I love Craigslist. I used it to find and buy a piece of furniture that was no longer being made in the color we needed it in. I also used it to sell my daughter's bike that she outgrew and some furniture that we just replaced. I am an avid Ebay'er, but for some things, it just makes more sense to use Craigslist. That being said, I like to cruise the free stuff for my area. Granted, I've never even had an urge to go pick something up - I'm just fascinated by what some people think someone will go out of their way to pickup for free. I once saw where a lady's cat died and she was giving away 10 lbs of kitty litter. Seriously! It's worth about $2. Throw it away! Why take the risk of having a crazy person show up at your house who now knows that you do not have a protective attack cat watching over you . See, this is how my brain works. That's why I like Ebay. They Paypal me and I mail something to them. Even if I sell it for $2, I don't have to meet them. If I want to sell a couch, yes, I'll take my chances that a psycho will show up at my house and send the wife and child to hide until I check them out.....but if I get the urge to no longer own the 6 yellow plastic knives that were left over from a Steeler party from two seasons ago...I'm going to throw them away. Do I think that someone is out there with 24 yellow spoons, 24 yellow forks and 18 knives going "Damn, now I have to buy another bag of knives to even this shit out." No. Why do I have 6 knives? I don't know. Maybe my wife didn't serve anything that needed to be cut. What happened to the other knives then? I don't know. Plastic knives always seem like they could be useful until you push too hard and they snap forcing you to say something like "Oh, For F's Sake" really loud. Where am I going with this? Oh yeah, this nut is giving away five ice cube trays. Looks like 2 sets of 2 and a bastard. Wtf? Really? WTF? Can't you buy these at the dollar store? Not only that, I bet you get 2 for $1. I'm weird about stuff like that. I wouldn't want my neighbor's ice cube trays, let alone a complete stranger's. Before we had the ice puking freezer, I used to not like those little crumbs that sometimes found their way into one of the tray's bellies. That sucker went right in the dishwasher. Throw them away, you damn pack rat. I bet you can't even find your husband in the house. He's somewhere under the collection of old TV Guides and concord grape jelly packets from the diner. I know The BurghBlog does an excellent job of mining Craigslist for personal ads. I never fail to laugh at those. I may make more of an effort to include funny free things here.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I'll Be Right Over
I love Craigslist. I used it to find and buy a piece of furniture that was no longer being made in the color we needed it in. I also used it to sell my daughter's bike that she outgrew and some furniture that we just replaced. I am an avid Ebay'er, but for some things, it just makes more sense to use Craigslist. That being said, I like to cruise the free stuff for my area. Granted, I've never even had an urge to go pick something up - I'm just fascinated by what some people think someone will go out of their way to pickup for free. I once saw where a lady's cat died and she was giving away 10 lbs of kitty litter. Seriously! It's worth about $2. Throw it away! Why take the risk of having a crazy person show up at your house who now knows that you do not have a protective attack cat watching over you . See, this is how my brain works. That's why I like Ebay. They Paypal me and I mail something to them. Even if I sell it for $2, I don't have to meet them. If I want to sell a couch, yes, I'll take my chances that a psycho will show up at my house and send the wife and child to hide until I check them out.....but if I get the urge to no longer own the 6 yellow plastic knives that were left over from a Steeler party from two seasons ago...I'm going to throw them away. Do I think that someone is out there with 24 yellow spoons, 24 yellow forks and 18 knives going "Damn, now I have to buy another bag of knives to even this shit out." No. Why do I have 6 knives? I don't know. Maybe my wife didn't serve anything that needed to be cut. What happened to the other knives then? I don't know. Plastic knives always seem like they could be useful until you push too hard and they snap forcing you to say something like "Oh, For F's Sake" really loud. Where am I going with this? Oh yeah, this nut is giving away five ice cube trays. Looks like 2 sets of 2 and a bastard. Wtf? Really? WTF? Can't you buy these at the dollar store? Not only that, I bet you get 2 for $1. I'm weird about stuff like that. I wouldn't want my neighbor's ice cube trays, let alone a complete stranger's. Before we had the ice puking freezer, I used to not like those little crumbs that sometimes found their way into one of the tray's bellies. That sucker went right in the dishwasher. Throw them away, you damn pack rat. I bet you can't even find your husband in the house. He's somewhere under the collection of old TV Guides and concord grape jelly packets from the diner. I know The BurghBlog does an excellent job of mining Craigslist for personal ads. I never fail to laugh at those. I may make more of an effort to include funny free things here.
