On the way to town Saturday evening, I encountered Hick in SilverRedO at the top of His and Buddy's Badly Blacktopped Hill. There were random boards sticking over the closed tailgate of SilverRedO.
"What's all that?"
"I got it for FREE!"
"Of course you did. I don't have time for that story now."
"Okay. I'm going to unload it."
Hick is never happier than when contributing new FREE stuff to his hoard! Later I got the details.
"It's from a lady at the storage units. She gave away a weight bench on Facebook, and I was teasing her about it."
"So she just has lumber sitting around her storage unit?"
"No. It was at her house. I had to go pick it up."
"You're losing me..."
"She said her husband was cleaning out the garage. He was piling everything out by the road. When she was listing it, I told her, 'Don't let him put the lumber out by the road! I'll come get it!' So she called him to let him know. Then I got it when I left."
"It looked like random boards. And a pallet."
"There was three 2x8s, and three 1x8s, and five or six 2x4s, and four 1x4s. It wasn't a pallet, just some cut-off boards nailed together. That was probably about $165 worth of lumber that I got for FREE. She's the same lady I got the FREE doors from."
Well, you know what they say: One woman's husband's junk is another man's FREE treasure.
I have a bit of Hick in me, I see free stuff on footpaths and sometimes I'll pick it up knowing I'll find a use for it eventually. Lately though I've been walking past trying not to look, I have so much stuff in the shed, real things that don't fit inside my home, and things that have "potential" and I really have to stop gathering. All that lumber is a bargain for sure.
ReplyDeleteIf you see something REALLY good, maybe you can pick it up and discard a "lesser" find from your shed. The lumber will be good for trimming out windows and doors at Bargain House.
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