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Post by Jersey on Sept 17, 2007 19:03:38 GMT -5
Have you ever managed to grab something cool that cost you nothing at all? The other day I was taking my girlfriend to Rite-Aid to pick up some cards for her parents anniversary. On the way we passed this persons house and I saw a 5 CD Changer stereo with two speakers sitting down at the end of the driveway. I thought about grabbing it, but I went to Rite-Aid first. I passed it again on the way back, and this time I stopped and picked it up. I took it back to her house and hooked it all up to test it. The thing works great, with a nice loud AM/FM radio and CD player. Got my moneys worth with this one. I brought it to school and it's over here next to me playing Marshall Tucker Band right now. SCORE!  Ever grab some cool free stuff? |
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Post by roflstunts on Sept 17, 2007 20:04:48 GMT -5
I found a perfectly good lollipop on the side of the road one time. It tasted like lemon, but it was brown like rootbeer. Weird huh?
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Post by Classicblast on Sept 17, 2007 20:20:12 GMT -5
Before I was married to Blastgirl I stayed in a small apartment and didn't have any furniture, or anything just what I could keep in my car. Well I always liked bike riding as part of a keeping fit thing but I had not brought one to town. And all my belongings like that I just kept at my parents house which is over 400 miles from where I was.
There was this 10 speed bike that was out in front of a house that I passed and it was there for weeks. Finally I knocked on the door and asked about it.
The person said that they never used it and they're probably going to throw it out because its old and shabby. They kind of tossed it out in the front figuring that they didn't care if someone took it.
So I said I would give a few bucks for it and they told me I could just have it. So I tossed it in the trunk of the car I had at that time and took it home. While watching tv I put it upside down in front of my couch and oiled the chain, sanded some metal gears and I used it for a while. I don't remember exactly how long but I think I had it until after I started living here year around. At least 3 years.
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Post by Mahnarch on Sept 17, 2007 23:00:25 GMT -5
Wow. One man's garbage, eh?
once, I was walking down the street and this lady had her purse just sitting there on her shoulder.
She wasn't using it, so I swiped it and ran!
Kidding!
Actually, shortly after I bought my house, 10 years ago, it seemed like everyone had furniture that they weren't using anymore.
As long as I loaded it, it was mine.
10 years later, I still use it all.
I don't care if it doesn't match.
I did break down a couch and burn it, though.
Those things go up fast!
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Post by skier1 on Sept 17, 2007 23:09:27 GMT -5
Would you believe that priceless artifacts actually don't have a price?
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Post by Blastgirl on Sept 18, 2007 0:31:55 GMT -5
Would you believe that priceless artifacts actually don't have a price? Sort of a fancy way of saying the best things in life are free.  |
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Post by Phil on Sept 18, 2007 13:41:04 GMT -5
That's one of the things that happens a lot for the our guys at work is we get sent somewhere for a repair or a clean up and things that get left along railroad tracks that happen to still be good is amzing. I for 1 wonder if people had thrown out perfectly good items or if they just lost them. Even so it's finders keepers.
I'm kind of a packrat and my wife is a throw it out if you're not using it person.
So we bang heads over that occasionally.
I got sent on a crossing repair job in Kentucky it was a weekend project that had me gone Fri, Sat, Sun and Mon. That was a few months ago and half my attic disappeared. If I have to do another of those the besement will be gone too.
It's just hey you might need a record player for something some day, and a Philco radio, those are all usable things. I know that's pushing it a little.
Big score for Jersey Life on the 5 disc changer though.
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Post by Mahnarch on Sept 19, 2007 0:06:29 GMT -5
Phil, I'm with you, man.
I'm a pack rat to the extreme.
I never know if I'm going to need a small chunk of hose or an oblonge shaped piece of angle iron.
My ex-girlfriend (many years ago) had her car towed to my house to fix (for free, of course) and she had just thrown out a bunch of my stuff, including a rubber hose that would have been perfect to fix her car......
That'll show the 'throw-away-ers'.
