Saturday, July 26, 2014
Pissed off trash picker
There's a big difference in someone happy to find usable trash and this guy. He's always pissed off at the people who throw shit away. He talks of the need for 'rules and regulations' to stop waste and what shitty people they are for not feeding the poor. Dude, it's rice. Rice is cheap, it's nothing. When people own something, they have the right to dispose of it. They don't owe you, society or anyone else a damn thing. One thing we don't need is more damn rules. Take what you want and be glad to get it and stop bitching and moaning. You act a fool at every dumpster. Besides, dry goods get mealy worms, that's why they have expiration dates. That stuff has to be frozen first to be stored safely. I can't believe anyone makes this big a deal out of a bunch of shitty, cheap rice. What he has is called an illness. A mental illness. Hoarder mentality.
I got blocked by a Guntown dude in a pickup yeserday on the way to the pool. When I stopped behind him, he yelled, 'don't even touch that table, that's mine!' I told him I didn't want that ugly table, I just wanted him to shut his driver's door so I could get by. He got insulted and said, 'That's a good wood table with matching chairs!' I said, no it aint. It's fake Early American fake walnut and ugly as fuck, but, to each his own. On the way home from the pool, he was back, this time, unloading it and I couldn't resist. I stopped and asked what happened? He said, 'My old lady said it's fuck ugly.'
LMAO! I told him to take it down to Beer Can Alley, we can use it as a picnic table until it dies and then burn it. But, I think he was just humiliated enough by then. The one rule of trash picking is, things are only as valuable as YOU think they are. Have fun, stop getting pissed off at the other guy.
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That's funny! My husband likes to collect crap and bring it home. Cuz he can "use it for parts", or some BS. The last thing he brought onto my property was a huge ass bubblegum pink vinyl chair sleeper. Omg! I said if you don't throw that on the burn pile, I will. Wth? My house is basically all white colors, shabby style. Not Fred Sanford style! That chair scared me but I knew I wasn't having it. I saw it busted up on the burn pile yday. Yay! Whew! He's older and his knees are shot now. So he's not as bad as he used to be. But JC. He likes junk. F that! I hate it. If he owned a car, years ago, and found one like it cheap, he'd haul it home "for parts". I cried. I cussed. I screamed. I think he finally got tired. Thankfully it's all gone long ago. But GD. I felt for that idiots wife in this post. She is me.
OMG, Lissa would have loved that in her room. I love trash, junk and dumpster diving. I come from a long line of junkers. But, I've learned to be picky. Will I use it? Does it hold any real value? That kind of thing. It helps to know a little about antiques for resale. I love the thrill of finding something I think is cool. And it's so weird that when I need something, I always find it. Usually free, like that flower pot or my coffee pot when mine broke. (Brand new Mr. Coffee still boxed, in the trash.) I would love to have an exchange building. Like a hippie commune thing, where you take and leave. But, I'm careful what I put in my home, because you can't live like a hoarder. It messes up way more than your house and causes stress. Bad energy.
Pat, this is why I hate junk. Once he brought home a ski boat. On his truck. It sat in the driveway for 2 years. Not on a trailer. Just on the ground. My kids played in it. Ugh. Later at this house now. He had 5 pick ups. At once! One of them ran. And I had my car. He got in trouble for all that and was never that bad again. I am humiliated by that shit. He has no shame. It's not even funny to me now. That's why my beautiful flower beds are sooo important to me. That's ME. Not him. But he has also wrecked every car I've ever owned...and while they sat in the driveway. I shit you not. Every f'g car. As they sat! Like my driveway is the demolition derby! I kinda hate that. He had to fix them$$$. I just know it will be on me to go thru and throw it all away one day. I'm going to hire a big dumpster, and open the window and just start filling it up. Then I will move my ass far from here. And yes. It's really bad fung shway. However u spell it. Bad bad energy. I need a water element inside, for some peaceful energy.
He needs a fenced area for his junk yard, so you don't have to be affected by it. I hate 'man' junk. I like MY junk. LOL. I have inherited man junk with my new place. A golf cart, an ugly boat, a trailer full of liquor bottles. There are weapons behind the beer cans stacked in the garage. I glimpsed them last night. I saw two crossbows and a machete. There might be worse back in there and I have kids here all the time. That shit has to go or be locked up. I already found two old guns and locked them up. That place is man city and it's gonna change!
ps..there's a LOT more I haven't gone through. It was a dumping ground. I did score two cool old wooden chairs. I have to get pics of them. Anyhow, I gave the guys their beer drinking alley, I don't need it. But, they DO have to make it safe for the kids. They understand that. I have an old metal cabinet I can put back there. And all the shit has to go. Men are gross.
http://www.pinterest.com/dumpaday/uses-for-old-pallets/
I'm tearing up a couple of old pallets right now and thought of you and your new house. Maybe you could use some of these ideas for your new reno?
I've made (and sold) tons of stuff from pallets. There are tons of ideas online like this.
And yes, I grew up in a pink tiled bathroom and love them to this day!
I got sucked into the making sgit out of pallets thing. We just put on a new roof and had pallets here, so I'm making an herb planter to put by the back door. I'm hoping it won't be a huge waste of time.
