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> "Bear" gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> In article <6eu910F8tvbdU1@mid.individual.net>, Viva says...

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>>> "Ben newsam" gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:01:43 -0500, "Viva" privacy.net> wrote:
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>>>>>I was silly enough to buy an exercise machine -- half-price
>>>>>from a friend who lost interest -- thinking I could use it inside when
>>>>>bad
>>>>>weather is not conducive to my morning jog/walk/limp. Well, it's boring
>>>>>as
>>>>>hell and I hate it more than she did, and have put it out by the street
>>>>>twice, once with a for sale sign and once without...but no takers. ;)

>>>>
>>>> Of course the only people who see it are walking past, and that means
>>>> they're fit enough already.
>>>>

>>> Hahaha...you have a point. There is this one little elder man who drives
>>> an
>>> old pickup truck round at dawn on trash days to see what people throw
>>> away.
>>> I spoke with him briefly as I was walking one morning. He told me he
>>> repairs
>>> fans, furniture, bicycles, lamps, etc. and sells them.
>>>
>>> But even he didn't take my Power Rider! Not much call for them I
>>> suppose....

>>
>> There was a guy on one of the cable channels (History IIRC) a few years
>> back, who had furnished his entire home, every room, with stuff he found
>> in skips and on dumps. And it was nice stuff too, and his interior
>> decoration, though somewhat eclectic, worked beautifully. As he himself
>> said "I've got loads of time on my hands, so I've got the time to go
>> looking", which matches my own theory that time and money are fairly
>> interchangeable.
>> --

> I think I remember seeing that program. My elder aunts used to go to the
> city dump and collect things to repair and give to family newlyweds. They
> had plenty of time on their hands too. Their specialty was wooden furniture,
> they loved to sand, varnish and paint.