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Dumpster Diving!
Jawshooah:
Ah. Kind of ironic, given the title of the forum.
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: Misconception on 02 Feb 2009, 18:55 ---May 1st is practically a holiday in Fargo. For the college kids, at least. On that day you can put anything on the curb and have it hauled away to take to the dump, so people put out old furniture, TVs, anything they don't want. I have known people to furnish their houses with this stuff. I cannot wait to go out on the first this year to get my own furniture!
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That's similar to Allston Christmas up here. With a lot of colleges in the area, the Allston neighborhood of Boston ends up with an extremely high concentration of rich little shits with little regard for the value of a dollar. Subsequently, every September the first, or move-out weekend for all the college kids whose leases just ran out, is known as Allston Christmas. All the rich kids just leave the shit they don't want to go to the trouble of selling off or keeping when they move on the curb. All the hipsters and penny-pinchers thus descend on the area to scoop up neat stuff that's generally in perfectly workable condition. I furnished most of my apartment through crap idiot college grads have left out on the sidewalk.
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Dude.. did you name your kid after a QC character? Or is it just coincidence?
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That would be pretty stupid and I am personally certain that pen is not stupid. Faye is a rather common name.
Darkbluerabbit:
I have found some very nice clothing by checking the trash at laundromats before doing my laundry. I assume people forget things and the management just tosses them, or people are sorting their laundry and chuck things they don't like anymore. If I find anything good, I just stick it in with my own wash, and then I have new clean clothes.
Liz:
Oh man. I need to start going to a real laundromat. I just use the one in my apartment for the convenience, but nothing gets thrown away there. Now I guess I have to start going to that Maytag place up on University...
pwhodges:
The DVD player under my telly came off a skip in the next road, where an old man's house was being cleared last year; I also took a few books, but passed on the crappy audio stuff.
In 1992 I found a working laser printer in a skip, which I used for several years.
When I bought my first house in 1969, I bought the "contents, without inventory" for £20. In the bottom of the old piano (beyond restoration) was a strongbox with some worthless share certificates and £100 in cash (I suppose about $2500 in current value).
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