The Day a WHOLE City Moves (& the TREASURES it leaves behind): Curbside Scavenging 2023
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2023
- Join me for some curbside archeology, and find some AMAZING treasures just dumped on the side of the road, because when 70,000 households move on the same day, chaos and garbage ensue (ideal conditions for finding some treasures)! Taking recycling to the next level, I cruise Montreal on foot, by bike and by car to dig through garbage piles all over the city and round up some amazing treasures!
Learn what Moving Day is, when and how it started, and why it turns the entire city upside down... oh yea, and see what goodies I can find!
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The entire concept of the whole city moving on the same day sounds chaotic and perfect at the same time. You found a lot of great things!!!
Thank you!! :-D :-D
Most college towns have a "moving day". In my town we call it Hippie Christmas.
Hippie Christmas... love that! I go out trolling around with my friend's dad, who lives right next door to a campus, cuz we both love sifting through all the discarded dorm/apartment debris (and it's a private uni, so lots of good stuff)!!
Moving day sounds like a dream for us fellow foragers, that handsewn quilt is quite the treasure! Thanks for sharing your moving day adventure.
You're very welcome, thanks for watching!!
Okay, the scavenging content was fun and fascinating, but can we just talk about your clever girl turning the water park on on her own? 😍
It’s been a few times that we show her the button and try to get her to turn it on, but it’s a finicky button, hard even for humans to turn on, so it was very fun when she managed it!!
Phillippa Gregory is a good writer
Taking couch covers for the velvet is so smart 🤯
I LOOOOVE that little corgi butt!!❤ It’s so refreshing to see a corgi that isn’t grossly overweight. What a sweet little girl !
Yes, we like to keep her nice and trim 🥰
Similar happenings in major college towns like Ann Arbor Michigan when dorm rooms empty out for the summer break. My sister found a working computer and reems of paper still in original packaging.
A computer? Gee... And so many people go without, too!
OK, that's impressive! The flat screen TV in our living room is also from the side of the road - it just had a minor electronic glitch that was easily fixable!
Boston has "Allston Christmas" with ~70% of leases begin September 1, and most of the people moving are college students.
We don't have a specific day but lots of people will just put a bunch of items outside then post their address on local facebook groups, sometimes I'm amazed at what nice stuff is being given away!
Greetings from Berkeley where the post-graduation street score is an absolute feast. I used to live in Davis and it was the same. Definitely a college town thing. :)
Yup. I lived in Berkeley, CA for many years. May was always a great time to upgrade furniture. :)
Aw man that orange lamp 🧡😭
Right?! So fun! (although I admit, I'd probably have painted it, just to match our living room a bit more)
Man, Canadian cities seem like such great places to live, they seem like they were built with residents in mind and to promote quality of life.
Really depends on where you are, unfortunately the majority of Canadian cities are nearly as bad as US cities. Certain parts of Montreal are one of the few exceptions. Not Just Bikes is a fantastic city planning channel that talk a LOT about walkability and good vs. bad city design, and he's originally from London, Ontario (a city he rants about on a regular basis). Great channel, highly recommend!!
@@ShannonMakes Shannon, I'm not far from London to the point many specialist appointments are made through London. I CANNOT stand driving in London!! My son actually lived there for 5 years for university and the only good thing, there are two Value Villages to choose from! lol
Two! When the daughter was down there I only remember 1. Salvation army had a bit bad store there as well
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 one out by the 401 off of Wellington Rd and the second on Dundas (hwy 2) st on the east end of town. They have a few other second hand stores including new-ish Goodwill book stores in the last ten years or so!
@@cecilehoare3053 yeah I keep forgetting how much time has passed. She went to London after high school and that was a good number of years ago. These days I don’t go much past Woodstock. They have a wonderful Len’s Mills store that I go and ogle maybe drool as well. So many pretty fabrics!
I think you created a new urban phrase: waste archeology😂❤!! I'm with you, at 7 mos pregnant, I saw a young man throwing boxes of what looked like VINTAGE FABRIC! I found boxes of quilts not completed (so fun!), and lots of scraps!! I still have much of it - 36 years later😅🎉! Hugs Shannon & Phil;)
Love it!!
