“Scrappers”

Maybe I should raise the price on my house…

BK; I’ll drop my 36″ TV off at your trailer and you can then market the pair as bookends. Sure to move quickly. You can keep the profit for buying Spam.

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If I made a practice of this for personal use I would have one rule. Nothing absorbent, couches, chairs and good God, never ever a mattress.

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I thought that went without saying!

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Not for everybody!

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I like how you can put an old couch on the sidewalk with a “free” sign and it sits for weeks. Put the same junk out with $50 or best offer and it is gone that day.

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I had my father do exactly the same thing. He had put out an old garden tiller that had a blown engine and it sat for a week.

So I told him put a sign on it that says, “$50”. It was gone the next morning.

Perception of value = value. I’ve heard several times how people RAISED the price of something on Craigslist that wasn’t selling and instantly it was the hottest thing out there.

Grouse

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I used to be a store manager at a big drug store chain. As items were discontinued or whatever they would get marked down and moved to the “clearance” endstand. I started moving poorly selling items back there, kept the price the same but printed it on the blaze orange tag stock and it would sell. People were conditioned that the orange tag equaled savings.

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BK; I’ll drop my 36″ TV off at your trailer and you can then market the pair as bookends. Sure to move quickly. You can keep the profit for buying Spam.

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I liked the bookends I had at the Yamaha booth much better thank you.

did ya pick them up out on the curb ?

The city of Bloomingtons Mn Curb Side Cleanup Days are LEGENDARY.

We go every year to at least the West portion which is the higher end homes area.

I probably have garnered way OVER $10,000 worth of valuable non junk stuff over the years and I’m not as hardcore as some of my friends. Currently my 3 snow-blowers and 2 lawn mowers “Lawnboy of course” are ALL from the Curb side program. My main score was a OAK Dinning room table and 8 chair set that I scored in mint condition.. It was from a lady that didnt like how dark it was.

We use to be pretty hush hush about it as it can be pretty crowded in the days leading up to the event.

We work in teams with trailers and trucks its a pretty elaborate system we have as you need to be quick and efficient .

One of the main ways to score great stuff during pre scouting is to chat with the home owners so PR is key and how I scored my Dining room set and many other great perfectly good items that arnt set out yet.

So yeah we’re just some po-dunk junk collecting fools….

I rememer this in my home town as a kid. We usually would go around and grab stuff, then move it to someones front lawn. I thing the best prank was done to me at the house where I rented the upstairs apartment. The guys must have been “collecting” for a long time. I walked outside into a fully set up bathroom. Toilet, tub, vanity and sink, rugs….everything set up nice and a big sign saying “have a nice sh#t” I was impressed.

Last year I was renovating a house and when we were gutting it there was an exercise bike that nobody wanted so we set it on the curb. It took a couple days for it to disappear but it finally did. About a month later I pulled up one morning and there it was sitting back on the curb. Guess they were done with it? Disappeared again a couple days later.

One mans trash is another mans treasure. You can get some good stuff dumpster diving. Got a nice BB gun up the road a few years back.

About 10 years ago a buddy and I were moving into a rental in NE Mpls and the previous tenets had left behind a destroyed leather couch. Like they had a dog that completely ate off most of the leather on the cushions and back. We moved it out onto the curb on University Ave and after moving in one load of our stuff, there were guys cramming that thing into a van.

That things was complete garbage, but someone saw it and hauled it away. Hate to see the couch it was replacing.

Ha! I think I remember that story Doug.

Cool beans and lucky too be you. Some people need to do this. If you don’t like people picking it up don’t set it out.

Riverruns is just a smidgin angry he didn’t get there first.

We had an old 3M coping machine (the large monster that came out right after the ditto machine). Took it out the the curb for garbage pickup…we could do that back then.

A fella comes to our door and asked if he could take it for spare parts for his dinosaur. I helped him load it up. I thought him asking was very polite!

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Cool beans and lucky too be you. Some people need to do this. If you don’t like people picking it up don’t set it out.

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U mad bro?

I just got back from a week in Florida. My father is a snowbird and has a place in Port St Lucie. He was telling me that the garbage men there take everything you put out.. so the scrappers get up early and make the rounds before the garbage men… we saw a couple trucks going by that were full. It was weird… anything you put out gets picked up.

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I just got back from a week in Florida. My father is a snowbird and has a place in Port St Lucie. He was telling me that the garbage men there take everything you put out.. so the scrappers get up early and make the rounds before the garbage men… we saw a couple trucks going by that were full. It was weird… anything you put out gets picked up.

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Anything? hmmmm…

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I just got back from a week in Florida. My father is a snowbird and has a place in Port St Lucie. He was telling me that the garbage men there take everything you put out.. so the scrappers get up early and make the rounds before the garbage men… we saw a couple trucks going by that were full. It was weird… anything you put out gets picked up.

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Anything? hmmmm…

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Pretty much. He told me that he broke a glass-top end table. He put it out and someone came by and picked up both the broken glass as well as the table.