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Old 02-27-2008, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by sakigt View Post
I certainly dont dumpster dive, but I have stopped and picked up furniture on the street ready to be thrown away. I know others do the same. In my dad's neighborhood anything we put out to be tossed was taken in at least 15 minutes
We were at my in-laws one evening when I helped my father-in-law take an old bench out to the corner for the trash the next day. We noticed it was gone about 30 minutes later. Then, when we pulled out of the neighborhood, we saw the bench down the street on someone elses curb. I guess they had a better piece of trash and the person decided to "trade up" and left my in-laws bench behind.
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