The suburbs of Minneapolis have annual clean up days where folks can put out anything for garbage collection. I loved those weekends when I lived there, tho to be honest, I indulged in regular alley shopping in the city proper, as they allowed folks to put out large items anytime. 20 years later, I still have antique furniture I picked up then.
We have a "Reuse Rendezvous" once or twice a year. Residents are encouraged to put boxes of gently used goods for people to come by and take as needed. I find searching for stuff fun and it's great to put out things that are still in good shape without having to garage sale it.
In Boston, it’s referred to as 'Alston Christmas' when the college kids arrive/rotate in September. The local news channels often do a story on it.
Love that!! A few comments here mentioning the Alston Christmas! 🗑🎄
I think your videos are the only ones that don't even make it to my to watch later list these days, I just watch them immediately 😊
Wow, that’s such an amazing compliment, thank you so much!! 🥰🥰🫶
Dang this really makes me miss living in a walkable/bike-able city. When I lived in Santa Cruz (California) the streets during the summertime were a treasure trove from the combination of upper-middle-class homeowners & the annual exodus of students from the nearby university.
Walkable city is the main reason I love Montreal. I hate cars, and much prefer walking or biking... so much nicer (and better for long term health, generally speaking)
My daughter lived in Montreal for 5 years and i helped her move a number of times, we used a wheel barrow, shopping cart and our truck to move her from one house to another. Moving day is amazing chaos!
Amazing chaos is right!
The black top hat cams are for the 400 & 500 series Singers. The white ones are for the 600 series.
Ooooh, thank you, that’s good to know - I need to find someone with those machines, as mines from the 300 series
@@ShannonMakes if you know someone with one of those series, they will be grateful. The whole set gets expensive.
How much would you sell the sewing cams for?
If I were there...I most definitely would be cruising the streets! Sometimes a person can be lucky enough to find usable items put out by the road in some of our towns in the rural area of East Texas. If time allows, I always stop to pursue the possibilities!
Oh wow, the orange lamp was awesome, I would have figured some way to get it home.
I can only imagine the traffic jams that must ensue, with all those moving trucks parked on the streets as people are loading and unloading their goods. 😱
Yes, the traffic can be just HORRIBLE!
@@ShannonMakes ...cause Montreal traffic isn't hellish enough on a normal day...
I'm an absolute curbside trash ho (Runs in the family. My grandpa was one too. lol), so this would be my favourite day/week of the year. Sounds like heaven.
Total heaven!!!
Fun! We don’t have anything like that where I’m at. I used to dumpster dive a lot, and was one of my favorite outings lol. But the county put a shed at each green box site and they guard the garbage, no dumpster diving for many years now. It’s so sad all the things that could be diverted from the landfill, and it’s sickening to have our tax dollars go to a person guarding what people discard. Occasionally on a Sunday I’ve gotten lucky and the guard wasn’t there. I wish they had a specific covered area that people could put things that are still useable. We do have a clearance thrift store here, a branch of the main thrift store. They have bins of things. You can get a basket of stuff for $5, a black garbage bag full for $10. Single items are like .10-.50 or so. It’s such a blessing and one of my favorite things to do while in town.
If I lived in Montreal I'd definitely be out treasure hunting. We always picked up stuff by the side of the road with my mother - she still has some road-side furniture that we picked up 30 years ago.
I'd absolutely love to know if there's a particular legendary item that's been doing the rounds on moving day for the last 50 years that Montrealers know to look out for. Something that someone put out on the curb in the 70s that got picked up, and put out a few years later, only for someone else to pick it up and repeat the cycle for 50 years.
(That would make a fantastic short story - some really distinct object like that green couch - and you could tell the lives of all the different owners of the object over the years during the years that they owned the object. Happy stories of couples starting out, couples getting divorced or starting over again, children playing with/on it, pets taking naps on it, the things that got lost in the couch, etc. )
What a fabulous idea! I recently picked up a plan chest from Facebook marketplace for my threads and notions and art supplies, I looked it up and it was made in the 1930’s , for the last few years it had belonged to the sellers elderly farmer uncle, he had horses and it had horse gear, tools and gun parts in it and I love that it has history and that it has held many items and served many people and businesses over its 93 or so years xx
omg, that's such a lovely and whimsical idea, I absolutely love it, and I would LOVE somebody to write that story... I'd sure read it (even better if I found it in a little free library)!!
