I have done the same thing....and it does not stay on the curb for long. I guess people can fix things, and use parts if not.
More power to them, gets it out of my house and out of the landfill.

Trin

It would've been fun to go "shopping" in your town last night. I think with envy of Marilyn C and all the neat things she's collected over the years for their new house.

I still kick myself for the time I was driving to work and just down the street from our house there was a rattan table and four chairs with cushions out at the curb. I would've been late for work if I'd stopped and asked if I could take it, plus I had a VW at the time which wouldn't have even held one chair. But I still think about it.

Sounds like you had a great "purge". Doesn't it feel good?

Yes, it does Patti. I have so much more to do, though. ) :

I'm glad people took the stuff and can maybe put it to good use. People use headboards/daybed frames for trellis's and old chairs can be 'planted' with flowers for the 'junk garden'. Not sure what someone would do with an old microwave. Surprised the glass tabletop wasn't taken... have you priced a nice piece of thick beveled glass (you didn't say if yours was beveled or not)? Not cheap!

I wish we had a scheduled "trash" pickup day like that to get rid of large items. The city will only pick up appliances at the curb only if you call and arrange it.

I often put large things at the curb and it isn't long before they are picked up by someone. Every night before garbage day people go up and down the streets in pickup trucks looking for metal and any other perceived "useable" items. LOL I cleaned out my basement and one guy came and took everything including old broom handles.

Walking down my street a few years ago I came across a box that had all kinds of items in it. The woman had died and her family threw out some of her knick-knacks they didn't want. I picked up some "blue mountain pottery" figurine pieces which I sold for a good price at my yard sale and a few pieces I kept.

My best friend's grandfather put his old unwanted fireplace andirons at the curb of his house more than 50 years ago and my brother David picked them up and brought them home where they have been used the fireplace in this house ever since. I love them and would never get rid of them. When my friend and her parents moved in with their grandfather the only thing I remember their fireplace being used for was for holding their toys box. LOL I wonder if old grandpa closed off his fireplace because a new baby was coming into the house and tossed out the andirons because he wouldn't need them.

I see good stuff at the curb on my walks or after yard sales and I wished I knew how to refurbish or refinish. My sister was good at finding things and making them work in her house.

Now that I think of it the old shutters that used to be on my house to frame the front door came from someone's garbage and I remember going out with my sister at night and taking them from someone's trash. She sanded and painted them black and they were good as new - something we would never have been able to afford back then.

Anne

FYI My DH uses the old magnets out of computers as stud finders on the job site....

Lydia, yes, the glass was beveled, maybe I should have kept it for the yard sale? I have another end table that's just like it and eventually will get rid of it too. The legs haven't broken off like the other one, yet.

I'm cleaning off Alex's old entertainment center right now. It's going to go to a co-worker's nephew who lost everything in an apartment fire about a month ago. Apparently he still hasn't found a new place to live so I'm going to put it out in the garage, once I get the garage cleaned up. He's also getting my old tv and our old dining room table and the two remaining chairs that aren't falling completely apart yet. I'm going to have to find a new computer chair for myself, because I've been using one of those dining room chairs for years as a computer chair. lol.

Last summer DS and I put some old doors out at the curb. One was the walk in door to my garage and I replaced it with a better door a neighbor gave me. I think there were 4 doors out there before dark. The next morning DS said that about 2 a.m. a car stopped out in front and the guy kept looking over his shoulder as he loaded 3 of the doors in his car. The only one left was a louvered storm door that I need to take to a recycling place. There are things at curbside all over my town because the college graduation was this weekend. All rental leases expire on July 1 here so the last week of June is a great time to go curb shopping. That is when I miss my pickup truck.

Linda, when my DD was in college, she said the next students coming to rent often took the desks and beds put out at the curb for the apartments they were renting. Good recycling!

Kath, a nice thick piece of beveled glass for an end table costs about $40. to $50. here if you have the glass shop cut it for you.

Save the other piece and place it on top of a wide planter like this to make a end table:

Lydia, I do need something in the sunroom, to set drinks on. Maybe I can find a big pretty pot to put it on, going with the garden theme out there?

My trash hauler will pick up paint cans only if they are empty or have dried paint in them. If the cans are still liquid, I have to solidify the contents by using kitty litter. Just pour the litter into the paint cans and in no time you have a solid hunk of paint in there - a super heavy can,too. I once did nine cans this way.

Painted poo ...

... too?

ole joyful