We drop off our trash and recycling each week at the town drop off site. While we were city-folk in Austin, TX and Denver, CO, it never occurred to us that some people actually have to take their garbage somewhere. Imagine that! And now we are those “some people”. I could write a new version of “City Mouse and the Country Mouse.” The city mouse would be holding his nose during the garbage run. As do we.
At our garbage site, people leave unwanted but useable items in a certain spot and those are up for grabs. Leave what you don’t want, grab what you do. Yesterday during the weekly garbage run, Jeff brought home this vintage chalkboard out of the swap pile. I love that it has a ledge for the chalk.
I leaned it against a window to take a quick photo but it later found a more permanent home.
In the two years we’ve been here, we’ve found several other great finds from the swap pile. These three locally made rocking chairs were also free for the taking!
Hi, Angie, nice to meet you, thanks for stopping by! I love your state.
Thanks for the warm welcome, Rhoda! And thanks for popping by here.
You are so right, Nancy! My man brings me back a stack of magazines now and then.
Pam, how fun that you may have the same chalkboard. Like you mentioned, my parents and grandparents would sometimes burn their trash. Since we take the recycling in already, we figure it’s easy to take the trash as well. Plus safer with kids.
Thanks, Monica, for stopping by! One downfall of living rurally is the yard sales aren’t quite as easy to get to. So there are trade offs!
I live in the sticks too. We haul our recycling 30 miles to the recycling center (we combine with our trip to town). We call the recycling bin our library and we pull all sorts of great reading material out of the paper bin. Free stuff is the best – I can’t believe someone got rid of that chalkboard. Too cool!
I think I have that same chalkboard. It was in my Mom’s house when i was little. Mine has little hanging tabs on the back and I have it hung in my son’s room.
We used to have to burn our trash in my small hometown, but never had to drive it anywhere.
That chalkboard is wonderful and so are the chairs. I wish we had a swap area like that in my neighborhood. :)