That's super cool, love that you were able to find a bit about it's history!
thx for the walk down memory lane
If I was in Montreal, I would definitely be out on Moving Day! You have some great finds. Oh and your fur baby is super cute!
Thank you!!
In the USA but I love this idea of communal sharing in a sense. Allowing the things one no longer needs to be taken by the one who does need them or has a use for them with zero cost or zero ties. A complete letting go, moving on, and recycling. If I was you, I would invest in a little cart on wheels for adventures such as this!
IF I was there, you better believe it I would go out.
If I had at house, I would do exactly guys did. How fun and all of the treasures that you can find. I know around the big towns people will leave things out for others or the garbage. Happy hunting!❤
Oh, that quilt!
Right?! So beautiful!!
New subscriber from the GTA in southern Ontario. Your house purchase came up in my feed on UA-cam and I love it! Editing and posting videos takes time, keep up the great work!
In our area of the Midwest US, many communities have a “community yard sale” where homes have their yard sales at the same time. It makes for a pretty cool event. The following days/week is “large trash pick up day” and people leave their leftovers on the roadsides and treasure hunters go about. I have picked up some cool stuff for free and have left a lot of things out for others.
Very fun!!
In Boston, it's September 1st. Particularly because Boston is a college town. They call it Allston Christmas. (Allston being a neighborhood of Boston with a high percentage of students)
Your finds are much higher quality than a bunch of students leave behind
Also a common event is Storrowing. Named after a famously low clearance bridge, it means to ram your truck into an overpass or bridge because you thought the cars only sign was just a suggestion.
You're not the first to mention Allston Christmas (although you were the first to give the etymology, so I thank you extra for that)... sounds like so much fun!
Living next to a campus is SO good on at the end of the school year... I go out trolling around with my friend's dad, who lives next to one, cuz we both love sifting through all the discarded dorm/apartment debris (and it's a private uni, so lots of good stuff)!!
ahahaha I have not thought about that bridge in years!
I was coming to the comments to basically make this same comment so thanks!
C’est aussi la tradition de remercier les amis qui aident à déménager en faisant livrer de la pizza et de la poutine pour tout le monde !!
une tradition universelle, je crois 🍕🍻💪
It's just sad when those same friends get older and can't justify throwing out their back for free pizza and beer anymore! Surely, I'm not that old yet! 😂
A hope those folks who really need these items have access and know about this.
In my state we have a city wide neighborhood cleanup that’s putting anything you don’t want on the curb and either letting the trash or other people pick it up. We drive around every year to see the find goodies!
So nice!!!
What an interesting phenomenon. People leave items on the curb around here sometimes and I have gotten several nice pieces of furniture to upcycle. Just got a little tale the other day. But it's so cool that you found such a diverse selection of items. That velvet was nice, and the quilt! It amazes me what people just throw away sometimes.
Yea, so many good things get thrown away, it's kinda nuts! My entire living room is pulled from the curb. I was looking at it the other day, and realized that there wasn't even anything thrifted in there, it was literally all free... 😳
Haven't been to Montreal (yet). I live in a college town so the first of every month the street score is pretty good but 1 June (usually two weeks after graduation) it's exceptional. With enough time and patience and some helping hands you could absolutely furnish an entire apartment with what you find on the sidewalks. But my favorite street score/moving day story was years ago, helping a buddy move out of a place and a family was moving in down the hall. They saw us moving the furniture (we were either going to take it to donate or leave outside, can't remember) and they took it all! No stairs required which was great because that was a fifth floor apartment with no elevator. On another note, as a Californian, I'm fascinated that the large appliances (fridge, stove, washer, and dryer) don't come with the apartments. Everywhere I've lived here it's part of the lease.
Oh yea, my entire living room/kitchen area (short of the actual appliances, and even a couple of those) are furnished entirely off the streets. Not even thrifted in a secondhand shop, but actually 100% free. It's NUTS.
Also, huzzah for not having to move all that furniture out of the building... that's fantastic. And it's not unusual at all to have to bring your own appliances in many of the countries I've lived in Europe. Kinda annoying, but also kinda great that you don't get stuck with total shit appliances!
