Comments on: and never give it more than a frowning hour http://mauraweb.com/blog/2007/09/25/and-never-give-it-more-than-a-frowning-hour/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:25:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: maura http://mauraweb.com/blog/2007/09/25/and-never-give-it-more-than-a-frowning-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1577 maura Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:44:52 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=185#comment-1577 We have the curb too, and I feel like it <i>mostly</i> works, but sometimes I get worried that someone won't take what we put out and then it will go into a landfill. Plus some of this stuff is small -- for us the curb seems to work best for furniture. I do take stuff to Goodwill too, but that doesn't work for some of the weirder things. Like the contact lens solution I get always comes with a free contact case, and now I have about 10 of them! But maybe someone wants them? I feel like everything has a value to <i>someone</i>, you know? We have the curb too, and I feel like it mostly works, but sometimes I get worried that someone won’t take what we put out and then it will go into a landfill. Plus some of this stuff is small — for us the curb seems to work best for furniture.

I do take stuff to Goodwill too, but that doesn’t work for some of the weirder things. Like the contact lens solution I get always comes with a free contact case, and now I have about 10 of them! But maybe someone wants them? I feel like everything has a value to someone, you know?

]]> By: Anne http://mauraweb.com/blog/2007/09/25/and-never-give-it-more-than-a-frowning-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1576 Anne Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:21:39 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=185#comment-1576 We have a great system. It's called "the curb." You put your stuff out on "the curb" Wednesday afternoon when people are coming home from school/work/whatever. Thursday morning is the trash/recycling pickup, and there are scavengers roaming about. Sometimes things are gone from "the curb" within minutes. In fact I put a little end table out there right when we moved in. Someone had given it to mom and nobody liked it. It was semi-broken. I came back in the house, found a missing piece from it, and took the piece out to "the curb." By the time I got there the table was gone daddy gone. We have a great system. It’s called “the curb.” You put your stuff out on “the curb” Wednesday afternoon when people are coming home from school/work/whatever. Thursday morning is the trash/recycling pickup, and there are scavengers roaming about.

Sometimes things are gone from “the curb” within minutes. In fact I put a little end table out there right when we moved in. Someone had given it to mom and nobody liked it. It was semi-broken. I came back in the house, found a missing piece from it, and took the piece out to “the curb.” By the time I got there the table was gone daddy gone.

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