Most of my friends aren't junk collectors, but I had to share somewhere. I'd been resisting buying a lawn mower for 2 years since moving, figuring that it was the kind of thing people would throw away as they replaced lawns with drought tolerant plantings. After two years of occasionally trimming ground cover with hedge shears, I FINALLY FOUND the model "mulching" electric lawnmower I'd been hoping for on the street with a FREE, WORKS sign, the best kind of sign.
Addicted to street finds, I had a hard time adjusting moving from a metropolis to a small town where garages and ingenuity supplant the need to constantly throw unneeded things out. I went from a City with streets paved with gold to a town with barren alleys and lame trash with nothing good to pick. People even SELL bricks on Craigslist. Where I'm from you'd get PAID to haul bricks. Not sure if others have had to make that transition, but it's sobering to realize the Wal-Mart that was all around you and always had everything on 100% sale was suddenly closed for business....only to find EXACTLY what you wanted while walking the dog. No number of wifely eye rolls were going to dissuade me from wheeling that triumphant sucker home.
Sorry guys, it's been a while without a find and I just needed to get this out there.
