Roadside Junk

[iceman (Mike)]

People are funny sometimes..

My wife and I arranged the "bulk waste collection", you know, when you pile all your junk up on the front lawn and the council come along and take it away.

We piled this all up on tuesday night, around 7:30 or 8pm, due for collection the next day.

But by the time the garbage truck had come, at least half a dozen bits of "stuff" were already collected by passers by

We also had a perfectly fine rabbit cage/hutch that we didn't want to throw away, so we thought we'll put it out after the garbage is collected, and put a sign on it "free, please take".

It was on the lawn for less than 30 minutes and it was gone!

It reminded me of that Simpsons episode, where they couldn't get rid of their trampoline (couldn't give it away).. so in the end they put a chain on it and 5 minutes later it was stolen

[ving (David)]

lol mike
we get that alot around our way. one morning theres a pile of junk, next its been spread around from poeple rummaging thru it.

I have to admit that i was once temped by a pild of someones junk.... it was old computer stuff and i was going to take the printers for the motors... i never got around to it tho

Sounds like a great option for getting rid of a pain in the butt wife. Get here drunk and put her out on the front lawn, why didnt I think of that.

[frogman (Anthony Lord)]

man i have a beer fridge from the front of someones "pile" still works...
thats where the phrase comes from...."one mans junk....."

reading the post, i thought you got yourself a bargain

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

When I was moving back from the Central Coast to Victoria I had a garage sale of eveything! Furniture, gardening tools, etc. Advertised in the paper, put signs up, all the usual.

Hardly anything sold! A couple of vases, a coffee table.

2 days before we moved we stuck the lot out on the roadside (a whole house lot, incl 2 lounge suites, wardrobes, beds, wall units, pot plants, dining setting, kitchen stuff, cutlery, plates, stools, old TV etc etc etc) and within 2 hours it was all gone!!!!

Gotta laugh!

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I had a phone call today from an artist friend who visits dumps to scrounge for metal bits and pieces for his sculptures.
In the last week he has picked up a telescope for $10, a slightly damp MP3 player still in the box for free and a set of star cards that you hold up to the sky and match the the stars with the holes in the cards. The latter will be turned into lamp shades unfortunatly.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Scrounging is good fun!

Jeanette, what is in your Avatar? I can't work it out!

[RAJAH235]

A pussy? L.
ps. Ken, you gotta get Firefox. Has enlarge image etc on your right moose button.

[h0ughy (David)]

Mike I had someone come past as I was putting two rocking chairs out and he offered me $10 each, so I took the money. If he had waited 30 seconds he would have done what happened at your place

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Ken,
It's me little kitty cat.
She's tired after being out all night with me at the telescope.
Jeanette