# Free stuff **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 6, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918 "2017-08-06T14:52:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/61 "2018-05-31T22:20:39Z")
Then there was the guy who tore out all his shrubs, replacing them with old copiers and printers. He didn’t really understand what xeroscaping is all about. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/62 "2018-05-31T23:49:53Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Then there was the guy who tore out all his shrubs, replacing them with old copiers and printers. He didn’t really understand what xeroscaping is all about. 😃 I think you’ve confused it with zeroscaping- taking everything out and not replacing it. 😃 I picked up a nice IKEA Poang chair this week - I’ll be painting the frame something bright to offset the black covering. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/63 "2018-06-01T01:33:05Z")
Wow Johnny L.A.! Will you come help me next? I just sold my home this spring and I was able to part with a lot of clutter. However, I still need to part with a lot more as my goal is to find a small townhome or condo. You are welcome to help. (I am currently in a furnished rental unit and will start looking for a place in July. My stuff is in a very large storage locker.) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/64 "2018-06-01T02:49:00Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Yeah, I totally am. 😁 > > I picked up an old sunburst clock today that is a couple of coats of paint away from being VERY interesting. 😊 I didn’t know those were still being made; thought they went out with the Age of Aquarius. Have you seen what they’re going for in stores? I saw one for $225. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/65 "2018-06-01T04:59:28Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I didn’t know those were still being made; thought they went out with the Age of Aquarius. > > Have you seen what they’re going for in stores? I saw one for $225. :eek: It’s this clock - I’ve decided to paint every other spine canary yellow. 🙂 [This here clock.](http://www.homeclick.com/stilnovo-1688-george-nelson-sunburst-clock/p-703579.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/66 "2018-06-01T23:39:49Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It’s this clock - I’ve decided to paint every other spine canary yellow. 🙂 > > [This here clock.](http://www.homeclick.com/stilnovo-1688-george-nelson-sunburst-clock/p-703579.aspx) If you scroll down to the thumbnails (?) just beneath the clock pic and mouse-jump back and forth real fast, you’ll…uh, probably get a headache. Looks cool, though. Did you see how much that costs? And marked down 48%, to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/67 "2018-06-02T00:24:25Z")
Nobody seemed to want my 2002 Winter Olympics U.S. Team Roots cap, so I took it back. Maybe I’ll wear it. Or maybe I’ll sell it on eBay. EDIT: Or not. There’s one on eBay for 99¢, and others are under $20. . ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/68 "2018-06-02T00:41:55Z")
^ Patience, **JLA** , the future owner may not have come by today, maybe tomorrow. I had a Roland volume pedal for years but it was still in great shape. Didn’t need it any more, so tried to sell it on CL and at yard sales we had at various locations we lived. Took about five, maybe six _years_, but it finally sold–via CL ad–to a very nice older gentleman who was learning the pedal steel guitar and didn’t want to spend loads of $$ on a new pedal until he was sure he wanted to really pursue it. We yakked for a half hour, and he was ecstatic to have it. It was a cool experience. I’ve had many good transactions thru CL and only one or two bad ones (knock wood). So, Ha Ha to the smart-ass at one of our yard sales who said I’d never sell that pedal for what I was asking. Professional musician type. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/69 "2018-06-02T04:31:25Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I pick up all the clothes I find in alleys (why are there so many clothes in alleys? The question for the ages), wash them with bleach, and take them to a charity to get a discount on clothes _I_ buy there. The circle of life. 😊 Not long after I moved into my apartment in 2012, I found a bunch of women’s clothes in the laundry room’s trash can. I liberated them; they were not my size, nor were they in styles that I would wear, but I did wash them and then took them to a consignment shop, and most of them sold! That was a pleasant surprise. Another time, I bought a large Rubbermaid tote full of children’s books for $5, and put quite a few of them in said laundry room with a “FREE” sign on them. Those didn’t last very long, either. My friend who lives in a building across the street had a neighbor who did the same thing with her kids’ outgrown clothes. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/70 "2018-06-02T04:33:51Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > We had a salvaged sofa, and my wife saw a better one set out on the curb by the street. So we hefted the old sofa down there and carried the new one home. My wife unzipped the cushions and put the covers in the wash, but it was some wierd miracle fabric and they literally melted in the dryer and turned to clumps of plastic. So we picked it up and hauled it back where it came from, and carried our original sofa back home again. Hope it didn’t also damage your dryer. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/71 "2018-06-02T04:56:28Z")
It was sprinkling a little bit, so I went down to the Free Corner with some plastic wrap and duct tape. I taped some plastic wrap to the top of the cardboard box that contains what’s left of the books. (I’m rather surprised nearly all of the books have been taken. Maybe I just have good taste.) I pulled back [_A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers_](https://www.amazon.in/World-ideas-Essential-readings-college/dp/0312892217) Second Edition (1986), which I’ve had since a class I took in the '80s (Poli Sci? Can’t remember.) Given today’s political climate, I should re-read the essays contained within it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/72 "2018-06-03T03:44:58Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Nobody seemed to want my 2002 Winter Olympics U.S. Team Roots cap, so I took it back. Maybe I’ll wear it. Or maybe I’ll sell it on eBay. > > EDIT: Or not. There’s one on eBay for 99¢, and others are under $20. > > . It’s a complete mystery to me what people will want and what they won’t. I’ve reached a point where I just throw it all against the wall and see what sticks. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/73 "2018-06-03T04:01:43Z")
Someone took most of the scrap 2 x 6 lengths I used to lay out the platform. So any more free stuff will have to go onto the grass once again. Also, the open side of the box of books (Only a few left!) was facing upward at a 45º angle. Kind of makes the plastic on the top side useless. I put it back so the open side is facing forward and the plastic-covered side is on top. . ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/74 "2018-06-04T23:57:33Z")
[The clock is painted!](https://imgur.com/6olUWm7) I did end up going with a bright yellow to offset the brushed aluminum - I think it turned out really well. [Hanging on my soft grey living room wall.](https://imgur.com/07Ct9sh) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/75 "2018-06-05T12:11:30Z")
Wow, that is beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918/76 "2018-06-06T00:35:23Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Wow, that is beautiful. Indeed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-stuff/792918.md?page=3)