We reorganized our guest bedroom over the last few days, tweaking the western theme and moving furniture, painting touch-ups, and hanging frames. In the process, an old (read 1980s) dresser, about as tall as I am, was kicked to the curb for today’s trash men to carry away to a landfill far away from subdivisions, where people like me don’t have to give it another thought. Praise da Lort, as Madea would say.
Of course, we realized the dresser would be long gone by the time the trashmen made their mid-morning rounds; the scavengers come at sunrise to whisk away one man’s trash and make it their treasure. This is a given. Always has been, always will be. These are the same people who arrive for 10am garage sales at 7am, hepped up on Lort-knows-what and eager to haul off half your stash. Is it the same where you live?
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It is exactly the same here. One of my wife’s cousins was a city bus driver who was dumpster diver on the side. One day while on her route she saw an old love seat on the curb. She stopped then bus, and had a rider help her drag the love seat onto the bus and then take it to her home. She ran late on that circuit.
Don’t get me started on the last garage sale that we had. Maybe I can do a post about that sometime.
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Ha ha! Where can you squeeze a loveseat on to a bus? The logistics of that hurt my head. Looking forward to that post…
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May the Peace of Lort be on all dumpster divers. Speaking of which;is the pic of a retirement home for said dumpster divers or is it the prototype for Burning Man?
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I think it’s a bonfire being held at Burning Man. 100 yrs ago, that is.
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Seriously?!. I had no idea it was that old. I think it’s pretty cool.
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No, no, I have no idea.
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You were just pulling my leg?. I am shocked and dismayed.
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I thought you were teasing about Burning Man, since it looks like Wild West dudes.
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Dumpster diving must be universal. But that tower. If they set it ablaze would be visible in Oklahoma. 🙂
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And it must have been one heck of a kegger. Or maybe they used their kegs for something else. . .
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Unless the Oklahoma tornadoes yesterday knocked it all down.
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Kerbz! Where do you find these pics?!?
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I have every picture of my life, of my friends, of every scanned yearbook/book/magazine in organized folders on my hard drive, named by the source, and would you believe, like a dumba$$, I labeled this “bonfire”? I can’t remember. All I know is I scanned it from one of the hundred picture books on Jan 3, 2015. Usually if you click on the picture, the source will be in the name. Ugh.
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Wow, you’re so much better than I am at this! Sometimes if I scroll through Facebook, I can find random photos from my past 🙂 Your photo library is impressive!
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Well, I waited until I turned 40 to scan everything. I was too busy the first 4 decades. 🙂
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Lorty, lorty, lorty, the extent T-Mobile goes to just to disguise their cell towers.
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Nicely done.
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They won’t take my stuff… I guess it ain’t worth hauling away. 😀
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wow–that is a heap of trash. I tend to be the one making someone else’s trash my treasure. Love to recycle. But then there comes a point when you don’t really need another piece of furniture, etc. Would love to hear more about the “tweaking” you are doing. ??
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I don’t really believe in feng shui or any of that, but there’s definitely a flow to a room, and this one just hadn’t even been great. We moved the bed to another wall, got a diff entertaiment center that was sleek, not dated, a new widescreen TV and gave Goodwill the last of our older chunky TVs (now all flatscreen), hung new framed paintings, spent 3 days at Lowe’s and Home Depot dealing w/ can after can of paint/primer, trying to get a dang matte finish instead of glossy. I redid the walk-in closet with new furniture (yes, it’s huge), quilts, pillows, comforters, etc.
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It is the same where I live, Kerbey. The people in this pile of treasure you show, though, they must own the biggest pickup in history. I also can picture them accomplishing this by use of crane and the world’s biggest magnet.
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That would be efficient. They are stealthy, like raccoons, and quiet as bandits.
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I know you posted this photograph several years ago, but I have seen this photo before and have been trying to track it down! Would you mind sharing anything you know about the date, photographer, or context of the photo? Or even where/how you found it? Thanks so much!
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It’s very strange because I name all my images with the source, and this one just says “bonfire003.” So that is no help! It looks about 100 yrs old. All I can guess is that it was in one of my many photo compilation books, perhaps a Time Life or book about the 20th century, but there is no telling. Another possibility is the Aggie bonfire; Texas A&M is notorious for their bonfires, so this could have been an early one. I’m so sorry. If I ever come across it again, I will respond to this thread.
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