WISH I HAD A TRUCK!

There are just some days fellow curb shoppers that you feel like you really need a truck! Theres just sooooo many cool things out there that you just can't carry it all!

Well I, the King of Curb Shopping, am here to tell you. I find myself thinking the exact same thing. In todays blog I'm going to show you some of the great finds I have found recently but have had to pass them up due to circumstances beyond my control...mainly...that I don't have ready access to a truck!

I shall start by showing you a series of pictures of items that look nice from far away but in reality are very much.... nasty. To which you must agree that calling your buddy Bubba to bring his Bronco would be bad.... BECAUSE some stuff is mean't for the trash. Here are some mirages in the distance that you must wait to call that friend with a truck til you get closer.



It was the red that caught me at first. That deep red, passionate, firey, dangerous. But I got closer and realized it was torn up like a Hollywood movie contract. While it could use a little upholstering and rise to its original blaze of glory that it once had. I didn't have a truck. So I left it be, to its fate. Hopefully one of you out there with the room and a truck picked this potential gem up.



It was the Gold, the Regal nature of this couch that drew me in close. It spoke to me of the times it had with fine lady bums on it, and I listened. However I couldn't take this couch with me, for I was but a peasant, and she was a royal couch. Alas, I had no truck.



I've always liked couches that turned into beds, not for their uncomfortableness when you're on it, either sleeping or sitting. But for the bravery it took to try and be more than just a Futon. This one was DIRTAY! but it had a softness and charm like never before seen outside of Target's furniture dept. It was never to be this couch and I. The truck.....never showed up.

And now I'll show you stuff that I actually wished I had a truck(and apartment room) for.


Firstly I'd like to show you some of the nice couches I've found. To offset the bad ones I just showed you, they usually toss them out on their short stubby legs as a set, especially when they exchange newness for comfortablility.



This couch screamed, "I'm soft sit on me!" and it had a partner too, but I was in a hurry. I often think of this couch...when I look at the picture I took of it. I was surprized to see the cushin still on it. Must have been a fresh Curbing.





A fine set, couch and loveseat, with throw pillows to boot! But without a truck these fine specimins wouldn't ever see the inside of my apartment. However I believe they were made for a house, and my apartment is much to small for their Grand nature. OH and there were some plastic hangers there too.



Like the green of a mallard duck. Don't you agree! This chair tried to go with me but just couldn't make it. Had it for a little while, but still debating if it was for me.



If a trekie had a truck he would find this chair and turn it into a captains chair on the bridge of the USS ...something... However it did have nice tabley thingys on the side and rollers on the bottom, and it reclined, but the creepy medical nature of this chair made me stay away truck or no truck.



OHHH I really wish I had a truck for this one! Just look at those lines, that color, fantastic workmanship! However my house isn't in the 1600s so I left this where it stood.

And finally I always save the best for last, Imagine summer... hot dogs, warm air, cool breeze, conflicting descriptions, the grill....grilling. YES A GRILL!!!!



Does it work? WHO GIVES A FLYING SQUIRREL! ITS A HUGE KENMORE GASSSS GRILL!!!



This is what I really wish I had a truck for, where would I put it? I don't know. Who would help me get propane? King of the Hill...

Anyway, that is all. Enjoy your warm days and cool nights....while they last... soon its gonna be HOT DAYS WITH HOT NIGHTS AND HOT INBETWEENS AND GAAHHHHHH I NEED A FAN!

AYE HP LOVECRAP.. er....I mean I love FINDING STUFF.

Well fellow Curb Shoppers its been a while! I know. You missed me. I missed you too.

I've had so much on my plate recently that I couldn't get away and do my blog I love so very very much.

But I'm here now and home sick and since I'm stuck in bed having liquids coming out of my face regularly i figured why not be productive.

March was a goooooddd month for Found on the Curb. I found LOOOOTTSSS of stuff. But not much of it went to my apartment as it now seems I'm running clear out of room!

Which brings me to another point I would like to make to all you fellow curb shoppers! Clutter. Don't let it happen to you! If you have no place for that couch then you have no place for it. Don't drag it home and expect to lean it in the corner and wait for your other couch to break in half.

Found on the curbers should be upward and onward kind of people. Find better stuff than what you got, you must know if I found a coffee table better than my current one(doubtful) I would take it home and my current coffee table would be out on the curb as the great circle of curb shopping. To let you know what I mean the first item I'm showing you used to belong to me.



Yes...this was once my entertainment center! Filled with my tv, dvds, and videogame systems it lasted me until i got my behemoth of desk/entertainment centers to replace it. I promptly placed my old entertainment center outside and within the hour it was snatched up by some close neighbor, because not ten paces and a year later it came BACK!

Now you get a real glimpse on how this works. Here are a few items that I DIDN'T take with me.



This TV was huge, and really heavy. and even if I needed a new TV I would have gotten my folding dolly instead of carrying this thing home. Most people are just throwing out their old tube TVs for their nice slick fancy flat screens.



I dont know why people would need these things, when a Brita Filter would serve the same purpose. I didn't take this water dispensor because I dont want to lug those huge jugs of water around and spill it all over the friggin place when I try to replace it finally. Oh well...




I must apologize for the picture, my camera phone isn't good at taking night pictures. However this was a reallllllyyy coool find. Late at night walking home. It came with a note attached and the note said, "Free Big screen TV, it works, but the screen is all blurry. and you have to fix that." and if I were the Hulk I would have picked it up and taken it home. but alas. I have not the muscle mass for such a feat. Therefore I left it where it lay, I havn't gone back that way but I've seen what happens to TVs like that in my neighborhood... Eviceration.

Those are things I didn't take home. Now I would like to show you the things that I did end up taking home.



Very very nice rollerbag, brand new even sitting on top of a dumpster. Who would throw something so new away? Rich people thats who. Inside hadn't even been used zippers still closed, and no smell of anykind, except for the new roller bag smell. Very fancy and will replace my day tripper bag, which has a broken handle and is just messed up in so many ways.



I used to sell vaccums, and the same with firearms people just don't clean them regularly to keep them from breaking. I found this nice double cylinder dirt devil sitting all alone near a trash can on the curb. Looking for all intensive purposes brand new on the outside. So I opened it up and found the problem in seconds. clogged, with who knows what, if this vaccum was a heart, I...dont even wanna think about it! The HORROR! The HORROR!!! After it was unclogged and checked. Turned right on and began doing its job. Good vaccum for free, all it needed was a little work. To which it replaced my crappy little vaccum that is on its last leg. 8 years old...wow!



And finally for the coup de grais(I don't care how you spell it) I found this computer near the enterence to the Red Line, stripped of its hard drive, and power supply, the inside was a mess. Cables everywhere and the heat sink to the CPU ripped off. A sad day, but good thing I found it, I gave it to a good friend of mine who fixes computers in his spare time. In return he did some work on one of my computers. A good trade.

Upwards and Onwards. Thats what you should be thinking.

PS...



I also found what I believe to be a Nintendo DS power cord... which I had no use for so I gave it to a coworker for their sons DS. Ain't I nice?

So keep your eyes peeled out there, and dont let your eyes become bigger than your apartments. Otherwise you might drown in junk!