A stuffed Canadian goose.
That’s right. I don’t need none of that stinking furniture! Give me my goose and I’m just fine.
Actually I just pulled it out of the trash to scare the snot out of my unsuspecting friends.
Well of course, you say. What other reason is a goose ever stuffed for?
My Dad once found a perfectly good dual tape deck/radio with nice big speakers in a Dumpster once. One of the decks wasn’t working right, but it was easy to fix.
A knew of a company that was throwing away a McIntosh MC-60 monoblock audio amplifier. (It wasn’t used for musical reproduction. It was used in an R&D lab on an electromagnetic shaker for many years.)
“Can I have it?”
“Sure.”
It was manufactured in 1959. Little did they know that this model was quite rare and (consequently) considered valuable to collectors of older McIntosh amplifiers. (Before you criticize me, realize that information has value. I knew it was worth something, they didn’t, therefore I reap the benefits.)
Cosmetically it was in pretty bad shape, but it did work. I got $450 for it on Ebay.