Good time of the year for pickings on lawns and sidewalks around the Ave area too! Although that's getting less exciting as we near towards the actual start date at the U-dub.
I have a couch and a set of very nice, collectible dishes that I got free from somebody's front yard in Duvall. Never clothes, though. The couch is being reupholstered.
@5, it's a Victoria thing, too, and rampant in my neighbourhood (as are yard sales). My favourite was a box labelled "free" and all that was in it was a broken lampshade and an old shoe.
(American English used throughout)
In Australia, the city/county sends trucks to every urban and rural neighborhood twice a year to pick up items that need to go to the dump (unwanted or broken furniture and small appliances, for example). All you need to do is put them on the sidewalk a couple of days before the planned pick up. Scavenging is silently condoned. Because of this, you don't see the illegal dumping that happens in the States.
Please wait...
and remember to be decent to everyone all of the time.
It's a whole new marketing spin on dumpster diving...now the dumpster...is here at your doorstep!
I've always thought it was an amazingly sweet quirk about Seattle that people do this.
I just put out an old chair of ours (gross chair, really) just to see if anyone would take it. And it was gone in two hours. Beautiful, I love it.
In Australia, the city/county sends trucks to every urban and rural neighborhood twice a year to pick up items that need to go to the dump (unwanted or broken furniture and small appliances, for example). All you need to do is put them on the sidewalk a couple of days before the planned pick up. Scavenging is silently condoned. Because of this, you don't see the illegal dumping that happens in the States.