Junk Furniture and MY NEW AWESOME CHAIR!

Hey Curb Shoppers! Hows it going? I just had my bday recently and that was really fun! I'd like to share some of my finds from these past few days. Most arent very interesting, thats not the point. Eventually you'll find something awesome! And thats what Curb shopping is all about!

My first find was early in the morning, around 6:30am. A slightly used Razor scooter or variant of that kind. I didn't take it because I'm too tall for Razor scooters. If I were to ride one I would have to hunch over which hurts my back. I didn't think a kid left it on a random street corner but who knows, maybe they did. But I kids are weird like that.



I've seen recently a large influx of junk furniture on the streets, although I call it junk furniture, it might be to someones liking, and usually is. However, you'll know when its a good find when you get excited! Even if nobody else does. Here are some couches I found, dirty and really used.  This couch had an interesting spiral rope bottom which caught my eye.



I like the fact that this one is one of those sleeper couches that turns into a bed. Too bad it was too used for me to take.



Couches are nice, but what really gets peoples attention is nicely made wood furniture, which I see nice pieces all the time. Although not nessessarily for me, I'm sure someone out there with a little shoe polish and can do spunk will grab these up and make them an integral part of their homes decor. Like this very well put together entertainment center.



Or this wicker topped coffee table, saw it on the way to get some pizza. Although missing some legs the general structure was left intact, all it would need is a new wicker top and new legs. Then polished and maybe restained. Boom, saved urself the trouble of buying a new one!



Also I find lots of bedroom stuff, mostly matresses that have seen more pounds than the British stock exchange but sometimes I find interesting things that have some use left in therm. For instance here is a Backboard to a bed, it looked very nice and upon closer inspection it wasnt actually made of plastic like I thought but of a thin sheet of marble. WHAT? Thats right! And I like the decal on it, looks like something from ancient Greece.



Ever been laying in bed watching TV and thinking, hey I wish I had something that had a reading light and a back heater and a massager all in one with a couple of armrests! WELL I found one! and no..you cant have it. ITS MINE MUAHHAHAH! And very comfortable. The outer layer as you can see is kinda dirty, but it unzippped off and is washable. Thank goodness.



Now without further delay, MY NEW AWESOME CHAIR!!!





Yeah, I know you want it, I know its something you could have in your house, the spiral wood paneling cuts through your soul! The warm brown leather topping is soft as a mothers touch it caresses your bottom as you sit down in it. Bask in the awesome MC Esher like burning sensation in your mind it creates, how can something so blatently sweet exist? Who created this chair? Some greater being? Aliens? IKEA!? EFF NO!

I'll tell you who made it...the universe. In its infinite quantity of materials and energy, this was created. And placed in my path, for me to hurt my back by taking it home on my folding dolly.



Usually I would sell such an awesome chair, but I'll be making room for this one in my apartment! OH YEAH I know you're jealous!

Have a great FEB guys, let me know if you find anything good, more stuff to come.

Kittens N Bowflex

Hey Fellow curb shoppers its been a while I know  and I'm sorry about that! but Ive got some great stuff for you! You can expect some interesting things coming up!

Firstly, I found this speaker left outside in the same place where I got my dresser, and keeping to the curb shopping code section 106 POINT 3, which states “Upon finding a whole stereo, one should take the stereo and one speaker to signify that the other speaker is taken when it actually is left behind.” Mainly cuz the common curbshopper has only 2 arms and a stereo is just too much to carry with 2 speakers and the main stereo part.

A few days later I came across the very pink scenery picture while coming back from work. It didn’t match my décor so I left it where it laid. If you come across something that is interesting but it just isn’t you… or anyone you know… leave it. Because a curb shopper is never greedy. And one curb shoppers ‘meh’ is another curb shoppers “Huzzah!”

Which brings me to this months Huzzah moment! I found a Bowflex sport in my works junkpile! Most of the parts were there, except one piece that I’m still trying to track down. But around 93% was there! Apparently a department was throwing it out and it caught my eye. After checking with my supervisor and my supervisors supersvisor, and making sure it was being thrown out. I happily began taking the pieces little by little. Now I have the perfect Bday gift for my gym enthusiastic girlfriend! It’s a smaller home variant of the huge one in the commercials with the Rambo cut lookin dudes. Anyway, this is by far my greatest find in monetary value, Original Price $1200 or somewhere around there.

After a few trips of parts and sweat and pain I reassembled it back together. Doesnt it look sweet! I even fixed some problems on it that were due to the original person putting it together wrong. Which they apparently didnt have a manual. I had aquired one somewhere. And even though its missing parts, it works perfectly for lots of excersizes.

But My absolute cutest fuzziest most meowiest find has to be Blackie Num-Nums. My girlfriend named her. She was a kitten I found in a bush next to a Kmart, it was meowing and meowing. I didn’t have any food and my girlfriend came and we gave it some water. It walked all over the entire car. Adorable! But alas we couldn’t find anyone to take her, and so we searched for an hour using lots of gas to find the animal shelter that was literally 5 minutes from where we found her.

We got attached to little Num-Nums. I wish I could have taken her with me. I think about her from time to time. And I remember what she said to me, “Meow ..Meow …Meow meow." Hope you found a good home Blackie! Sigh...