Has anyone ever given shit away for free on craiglist? It's insane. I've figured out to how unload so much of my garbage without putting any effort into it.
I typically accumulate some scrap metal, not enough to care about though. Just plop that shit at the end of your driveway, post it up, and it's gone in no time. I've found out the hard way, DON'T post your damn phone number, you will get calls up the asshole.
I just had my best give away ever. I just took over a small building to open my own computer repair shop, it's been used as storage for our family business for a while, so there was a ton of stuff in it. Yesterday I went down with some people, and we made a huge pile of kitchenware that no one wanted (accumulated stuff from several of our restaurants.) It wasn't bad stuff, but I had no use for it. Basically it was the kind of stuff that you would donate to good will or something rather than throwing away. However I had enough that it would be a pain in my ass to haul it over.
So I decided to put that shit up on CL and see if anyone would want it, maybe take some bulk out so I don't have to take as many trips to goodwill. Lesson learned before, I said it was all free, come between 5pm and 7pm and take what you want, first come first serve. I figured people would trickle in and take some of it off my hands and I could work on cleaning up the building in the mean time.
I pulled in at 4:40pm because I had nothing better to do. There was a fucking mob of at least 30 people waiting outside the doors for me to open. I opened the front door, and people flew in like I was giving away free money. It was like black fucking friday at best buy at 6am. People were toppling over each other grabbing boxes of stuff and just running.
I started to panic a bit because they were going outside the "free zone" and looking at my other shit. I was constantly yelling at people that the only free stuff was in that pile, the rest isn't mine, and I can't give it away.
4:50 pm, everything is gone, and only a few stragglers are left behind just standing around for no reason. Then more people would start coming in looking for the free stuff, and I had to explain it was already gone and thanks for coming. Some lady actually got mad at me because I said I would open the doors at 5pm... I'm like wtf... it's free and people were waiting well before 5pm for it.
I was going to work on the building for a while, but people kept showing up. So I put up a sign saying everything is gone and booked it.
This is what all the fuss was about
Cliff notes: Give shit away for free, and save yourself a lot of work.
I typically accumulate some scrap metal, not enough to care about though. Just plop that shit at the end of your driveway, post it up, and it's gone in no time. I've found out the hard way, DON'T post your damn phone number, you will get calls up the asshole.
I just had my best give away ever. I just took over a small building to open my own computer repair shop, it's been used as storage for our family business for a while, so there was a ton of stuff in it. Yesterday I went down with some people, and we made a huge pile of kitchenware that no one wanted (accumulated stuff from several of our restaurants.) It wasn't bad stuff, but I had no use for it. Basically it was the kind of stuff that you would donate to good will or something rather than throwing away. However I had enough that it would be a pain in my ass to haul it over.
So I decided to put that shit up on CL and see if anyone would want it, maybe take some bulk out so I don't have to take as many trips to goodwill. Lesson learned before, I said it was all free, come between 5pm and 7pm and take what you want, first come first serve. I figured people would trickle in and take some of it off my hands and I could work on cleaning up the building in the mean time.
I pulled in at 4:40pm because I had nothing better to do. There was a fucking mob of at least 30 people waiting outside the doors for me to open. I opened the front door, and people flew in like I was giving away free money. It was like black fucking friday at best buy at 6am. People were toppling over each other grabbing boxes of stuff and just running.
I started to panic a bit because they were going outside the "free zone" and looking at my other shit. I was constantly yelling at people that the only free stuff was in that pile, the rest isn't mine, and I can't give it away.
4:50 pm, everything is gone, and only a few stragglers are left behind just standing around for no reason. Then more people would start coming in looking for the free stuff, and I had to explain it was already gone and thanks for coming. Some lady actually got mad at me because I said I would open the doors at 5pm... I'm like wtf... it's free and people were waiting well before 5pm for it.
I was going to work on the building for a while, but people kept showing up. So I put up a sign saying everything is gone and booked it.
This is what all the fuss was about
Cliff notes: Give shit away for free, and save yourself a lot of work.
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