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Post by Blastgirl on Sept 19, 2007 1:29:00 GMT -5
Guys are packratish. Not so much Classic but he has been reprogramed by me.
My Dad terrible pack rat, and my Brother is too. Not my Mom and not me. Kim not really and out other Sister maybe a little but not too much.
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Post by weasel2htm on Sept 19, 2007 13:08:04 GMT -5
Don't get me started! - A Weedeater
- Pair of large 1960s speakers (took longer to take the back off than to perform the actual repair)
- 4 Oreck XL Commercial vacuums
- 2 DJ turntables
- various computer parts
and this is just some of the stuff I've gotten from the trash or intercepted on it's way to the trash. |
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Post by Phil on Sept 19, 2007 13:40:01 GMT -5
Exactly Weasel2htm. Who would throw out such perfectly good stuff?
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Post by Mahnarch on Sept 19, 2007 23:50:58 GMT -5
I've got plugs for things I'm not even sure I have the accessorys for.
But, hey a: 120v input, 9v output plug could come in handy some day.
I've got window fans that broke up the guard long ago and are now dangerous finger or dog nose cutters waiting to happen.
Pictures of people I have no idea who they are.
A microphone with a cut cord. (I may be able to fix that someday....perhaps with a 120/9v cord?)
Old, empty colonge bottles....Who keeps these?..oh, right. Me.
Two halves of a pair of scissors that I thing broke in '95.
Someday I'll rivet them back together.
My newest pair of sunglasses broke, recently so I pulled out my back ups.
A pair of Hologram Lensed Batman sunglasses from, like, 1988.
They have the chomolescent Bat symbol on the lens, but you can't see it from 'inside'.
I have, for some reason, a computer router that I found lying near a campfire that was out in the woods by my property in Branch, Mi.
I don't know. Maybe I can fix it, somehow.
It only has a little bit of dirt in it. Why would someone through it out? lol.
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My dad once found a 12 gauge shotgun with a burred barrel end and rusted to heck while hunting, once.
He took it home, *cough, cough, sawed if off,,couch* and re-blued it.
He uses it to this day.
Well, maybe not TODAY!, but still. It works.
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Post by Phil on Sept 20, 2007 13:26:06 GMT -5
See, you're prepared. I'm all saving things. youtube.com/watch?v=w4dYjL_GgjwYou're just never going to know when you will need something. Wouldn't it be a shame if you threw it out just before it came into use. Like the rubber hose and the car. Now you had to go out and buy a $5.00 hose. Oh the waste. |
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Post by Blastgirl on Sept 20, 2007 23:51:46 GMT -5
Phil with a video answer again. How did you find a brand new extension cord?
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Post by Mahnarch on Sept 21, 2007 1:59:13 GMT -5
I SEE SOME GREY ON PHIL'S TEMPLES!!!!!!
(first time I noticed)
You know what this means, don't you?!
Phil gets to play with his hair color!!!
I wanna see a 'blond Phil'!!!
Go for it, man! I went blond, black, kinda brownish, back in the day.
If you've got some grey, that opens the flood gate.
Tell your co-workers you're dressing for a part in a movie (which you 'would be')
BLOND PHIL!!
BLOND PHIL!!
BLOND PHIL!!
BLOND PHIL!!
[and, by the way, 'Blond' is guy. 'Blonde' is girl.]
Phil would be a hardcore rocker with blond hair.
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Post by thunderbird on Sept 21, 2007 4:02:02 GMT -5
Yeah Mahnarch has a point. Philly is getting a little gray in the temples. I am too. It's natural highlights. I know that's an old saying.
Yeah you do have the rocker type look Phil.
I never knew the difference in blond and blonde. I'm not an English major either though.
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Post by Mahnarch on Sept 21, 2007 22:33:00 GMT -5
The difference in 'Blond' and 'Blonde' is a big thing in the screenwriting world.
A Hollywood reader will pick up on something as small as a missing 'e' and call your script 'amaturish', or get confused as to who's saying what.
The blond grabbed the pick ax and chased the blond down the street.
He chased himself? lol.
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