He can't have it like that anymore. So, that's out. He collects wood now. We had 6 big trees cut down and he's collected all the wood. We don't have a FP. Lol. It's all cut and neatly stacked all over the barn lot. No, no more junk out back. Thank the gods. Yea, men don't know what good junk is. They collect wood piles, metal shit, wires, old tires, stupid boats and mowers. Stuff they are "gonna fix!" BS. We collect dishes, linens and furniture. Men don't know shit. He has to burn it all now. No fence. Only FIRE! I'm done with my "man rant". Lol.
I could use those metal shelves in my shed. I wouldn't mind finding those.
Angry freegans are no fun. Just appreciate what you find, and move on. Food gets wasted everywhere in the United States. I don't even want to think about what gets dumped out from the buffets in Las Vegas.
When George and I were first married, we lived in an apartment complex. One day, there was this cute, funky little curly iron baker's rack sitting out by the garbage dumpster. I hustled over there and dragged it up the stairs. It's 25 years later, and it has gone everywhere with us. I still have it as storage in the back room. Free is a very good price. But, please, be cheerful about it. If there is just too much, and it worries you that people are throwing away excessively, pick it all up, and pass it on to people who need it. There are plenty of hungry people around who can make good use of extra food.
My son's store puts expired bakery and other items out behind the store in a shopping cart, and just leaves it there. They know that there are those who will come and supplement their diet with stuff that is still safe to eat, but either too close to expiration to sell well, or is unattractive for some reason. As far as fruits and vegetables that are past their prime, the same store will not allow anyone to use them. I asked for this stuff for my birds, thinking that it would reduce waste, and supplement my birdies nicely. I was told that they couldn't give any of that away, as people might consume it, get sick, and then sue. Supposedly someone took bruised, discarded stuff for their animals, ate it themselves instead, got sick and sued the store. I'm not sure if that is true or not, but it was clear I wasn't getting anything for my birds.
That's a funny story about the table. It's like a man to think something butt-ugly is really nice, and that he should take it home. Hilarious that his wife set him straight so quickly. Fake walnut. How lovely. I have a clear mental image of it as I grew up with that sort of stuff.
Christina
I love this post.
Just wondering, I'm gonna go look at that, wait here ( :) )...Oh wow, not what I expected. Some of that stuff is damn cute. I love the coffee table and china cupboard. I marked that page.
Angie, can I see your planter when you get it done? This pallet crafting is way cool, and girly too!
Rox, oh tell me about it. Man junk is wierd, harsh and fug. I want Joey to live with me, but, damn we argue about man stuff vs. woman stuff. He was outraged when I told him I'd decided on yellow trim with a pink door. I said, fuck, I'm not painting the alley, shut up. All that broken machinery and vehichles though..got to go. I see plantings in those places. You should see the wood pile I inherited. There's a wood stove in the garage, which is fine. But, the wood pile is right by my house! No thanks. The logs are too big for me to lift. I said if that isn't gone, I will make a flower border out of it. (They don't know I can't lift that shit.) I threaten to paint anything I hate pink if it isn't moved.
Jane, yep, the shelves would be great in a shed or garage. I need some too. I find them all the time and pass them up because there's no place for them here. In the new place, I do need them. I have more rooms, storage etc.
Christina, I have the same story! I found and old green metal baker's rack 20 years ago, in a store dumpster, and I still have it. It's beat up, but, cute and big. I used to use it in the kitchen, but, over the years I got more antique cabinets. It now sits right outside my front door as a potting bench. It's handy. I'll be taking it with me, I don't know where it will go next, but, it travels.
I hate angry Freegans. I also hate their preaching attitude, just take it and shut up. They didn't invent dumpster diving. Idiots. We don't have stores where you can get food here,but, as a kid, I ate it. The dump was a big deal when I was little. Boy, my granny knew how to dump dive. We got all our baby chicks from the dump back then. Now they drown them all. It's a shame. I'm not even sure you can still take anything from our dump, but, we're fixing' to find out as I have saved enough money to haul trash now. That starts first of August.It's a big and expensive job, but, it has to be done before I can patch and paint inside.
PS, guess what Joey scrounged up for me this week? A little wooden roll top desk! Cute as hell. He put it in my new house, safe and sound. It was in the trash!! He has an eye when he wants to. It's missing a bottom door, which can be easily replaced. The roll top works fine and I'll paint that sucker up cute. Maybe for the kid's room. Men are handy sometimes as they own trucks and strong backs.
PPS, Christina, I knew you gals would know exactly what that fake walnut table looked like. Round, spindly, shiny on top. Fuck ugly. It would be fine if you had no table at all, but, I have tables up the ying and real ones. That fake colonial crap used to come free with trailer houses back in the 70's. That's what it looked like. Dumb men can't tell laminate from wood.
PPPS, Rox, you own a barn??? Holy crap. A barn! That is too cool and too many possibilities there. My farm had two barns. I just kept livestock in them, but, damn, barns are cool. Can I see a pic?
My old baker's rack has been in the basement for the last 25 years or so. But it's moving to college with my granddaughter and will be perfect for her printer, books, files, small baskets and so much more. I bought some cute string lights and a few battery tea lamps to decorate it.
Decorating with junk began as a necessity for me but turned into a passion over the years. I love things that were once loved by someone else.
I sent a pic, although it will look much better next year with the herbs.
JW, your kid will be the envy of her college friends. I love junking too, I remember so many college 'homes' and how creative they got with no money. I like that look still. It's just more comfortable than the decorator done stuff. I didn't know you had grand kids that old. I thought of you as being a young gal for some reason. You must be young at heart. I like knowing these tidbits about people though.
Angie, thanks!
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