Off My Chest
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In my city you just put anything you don't want out in the street, maybe with a little note saying "still working" or some other relevant info if it was an appliance and it will usually be gone within the hour.
I have furnished multiple flats with free street furniture that I have come across whilst out and just had to carry home.
I realise that it is not like this everywhere but I love the culture of actively recycling useful items within the community just by leaving them in the street for people!
Be very careful with "free" furniture. Easy way to get bedbugs, at least in my area in the US.
Yeah, I'm super allergic to them so I tend to stay well away from the free zone
.....they are free pets, double win.
Yeah, there's an unwritten rule in my area that if something is left close to the street, it's fair game, sign or no. I almost had my bike taken as a kid because I carelessly left it in the free zone to grab a snack, haha! There's always cool stuff to find in people's free zones.
We had someone steal my daughter's wheel chair that was in our drive way in the 5 minutes it took for us to get her ready to get into it.
My parents had a few old barbeques that they didn't want. My dad said to put them out at the road, and I thought it was a waste of time. The next time I looked out they were gone. Somebody got their $3 of scrap at least.
Same here, especially if it’s got metal in it. Any thing that could be sold as scrap metal gets picked up in under an hour.