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It is strange what people will take for free. My mother for some unknown reason kept my original crib, playpen, stroller and a few other things. When my wife got pregnant she dragged these things down from the attic and offered them to us. Needless to say these items would bring immediate lawsuits if sold on the open market today. We politely declined, so she put them down at the end of her driveway - you know, the "free" zone. Within an hour someone was picking them up to take home. My mother went out to help them and mentioned that we were reluctant to take them - the womans response? "He survived, didn't he?"
You white people amaze me. Afraid to use ice cube trays and playpens from the 70s.
The person who said "He survived, didn't he?" was right. Holy macanoli, we try to legislate safety so now kids get shot in school. I'm not saying to taunt fate, but I am saying that lots of people rode bikes without helmets and are still alive.
And Fan, next time you have a Steeler party (sans the yellow knives) and your ice puking freezer don't puke up enough ice to keep up with the martinis and margaritas. You will be begging Uncle Dog to borrow some of the ice trays he has on top of his fridge in the garage which he keeps for just such emergencies.
my deal wasnt with safety. my main thing was.....if you were going to buy new trays, you would throw the old ones away....you wouldnt give them to somebody and sure as hell wouldnt put them on craigslist!!!!! giving away a crib for free and giving away ice cube trays are two different balls of wax.
plus...i have two fridges and both puke ice! :) i havent run out yet.
The slats on the crib and playpen were wide enough for a kid's head to get between. I'm pretty sure that they were moved closer together because a child was injured or killed - I'd rather not take that chance.
Secret ice cube trays are not the worst idea I've ever heard in my life. I wish I was much more richer so that I could buy an automatic ice maker and revel in its decadence.
I never accept anything free, because I always have the shittiest luck and would probably contract some blood-borne illness from a shelf or other piece of garbage.
Christ, I can't believe I said "much more richer".
1. I keep my old trays cause only my kitchen fridge pukes ice and, though it's only 2 years old, the ice puker will invariably be the first component to malfunction.
2.I keep my old trays 'cause, well, if you're having a REAL party you're always in danger of running out of ice. Shoot, I pratically owe Fan a bottle of Jose Cuervo and it was only me!!
3. I keep my old trays 'cause I too wishes I was more richer so's I cud have me two (or 3) ice pukin' fridges. But I aint.
4. I keep my old trays 'cause it gives my wife something else to scold me for.
But if I was going to get rid of them. I'd give them to Fan, just to piss him off.
Just look for the tag: "No babies were killed by the spacing of these slats or any other device or attachment herein. It is the expressed responsibility of the owner/buyer to ensure that all safety precautions, legal or illegal, are taken prior to placing a living human inside. This tag should not be removed under penalty of the law." Then we can all sleep at night... until our children get to school.
i wish i was much more richer as well!
i see both sides of this minor disagreement. my dad remembered fondly one day when i was pissing around getting my daughter's car seat in PERFECTLY when she was a baby how they drove is to connecticut basically by throwing a crib mattress in the backseat of a car and putting us on it. yeah, we lived, but that doesnt mean you'd do it today knowing what we know. nor would you put a 3 year old in the front seat of a car...something that was done all the time back in the day. we all lived, but how many of us lived through a bad wreck?
all i wanted to do was poke fun at the dude giving away 5 mismatched ice trays!
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