One Man's Trash...

After reading this, you'll be trying to beat your man to taking the trash so that you can check out the goods at the dump (aka convenience center :)!  It's amazing how many things I have found while taking the trash to the dump. Ok, well sometimes I just stop in "for the fun of it" but there is usually something there waiting for me under the donation pavilion or in the book closet screaming my name and pleading with me to take it home, whether it's another piece of furniture, a magazine, or a lightbulb...lol.  My very understanding man says that he didn't know he was marrying Fred Sanford.

Pull up a barstool and let me tell you about the best "deal" I've found at the dump thus far. These two babies were destined to be tossed into the dumpster...TOSSED.INTO.THE.DUMPSTER.PEOPLE...as in NEVER.TO.BE.USED.AGAIN!  These are POTTERY BARN!  Do you KNOW how much these cost?!?  $250 EACH is what they cost!

  So, I pull up just as this crazy as a loon giving man is getting ready to heave the BRAND NEW POTTERY BARN barstools into the dumpster!  I park, jump out, and yell to the man to STOP because I couldn't bear to see them thrown into the dumpster only to be CRUSHED TO BITS and at the time I didn't even know they were POTTERY BARN! This guy proceeds to tell me that the two barstools each have a small scratch on the back of them.  His wife had ordered them from Pottery Barn and when they were delivered, they had these scratches (we're talking 1" or less scratches).  She called Pottery Barn and they told her to keep the 4 that she had and they would send four more. So, of course, what do you do with the first four?  You take them to the dump, is what you do...seriously?  Well, lucky for me they did, right?! After I had gotten home with these is when it occurred to me that he was saying he had 2 more to take to the dump! This was truly a slapping the forehead moment.  So, what I want to know is if anybody got the other 2 or were they really tossed into the dumpster never to be seen again?

Moral of the story:  One woman's trash is this woman's treasure!  

I <3 old books, especially when they are from the 1800's to early 1900's.  The old farm stool, we sold at our shop as well as the table below.  We kept the stool as is, but painted the lil' table.

I'm always finding good books in the book closet, whether they are for me or someone else.  Sometimes I will donate them to the library.  And I love to find current issues of magazines!

So, some of you probably wouldn't have taken the lightbulbs...but hey, these are worth about $6 each, so I figured it was worth it to me to see if they worked...they did!

Who's ready to take the trash to the dump?