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[ResAlien]

Originally Posted by Looch City

People putting items for free on their front lawn.

Tacky and ghetto as ####. Use the internet FFS or go donate it.

But driving to goodwill takes like ten minutes and I want to be lazy now

[mrkajz44]

I'm always tempted to change the sign from "free" to "please take away my garbage" because that's what they are really trying to do. Anything I've ever seen on the street for "free" is in such terrible condition it's clearly just trash.

[Fuzz]

I tried that with a pile of clay once.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Looch City

People putting items for free on their front lawn.

Tacky and ghetto as ####. Use the internet FFS or go donate it.

Unless it is a planned day.

Sylvan Lake had a "kick it to the curb" day.

People would put free stuff on the curb and if you wanted it you could take it.

The next day it was picked up with the trash if still there.

[Shazam]

Put a sign like "$50" on it, then it'll be taken for sure.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Looch City

People putting items for free on their front lawn.

Tacky and ghetto as ####. Use the internet FFS or go donate it.

I got rid of my leather couch in less than 5 mins. and i put it on my neighbors lawn! lol

[Reggie28]

I used to live in a lower income neighborhood. The junk that would disappear once it was by the back fence was amazing.

Old car speakers, gone before dawn
One rim, gone in a couple a days
Best one was an old bench seat from a 1980 Buick. Someone brought it to my house when we were having a party. It sat outside in the rain for a month in my backyard, I put it out by the back fence and it disappeared after a couple of nights.

I didn’t have a truck at the time, so it worked out for me. Trashy I know, but people wanted my junk. Maybe it was someone who recycled metal and there was value to it for them. That junk definitely had negative value to me.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I tried that with a pile of clay once.

... and you just ended up with even more clay.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

... and you just ended up with even more clay.

I started with bentonite and ended up with Aiken.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by Looch City

People putting items for free on their front lawn.

Tacky and ghetto as ####. Use the internet FFS or go donate it.

My neighbor is currently doing that with their stuff as they get ready to move. It's totally ghetto af, and it kinda annoys me. Just random garbage strewn over the lawn.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Reggie28

Best one was an old bench seat from a 1980 Buick. Someone brought it to my house when we were having a party. It sat outside in the rain for a month in my backyard, I put it out by the back fence and it disappeared after a couple of nights.

So… did this person offer to bring some extra “seating” for your party, then forget to take their garbage home? Seems kinda fkd up. “Finally a chance to get rid of that bench seat we thought might be worth something someday!”

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by Reggie28

I used to live in a lower income neighborhood. The junk that would disappear once it was by the back fence was amazing.

Old car speakers, gone before dawn
One rim, gone in a couple a days
Best one was an old bench seat from a 1980 Buick. Someone brought it to my house when we were having a party. It sat outside in the rain for a month in my backyard, I put it out by the back fence and it disappeared after a couple of nights.

I didn’t have a truck at the time, so it worked out for me. Trashy I know, but people wanted my junk. Maybe it was someone who recycled metal and there was value to it for them. That junk definitely had negative value to me.

this is like my brother-in-law's place in vancouver. we went down to help reno his place before him and his wife got married. they had a bought a new washer & dryer and the plan was to just put the old ones out back in the alley. the two of us got the dryer out there first. we brought the washer out about 5 minutes later and the dryer was already gone! ha! the washer was gone that afternoon.

[Reggie28]

Originally Posted by Brendone

So… did this person offer to bring some extra “seating” for your party, then forget to take their garbage home? Seems kinda fkd up. “Finally a chance to get rid of that bench seat we thought might be worth something someday!”

That’s it. It was “wouldn’t this be great to sit on around the fire pit” then a few weeks of “tell your buddy to come get that car seat out of my yard”.

The mystery of the back fence ended the friction it was causing.

[undercoverbrother]

Sometimes work travel is fun, sometimes it is a bit much.

I gone more days in June than I am home.

That kinda grinds my gears

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Unless it is a planned day.

Sylvan Lake had a "kick it to the curb" day.

People would put free stuff on the curb and if you wanted it you could take it.

The next day it was picked up with the trash if still there.

Calgary had one last year. Scored two nearly new Adirondack chairs that needed nothing but a screws tightening, a little sanding and a fresh coat of paint.

[Wormius]

A bunch of neighbourhoods also participate in community clean up days where you can take larger items.

https://www.calgary.ca/communities/c...-cleanups.html

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Sometimes work travel is fun, sometimes it is a bit much.

I gone more days in June than I am home.

That kinda grinds my gears

Work travel in great, until you actually have to do it for any period of time, then it destroys your will to even travel on your free time.

[WideReceiver]

Where I live there’s a week where you can leave stuff at the curb for people to grab what they want. Don’t leave anything else around as people have been known to steal things.

That kid’s bike right beside the house? Seems to be fair game. Lawn mower beside the garage? Gone. People are ballsy.

[White Out 403]

I hate how abrasive I can be online and let my worse instincts drive the bus. There's always this ... simmering anger/rage under the surface I'm dealing with and I feel like it manifests itself the most online.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

I hate how abrasive I can be online and let my worse instincts drive the bus. There's always this ... simmering anger/rage under the surface I'm dealing with and I feel like it manifests itself the most online.

It's pretty normal for people to act differently to others online as they would in person. According to research trolls live inside all of us and some are simply better at suppressing that.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...n-social-media

I can only think of maybe one mean spirited poster at CP that's also probably an ####### in person. Most of the members here that may come off as abrasive in their posting, are likely to be much more pleasant to deal with in person.