I've lived all over the US. To my understanding, kitchens MUST be furnished with stove / oven and fridge to be considered rentable. I've never seen any listing of an apartment or house that didn't. When we purchased a house, we had to pick out a fridge, but the stove, oven, and dishwasher were already installed. Washers and dryers can be hit or miss - we've carried our own set through the last few rental houses.
Not that way here is Montreal, and it’s not uncommon in Germany either, for “unfurnished” to mean FULLY unfurnished
I love this sneak peak into a to different culture that would be absolute second hand heaven to me!
Thank you!!
Shannon, your videos are ridiculously fun to watch. You could be a professional! I am also a scavenger and am often amazed at the things that people throw away. I have also renovated an old house, circa 1901. It wasn't as distressed as yours, but it took us 9 years. I wish you well in this project and wish I had the means to help financially, but that is not an option. I am a senior, in southern California and am looking forward to watching your journey. Thank you for the giggles!
Shannon, I always look forward to viewing your videos. Thank you for sharing your endeavors.
You are so welcome! So glad you're enjoying them, and thank you for checking out the older videos, there are some good ones there!!
The city looks so gorgeous. Thanks for showing us around, while also picking up some neat pieces.
My pleasure 😊
Ok, just discovered you and want to say how amazing and cute you are! )have never said this about anyone before 😂) I had to come on my phone just to comment and subscribe as was watching you on a tv. Have to say I loved it when you put on your suncream - I screamed you go girl! 😂 👍
But really wanted to say, I live in a country where nothing is left on the streets, we have charity companies and private ones who come and collect your ‘treasure trash’ for free, to be sold in large warehouses.
Anyway, mentioned you to my 25 year old daughter, she is a mini you in the sense foraging for those amazing things. She’s also a fashion designer and she collects all sorts and makes all sorts 😂 she’s done this since she was four! I always loved it and encouraged her to do whatever makes her happy! Anyhow, love and blessings upon you!
Btw THAT orange lamp 😭
❤❤❤
There definitely are people that go out with large trucks and collect stuff to sell privately, but in a city of 2 million people (and lots of congestion in the streets on these days, with everyone moving), it's quite hard for them to get everything, so there's lots left to private individuals, thankfully!!
@@ShannonMakes oh wow, you even had time to reply to my message filled with grammatical errors - so sorry but amended now with the help of 🤓 💕
My mom had a Singer machine with those cams. They’re for various stitches, a precursor to sewing machines with computers. If I remember correctly, there was even one for embroidered letters.
I love treasure hunting. Here in Berlin people also put things on the street, but on more random days. Sundays we sometimes go out and check out bixes in out neighbourhood.
Do you have any specific places/areas in Berlin where you go for some hunting? Here in the South of Berlin I find those kind of boxes very rarely. 🤔
@@sophieb.1287 I always found a lot (especially furniture) in Wedding/Gesundbrunnen
@@linemonssi4108 Thank you very much 😊
I found more in areas whith family houses, but maybe it's just my area 😄
@@mellisartandcrafts As soon as I have a Sunday off, I'll check this out. 😁
Thank you so much, so interesting. Montreal looks beautiful, and what a fun tradition; so cool that recycling and re-using is given esteem in your city. Loved the video, as always. Take care, be well
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching! 🫶
The cams are for the Singer Golden Touch and Sew from the early 70's. I got mine in 1973. It was before you could just touch a button to get decorative stitches.
I used to work at a library and we had to have special training on how to handle items that had been returned with bed bugs. It scared the life outta me 😅
Even books 😳😳Oof 🙁
Does this really happen in one day?! That sounds super overwhelming...!
It absolutely does! I mean, obviously some people move the days before or after, but most move on the 1st!
I find it quirkily reassuring that, even in the face of globalization, cities maintain some distinct customs and weird traditions. And I admire your restraint. My husband would have been prying my claws off so much stuff. Me: "Look! An orange floor lamp / green sofa / [add long list of other stuff you nobly passed up]!" Husband: "Noooooooo! Back away from the stuffed ostrich / tiger castration kit / grand piano with missing keys!" etc. What a great way to spend a day!😂
@@BeMoreBarnaby to be fair that's a nice way of putting it! Also I'm sort of understanding a little better about the cultural differences here - I'm England it feels a bit more risky picking up rejected items, just because we don't have an actual day where this is acceptable !
