I already have a laundry basket but these were FREE. I also found a free bucket last week.
It’s quite amazing that there’s a place full of free things that you can just take when no one is looking.
You have found the cursed laundry baskets and will forever lose one sock per load of laundry, even if the load contains no socks.
even if the load contains no socks.
What if the sock contains loads?
Still crunchy!
This sounds like a writing prompt 😄
things that you can just take when no one is looking.
That applies to a great many things, and places!
Often it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Careful now, these posts are getting more interesting
I’m trying. I almost never post here anymore because every time someone tells me it’s too interesting.
This always bugged me. I throw away stuff sometimes because it’s just too difficult to find it a good home so I imagine there are lots of things like this.
Sometimes I fantasize about having an unlimited inventory like in video games that I just throw stuff into. And how awesome would it be for a shared inventory that worked the same way. I mean I guess things like free stuff on Craigslist or Facebook are sorta like that but requires the time and means to go get it.
I suffer from a chronic inability to throw things away if there’s even a slim chance I might need them one day. I’ve developed a system I call “deep freeze”: I take the item, wrap it in food wrap and packaging tape, write what’s inside and the date it was sealed, then add it to the pile of other stuff I’ve put into long-term storage.
This obviously doesn’t help if you literally don’t have the space for it, but in my case it’s more about trying to stay somewhat organized. This way I can forget about it without throwing it away, but also without having to deal with it again.
I throw away stuff sometimes because it’s just too difficult to find it a good home
My city does a couple of official “free giveaway weekend” events each year.
People are encouraged to put used but still useful stuff on the curb with a “free” sign, and allow others to take what they need (only if it is marked as free, though).
I’ve got rid of lots of things, and have also found a good number of things I can use.
Sometimes I fantasize about having an unlimited inventory like in video games that I just throw stuff into. And how awesome would it be for a shared inventory that worked the same way.
You just described a public library. Get a library card, use it, and encourage your friends to do the same. This is one small way that you can actually make the world a better place right now.
Yeah that’s a planned feature update for outside but I don’t think we’ll get it in 9ur lifetime. We’re stuck in a loop with developers chasing thier tails while publishers/stakeholders are enshittifying everything for profit.
What happened to the flying cars?? We barely have electric cars picking up market share!
Lucky last time I went I ended up with more garbage than I brought there.
At our dump, we’re specifically told not to scavenge. Purely unloading. That didn’t stop me, however, from just happening to kneel down next to a gameboy advanced I saw on the ground. Screen was a little banged up, but it still had batteries, and it still turned on. I’m still riding that high.
I didn’t see a sign explicitly telling me not to but I didn’t ask for permission either.
I don’t know if rule-breaking badasses are allowed with us Dull Men.
“Surely I can fix this old radio I found.”
And even if not, I can keep it for parts.
Now you’re starting to sound like my garage…. I think that’s an ADHD hoarding thing.
My grandfather passed a few years ago, and now that the house is up for sale we cleaned the last bits out.
I managed to grab a bunch of stuff that maybe Someday™ I’ll use. Mostly bits of metal I’ll possibly melt down or use for electroplating, a bunch of old steel tools that are in different states of disrepair, and assorted lengths of wire.
I know I will likely die before I find use for it all, but it seems wasteful to chuck it in the garbage, and I’d rather someone find use for it as is than take it to the scrapyard.
*Tosses it in the parts bin
Luckily that was not the case this time as I went in with an overloaded trailer of deck planks.
Where I live they now charge to take anything from the dump. I might be a bad person but if I have something I think needs to be thrown away I make sure it’s fucked now.
I miss going there as a kid and finding cool stuff for free
hell yea brother
Awesome. Amazing what people trash sometimes
That’s a good deal, how much liquid can they hold?
Two severed torsos.
I have the exact same laundry basket
I bet you’re jealous that I have two
It doesn’t matter how many you have. It matters how you use it.
I think I’m turning them into outdoor recycling bins. I’m producing quite a variety of waste that I want to dispose of properly. I’m thinking one for empty aerosol cans, and I’m not sure about the other yet. Most of the stuff I have that much of is pretty heavy, and the basket probably won’t hold up to it.
Confirm what it’s made of. A lot of plastics turn brittle when left outside, especially in the shn
I’d likely put them in a shade behind my shed but in either case - they were free.
Not saying it’ll happen to you but it reminded of my dad putting firewood in a plastic bin and it shattering into a million shards when he tried to move it the following year lol
I was considering using the other for treated lumber off-cuts but I think if I did, it would end up like you described.
