dumpster diving spree as of late. We've mostly been finding clothing and household accessories such as decorations and pots and pans ( Read more... )

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This post is partially because I want to gloat about scoring a like-new carrier for the cats on Craigslist...free. Although the cats are convinced it's really a kitty clubhouse. It's apparently really fun to slap other people through the holes in the door ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went dumpstering at AC Moore and found an entire box filled with random craft stuff. Score on that! While Food Lion and Weis both had nothing but rotten fruit and various other disappointments, I made my way over to Goodwill and found that the dumpsters were filled with perfectly good items (as usual ( Read more... )

A post about the cool stuff a blogger found dumpster diving. I really like the coffee table and the antique crate.

i just received a random assortment of fur pieces, dyed and natural, tails, and feathers from a friend of mine.  he used to make fishing lures with all this stuff, but over time he forgot about it and just wanted to get rid of it :-p  i figured some people on here might be interested in making lures, or would be able to use some of these things for ( Read more... )