Craigslist Crazies

I have a great aunt that would think someone might want these. She's 83. There is something fascinating to me about what other people think might be useful to someone. Saying that is a stretch as this actually might be useful to someone. However, to trade emails and then arrange to go pick this up....with gas hovering at $4.00 per gallon is all kinds of loony. Stay tuned for next week when Crazy Aunt Bea posts in the CL Free Ads "I have for free 37 yellow cheeseburger wrappings from McDonald's. Some have slight ketchup remnants and others (while stain free) smell of onions. Several are wrinkled and folded but most were able to be straightened out through ironing them. It seems a shame to throw them away as I bet they would make beautiful paper flowers that could be hot-glued to green pipe cleaners. Serious inquiries only please."

Free Craigslist Posted In Wrong Section

Shouldn't this be in the Personal Ads? Come on! Clearly, this is as planned out as sitting in a toilet stall and doing something which will alert the patron in the stall next to you that you want to get.....kinky. I'm tempted to go on CL and post an ad in the Free area for "Huge Collection of Bette Midler and Barbara Streisand LPs". Hi, my name is Melvin and I'm moving (in & out) in a few weeks and I simply must get rid of these old dusty LPs. If you want, we can listen to them together first before I pack them up for you.

Who do you think you're fooling, Nancy?

Plenty Of Woods

I would like plenty of woods for the winter...or summer.....fall too.....ok, spring too.

Free Craigslist Items

Slow weekend for free stuff in my area. All I could find was this poor deer and this weird ad. It almost makes me think the Cheerios ad is a signal to someone. "hey jimmy, he posted the cheerios, we can go get the body now........".

Advertise C's For More Dating

I'm sure Still A Dog would not object to this being given away on Craigslist for free. Heck, he'll be right over to pick it up. Geez lady, what are you thinking? What better way to open yourself up for some freaking whack job! He emails you posing as a woman, sets a time to pick up the item and then who knows what? Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Throw the damn thing away or sell it on Ebay where you can ship it out.

Wanted: Companionship

Wow. Some people are in serious need of companionship. Witness. My God. I can't imagine anyone cruising Craigslist for free items and stopping on this ad, dropping everything, and rushing out to go get free expired salad dressings. Do you need human contact so bad that you want to trade emails and meet a stranger just so you can give them salad dressing instead of just throwing it away? If she thinks it's still good enough to eat, why the french toast doesn't she just eat it? Gawd! If you do choose to go get it, don't let any of her 37 cats out when she opens the door to let you in. You also might want to rent and watch Misery before you go pick this up. I'm just sayin.....

Free Alpo From Poor Speller

Ninetein Wurds. Fyve Mispeld.

Can You Count?

The stuff under the free link on Craigslist continues to amaze me and I only ever look locally. Just think what's out there globally. Why doesn't this person know exactly how many are available? And why does it bother me that they don't know?

Code?

This seems a bit odd to me. No, not because he can't spell "Hilfiger", this is free stuff remember. Doesn't it almost seem like a weird code, like the politician who got caught in the airport stall. Didn't he tap a newspaper and then put his hand under the stall wall or something? There are many exclusive clubs and fraternities and folks who share a healthy interest of the same thing that feel each other out first by saying something in code. "Are you holding?" is a good one. "Do you party?" comes to mind. "Would you like to come to my apartment and pick up a free pair of Tommy shorts size 34?" sounds like another one to me. I think whomever shows up to get them will not be surprised that the owner is IN the shorts when he gets there. Not that there's anything wrong with that...... Dude doesn't even say if they are new or used....soiled or soil free....... I get giving clothes away. We give clothes to a Church thrift store in 30 gallon trash bags. If I get an item I didn't want, or it didn't fit, or I didn't like it....in the bag it goes until the bag is full. I just can't wrap my head around dealing with strangers and email for 3 days over a pair of shorts (which is worth a lot more than used ice cube trays, btw). I'll still hold firm that if I want extra ice cube trays for a party....I'll buy 2 for .99 before I go pick up used ones from a stranger. Wolf!

Is There A Doctor in the House?

I don't know about you, but I don't want a cardiologist working on me who doesn't know how to use the word bound. And if I happen to be wrong, and you can use it like that....well, what do you want - I'm not a heart surgeon!

Free Booty From Craigslist

Does any family of Joan Crawford live local to Philly?

Mining Craigslist

I just love looking at Craigslist's free items for my neck of the woods. Check this one out. It probably created a frenzy. Why people can't just throw this stuff out is beyond me. When I clear clutter, I clear clutter. I can't believe that someone would even start their car up to go get these. If I needed an empty one, I would just pick up a full one the next time I was out and then wipe my tushy with wet ones for the next few weeks.

Free Stuff

Ew...I mean really.

Sheet Yeah

Again, I just find it amusing that someone would take the time to list 1 fitted sheet for a full size bed. Now, maybe if it was a queen........ If you're getting $5 for it, maybe list it - but if you are getting $0 for it, why bother. Please make me understand.

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.