Round my way, eBay is not the preferred way of disposing of unwanted items, nor is it Gumtree. It is not even the fantastic bulky item disposal service provided gratis by the council. No, indeed, we prefer to just put stuff out on the street. If it is stuff that we are proud of, or we don't care what people think of us, we put it in front of our house. Sometimes, if it's something we are not so proud of, we put it in the shrubbery across the road.
I recently disposed of quite a number of items in this way. I have to say, the quality of the items I left on the street was fairly high, knowing as I do, that items will only get taken if somebody can think of a use for them. 9in fact, I myself was temted by a few things, and did stop to pick up a couple of pens on my way to school.) Having said that, I surmised that I really have very little idea of what somebody else might come up with a use for, so I tried my luck with all kinds of things. I will itemise those things that I can remember. All these things have been taken, over the last week.
An electric lawnmower (working)
A Dyson vacuum cleaner (hmm, not quite working)
A small radio/cassette player
Assorted small tiles
A large tub of tile fixative
A coat
Some brocade curtains
Various rubber stamps and ink
Assorted stationary
A hostess trolley
Assorted plates
Two calor gas fires
Three calor gas bottles (2 were later returned!)
A speaker
A thermos flask
Two pyrex dishes with lids
A pink lamp
About 8 beautifully made shutters with louvres
The only things that did not get taken were:
Four white dining chairs (I took them inside after 3 days when it rained, and decided I should keep them)
A box of large tiles (I'm leaving them outside:somebody must want them)
A canister of diesel oil
Two walnut effect curved cabinet doors (when my neighbour said he thought it unlike that anyone would take them, I mentioned that I had picked them up from outside somebody else's house)
A trestle table! I thought this would be highly desirable.
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2 comments:
may i ask why you had a hostess trolley in the first place? i know that you have an ever-expanding and interesting CV, but i never saw you as a trolley-dolly :)
also, how could you throw out pyrex?! they're very useful, you know, for heating/storing things.
the "walnut effect curved cabinet doors"..were they the wooden doors we picked up?
no, it wasn't them. but thanks for reminding me! they went so fast that I forgot i'd thrown them out! the hostess trolley was difficult to part with as i'd always coveted those of both my grandmothers'. but i never used it, shamefully...
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