The best thing you ever got for free?
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Anonymous
| I’ve gotten about $2K of stuff from my Buy Nothing group. Nice desks, really nice dressers, lululemon, nespresso, high end designer clothes. Lots of nice stuff. I also give away nice stuff that I not longer use. |
Anonymous
| The best parents ever. They made sure to tell me every day they loved me and gave lots of hugs. Even when I was completely unlovable as a teen. They never ever made me feel like I was a burden or inconvenience. I have tried to do the same with my kids but I sometimes fail. No possession could ever come close. I just wish my mom was still alive so I could tell her that she was a gift! |
Anonymous
| My dog!! Has brought the most amount of peace and joy to my life. Wasn’t totally free, but almost. Bang for the buck: immense. |
Anonymous
+1 My world has expanded so much thanks to my library card. |
Anonymous
This is beautiful. Thank you, pp, for sharing this. |
Anonymous
| concert photo op with one of my favorite bands |
Anonymous
| Ticket to Elvis concert in Hawaii |
Anonymous
| I got $400 for letting these guys bury Jimmy Hoffa in my back yard. |
Anonymous
| A honeymoon |
Anonymous
Yes, but we went on to buy two more. |
Anonymous
| a hug from one of my favorite humans |
Anonymous
| Renovated bathroom for $3k My contractor needed to make payroll on a holiday week before he started a major reno project. Did my own demo. |
Anonymous
❤️ |
Anonymous
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inherited some mineral rights from my husband, who inherited them from his father. Once in awhile I would get $40 or so from one of these properties (none of the rights involved large percentages of the pooled rights). Then one day I got paperwork in the mail to sign and had to return paperwork to prove I was who I said I was, followed by a check for $13k. I didn't have much money at the time and desperately needed a new roof, so that went to pay for re-roofing. It was a few years' accumulated royalties from a new well on the property.
It later turned out someone else owned the original deed--this was a case where the rights were sold in the 50s (for $1) and it was standard to use initials and last name. My FIL was in the oil business his entire life, although he moved to a different region where his activities also moved (due to new oilfields discovered a few years later). There was no actual well until the 80s, the outfit drilling tracked him down, he signed paperwork attesting to himself as the proper owner, and received a photocopy of the deed. The person with the original died in the last few years and his daughter found the deed and gets the royalties now. I did not have to pay back the money I received. |
Anonymous
| My dad signed a three-bedroom apartment in an elite neighborhood in my home country to me. |