Garbage Day ...

[MsLaura529]

I love garbage days around here lately. In the past 2 weeks, we've picked up a perectly working condition bike for my daughter, a Fisher Price laugh&learn crawl-thru house (the front door one), and today I just found a fisher price kitchen that I will be adding to our outdoor play toys All for a total price of absolutely nothing! (Except for maybe the cost of the cleaning supplies that I might do a bit of overkill on the items with haha).

[Cradle2crayons]

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I love garbage days around here lately. In the past 2 weeks, we've picked up a perectly working condition bike for my daughter, a Fisher Price laugh&learn crawl-thru house (the front door one), and today I just found a fisher price kitchen that I will be adding to our outdoor play toys All for a total price of absolutely nothing! (Except for maybe the cost of the cleaning supplies that I might do a bit of overkill on the items with haha).

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[EntropyControlSpecialist]

That is fantastic!!! I love good finds! happyface

About a month ago, I think, I found three bookshelves behind a neighbor's house who was moving. I put all three in my garage and now my daycare toys are organized OUT of my upcoming baby's room. I also found two large buckets full of little sand buckets, about 13 sand toys, and 13 shovels. They are fantastic for park time. Hooray for free!!!

[littlemissmuffet]

You know what they say - one person's trash is another person's treasure!

I am a total thirft store addict and I have also been known to drag goodies home from local dumpsters!

[countrymom]

and here I thought i was the only garbage watcher and diver.

[MsLaura529]

and here I thought i was the only garbage watcher and diver.

Haha, I never was before, until I started wanting more things for the daycare. Now I have almost become obsessed as I'm driving, and keeping my eyes open for anyhting colorful that may pop up on the end of someone's driveway.

One of the items I picked up had a tag on it still ike it had been in a garage sale or mom2mom sale prior and they couldn't sell it.

[EchoMom]

Haha, then you all would wish you lived near to me! I'm a chronic thrower-outer! :: I have put SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many things out on the curb for people to take, and 99% of the time it DOES get taken before the bulk truck arrives.

[MsLaura529]

Haha, then you all would wish you lived near to me! I'm a chronic thrower-outer! :: I have put SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many things out on the curb for people to take, and 99% of the time it DOES get taken before the bulk truck arrives.

Haha, I'm going to come find your driveway and camp out there

I get so excited when something that we have thrown out has been taken. And then I feel kind of bad because a lot of the times, what we have thrown out has been broken in some way ... but an obvious way so they had to have seen that it was broken and thought they could fix it. We did just throw out one of our old Christmas decorations, a tall, light-up snowman. His carrot nose was snapped in half anf half of his lights didn't work. I guess we'll see who picked it up this yar around Christmas time when we see a half-lighted, no nosed snowman on our neighbor's lawn, haha.

[canadiancare]

I had my grampa living with me for a while. He had dementia but he loved garbage day. I'd put the kids in the stroller and he'd pull the wagon "shopping" for stuff.


Now the kids just love to watch the trucks.

I always make sure to write "not safe" if I throw away toys that are really broken. I'd hate for a kid to get hurt on something that someone else picks up off me. I had one of those formed plastic tables and the seat wouldn't stay up properly. It looked fine but it wasn't safe.

[Laurel]

Haha, then you all would wish you lived near to me! I'm a chronic thrower-outer! :: I have put SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many things out on the curb for people to take, and 99% of the time it DOES get taken before the bulk truck arrives.

We did a complete remodel of our bathroom. I love it when people take stuff they need but I was pretty shocked when they took a bathtub (it was one of the old heavy ones too). I guess they sell it for scrap metal maybe :confused: They didn't take the toilet though. Nobody took it. ::

Laurel

[Laurel]

I had my grampa living with me for a while. He had dementia but he loved garbage day. I'd put the kids in the stroller and he'd pull the wagon "shopping" for stuff.


Now the kids just love to watch the trucks.

I always make sure to write "not safe" if I throw away toys that are really broken. I'd hate for a kid to get hurt on something that someone else picks up off me. I had one of those formed plastic tables and the seat wouldn't stay up properly. It looked fine but it wasn't safe.

That's a good idea to write not safe on it. Once I threw out what looked like a perfectly good work bench type thing from our garage because we found it had termites. My husband had gotten it at his work that was closing.

Laurel

[Laurel]

Haha, I'm going to come find your driveway and camp out there

I get so excited when something that we have thrown out has been taken. And then I feel kind of bad because a lot of the times, what we have thrown out has been broken in some way ... but an obvious way so they had to have seen that it was broken and thought they could fix it. We did just throw out one of our old Christmas decorations, a tall, light-up snowman. His carrot nose was snapped in half anf half of his lights didn't work. I guess we'll see who picked it up this yar around Christmas time when we see a half-lighted, no nosed snowman on our neighbor's lawn, haha.

When we first moved into our house, I threw out a lot of things like curtains that didn't fit the new windows and lots of miscellaneous. About a month later I was at a garage sale in our neighborhood and found all that stuff for sale! It was kinda funny. First I remember saying "Wow, I had some kitchen curtains just like these. Then a decorative butterfly thing and then it finally dawned on me." ::

Laurel

[Blackcat31]

Haha, I'm going to come find your driveway and camp out there

I get so excited when something that we have thrown out has been taken. And then I feel kind of bad because a lot of the times, what we have thrown out has been broken in some way ... but an obvious way so they had to have seen that it was broken and thought they could fix it. We did just throw out one of our old Christmas decorations, a tall, light-up snowman. His carrot nose was snapped in half anf half of his lights didn't work. I guess we'll see who picked it up this yar around Christmas time when we see a half-lighted, no nosed snowman on our neighbor's lawn, haha.

Well, if you feel like road tripping, there is only Wisconsin between us and right now at the curb with a giant FREE sign is

• a Little Tikes Cozy Coup car,
• a child's small bicycle with training wheels,
• a Little Tikes kitchen center (with accessories),
• 2 Radio Flyer 3 wheeled scooters,
• 2 pink chairs and the matching vanity,
• a box of misc toys (mostly baby toys),
• an excersaucer,
• a Step 2 plastic baby stroller
• and a storage shelf you can use those fabric cube bins in.
  
• .....oh! and a Cross trainer machine (like a bow-flex)

I used to be a "collector" but have started becoming a "giver" (minimalist) as I age.

It is much easier that way.

[SilverSabre25]

I am amazed what what gets taken off our curb. I threw out a broken wicker hamper a few weeks ago and it disappeared. Then it reappeared a week later ::::::

There's a perfectly good red turtle sandbox out on my curb now...I wish someone would take it.

eta: Thanks to this thread i FINALLY remembered/bothered to go post the sandbox on freecycle. I have a bunch of other stuff that I need to schedule a bulk pick up for, though. I should do that...

[countrymom]

guess what dh brought home yesterday. I was a heavy duty hose reel. Its on wheels and everything, we were just saying last week how we need to get one because our fire pit is in the back and its so hard to drag the hose back there. I'm going to get some spray paint and it will look new. Brand new is well over 100 dollars.