Freecycle? NO way.........

[RICHARD]

Today I was feeling the urge to move stuff.

I had two chairs, two end tables, a phone table and coffee table.

I was looking thru the web for places that would pick them up.

I decided that I'd try to put them out on the curb with a FREE sign on them.

I put the chairs and phone table out first.

The chairs went in 5 minutes, a woman up the street took the rest.

Total curb time? 20 minutes.


LOL, I even had a couple come and look at the end tables and the split. when they came back, I had already given the other stuff away!


LOL, Take that Internet!!!

[Freedom]

I put stuff at the curb, posted it on freecycle, and on craigslist under the free section.

Either way, it seems to MOVE!

[Karen]

There's a pretty large, ugly vase, complete with sticks that are supposed to be artistic, that's been on our neighbor's curb for a couple days now. Our street doesn't get that much traffic, so I wonder how long it will sit!

Freecycle is great for stuff you don't want to leave out in the elements (yes, Richard, I know you don't get as much "weather" as us) or that most people might not be interested in. I could not believe how many responses I got for a busted cheap lawn mower ... people were competing for it!

[RICHARD]

There's a pretty large, ugly vase, complete with sticks that are supposed to be artistic, that's been on our neighbor's curb for a couple days now. Our street doesn't get that much traffic, so I wonder how long it will sit!

I was prepared to lug it all back in in the afternoon, I never thought it would go THAT fast.

The house is kinda on a main drag, but I never expected it would be gone in minutes. pretty amazing!

[moosmom]

It's amazing how quickly stuff goes when it's left by the curb. Blows me away!

[kokopup]

Reminds me of my old Navy days when we were doing compartment cleaning. We had a hug steel desk that we had to get rid of. The problem, we were on the 07 level of an Aircraft carrier and it would have to be disassembled before we could move it down to the hanger deck. Since it was to big to go through the small hatches that separated the passageways, we put it outside in the passageway thinking we would do the desk break down tomorrow. Procastination was something we did real well. Next morning, it appears, someone had been real busy during the night because the desk was gone.

Comparing our passageway to streets, you could say we were way off the beaten track.

[cassiesmom]

It's amazing how quickly stuff goes when it's left by the curb. Blows me away!

My sister's (upper middle class) neighborhood is like that too! Folks cruise the streets on Sunday nights because people put their trash on the curb for Monday collection day.

We have a spot in my building, it's a little table in the lobby, where you can place things you would like to give away. We also place magazines there after we've read them, because one of my neighbors takes them to the V.A. when we are done with them.

When my grandmother passed away and we needed to clear out her whole house, my mom found an organization that came and picked up her dining table and chairs, some pots and pans and a set of dishes. They set up apartments for refugee families and we thought that was a great place for my grandmother's stuff to go.

Today I was feeling the urge to move stuff.

Could you please forward the urge to me? I have a LOT of stuff that needs moved o-u-t.