SHARING THE FINDS TRASH TO TREASURE

 Regular readers know that I have a favorite place to look for bargains...our downstairs trash area!  Our building has trash chutes on every floor and they feed into a separate room, but for boxes and other things that people can't put in the chute, there is an area (indoor) near the loading dock where people can put the things they don't want.  I've found quite a few cool items over the last few years.

This post will be a bit different though because we didn't want you all to think we just fill our place up with stuff we find.  Quite the contrary, more often than not, we don't keep what we find, we look and think, we don't have a use for that but while they may not be something we'll use, we'll gladly share with friends and coworkers who might want them.

I'll usually text or email a picture and say "hey, do you want this ______ that we found?"

Here are a few:

Found this white laminated coffee table. It was very sturdy and well put together.  It's not really something we could use but I couldn't let it go if someone else could use it.  So, I asked a friend of ours and he said "yep, I'll take it".  He is currently using it as a coffee table in his contemporary styled office.

Then I found this recently.  It's a very pretty artificial wisteria tree.  Pretty, but definitely not our style.  I texted a coworker and she replied "yes, I'll take it!" It's now residing in a corner of her bedroom which happens to be decorated in pink and purple.  Win/win!

And lastly I found this wicker hamper.  Again, not something we could use (we already have two) but a friend wanted it and it is currently in their laundry room serving its purpose.

Someone else's trash is another person's treasure!