Why do people leave their junk outside and except people to actually want it?

[Anonymous]

Oh OP.

In our neighborhood, there are frequent "free, on the curb" alerts on the listserve. I am always amazed by how generous and kind people are in giving away things.

[Anonymous]

What an obnoxious post (and poster.)

[Anonymous]

What's with the inflated ego of OP, that she thinks the landfills are there just waiting for her stuff?

Agree, this is up there for "most obnoxiously clueless" post of the year.

[Anonymous]

Wow, people do this in my neighborhood all the time. I think it's better to let people take the stuff than throw it in the trash.

[Anonymous]

They do it because it is better than sending it to a landfill, and because people do actually want it.

[Anonymous]

Alas, if it were good stuff I'd take it, but the only stuff I've seen left on the curb in my neighborhood (I'm talking to you, junk dumper on the corner of 40th Place and W in GP) is straight up TRASH. I'm talking textbooks from the 80s, old beat up three ring binders, stinky shoes, Tom Clancy books... ew. Okay, I did take a wicker basket from your regular pile ONCE. But please stop. It stays there for days and please, you know it's crap.

[Anonymous]

I remember when moving out of my first apartment I had a nice wardrobe styled storage unit that someone had given to me. I loved it and had used it for storage and a printer (previously used as a wardrobe and as a TV stand) - but it was too heavy to take with me. I took part of it apart and had friends help me move it outside, posted a "free" sign on it and it was gone in less then 5 minutes. Same with the couch that I put out.

I don't see what's wrong with it. As long as it's not sitting outside for too long - if it is the owner needs to take responsibility and make arrangements to take care of it.

[Anonymous]

Don't touch my junk!

[Anonymous]

Tom Clancy books -- where -- gotta have them

[Anonymous]

We have to put out our "bulk trash" the night before it is picked up.

[Anonymous]

because people do actually take the weirdest stuff. when i moved into my new house, the seller left two old TV's out on the lawn for special trash pickup that she had to pay for. The day I moved in, I saw one of the movers eyeing the TV's. They disappeared when the movers left. I called the seller to tell her to cancel the pickup so she could save some money! So people do take the stuff on the curb.

[Anonymous]

There's a guy that comes around my neighborhood with a truck every weekend before trash pickup and picks up anything with scrap metal, and another couple that picks up other random stuff like broken furniture. I assume they make money somehow doing it.