Yes it does really happen lol the entire province of qc moving day is july 1 lol
Yes yes it does really happen that specific day lol... the only province in Canada to have this spesific day for renting dates lol...
Wow the quilts were a great find. Not a bad haul considering the weather. When we lived in Ottawa I remember seeing news stories about moving day.
Yea, I'm sure it would have been even better if 1.) it hadn't rained, and 2.) I could have gone out in the few days following as well... still not bad though
Reminds me of Berkeley ca, where I lived for almost 40 years. Every day was “moving day”. I walked everywhere (the gym, grocery store, etc); and I always took an empty backpack with me to pick up any useful items left on the sidewalk (bags of clothes-sometimes new with tags still attached, and anything else that one could want or imagine.
Love that!
Never heard of moving day but I can see me participating one way or the other if I lived there. Thanks for sharing, awesome video and adorable Corgi. L&L 2U
Thanks for watching!
Ashland, Ohio has a spring clean-up every April. They divide the town into quadrants and each has one week to put their stuff out free of charge. It's so fun to look for treasures and it became a family event! Often, we would take good stuff we couldn't use and donate it to a thrift store because the trash trucks and metal scrappers pick up often.
That's amazing!!
I live in the USA and i do the same thing here😊
Love that!
I love those curvy staircases. When I saw them this summer on our way to a LARP event north of Montreal all I could think of was how hard moving would be.
Haha it’s really not that bad 😂
I would love moving day!
I wish we had moving day in Australia. I'd definitely be out there!
love that!!!
If I was there I would find some way to get that orange lamp home, obsessed
It’s becoming the unexpected superstar of the video!! 🧡🧡🧡🛋️
I live in a college town in the US and every semester we have “Riff Raff” where we can put out anything for trash. It’s amazing the things people throw away
Ahhh, I love the name! Riff Raff!
This is fascinating, je suis née au Québec - but I had never heard of this before. Moving day....for an entire city, chaotic for sure!
I remember the treasure finds from college moving days. Good times.
YESSSS!! Living next to a campus is SO good on at the end of the school year... I go out trolling around with my friend's dad, cuz we both love sifting through all the discarded dorm/apartment debris (and it's a private uni, so lots of good stuff)!!
I think it would be really fun to forage! I definitely think though afterwards we would need a very nice quiet tea break. I think the Velvet was one of your best finds. I went out thrifting a few days ago and definitely got a great fabric haul (which had royal blue velvet :o ). I think my only concern would definitely be the bedbugs but I think you made out really really well! Everything is definitely good and usable!
ooooh, royal blue velvet... be still, my beating heart!
@@ShannonMakes How anyone can get rid of velvet is beyond me! I'm going to make myself a Renn Fair dress, I know that you're going to save some for the lining of your train case, but if you can make yourself something fancy, a victorian-style drawstring purse would be really neat with some scraps.
Omg we had bedbugs 2 years ago because they came through the walls from a neighbor's apartment. It was horrific.
Our city's downtown does this on August 14-16 every year. Come on over to Madison, WI, USA.
You need a trailer for the bike on Moving Day! Great Idea.
lol I share a small apartment with 3 other people, I don't want or need a trailer's worth of stuff!
In Florida moving day is after a hurricane hits. This is the first I ever heard of such a thing. Sounds amazing!!!
it IS amazing!!
We used to love coming to Montreal just for this day!!!
❤😊wonderful. This is so fascinating 🧐 and yes if I was there. I would be looking for treasure 😊
Great video
Thank you!!
Well, I'm late on commenting this video, but I really enjoy it! Love the way that you pay hommage to Montréal vibes. I hope that you do another one next summer. Maybe we will meet on a scavenger spot? 😂
P.s. One of the reason for changing the moving date was to not force children to change school so close from the end of the year. It was a huge problem before the 1970's for families who are moving to another city or another partofthe city.
I was born in Montreal but my parents moved back to California when I was about a year old. I've heard stories about the Moving Day chaos.
I lived in Isla Vista for a few years and when UCSB let out for the summer a lot of students moved back home and left an incredible amount of stuff. I found a surfboard an ugly but very comfortable sofa, so many books.
College campuses at the end of term (or beginning) are amazing for this sort of thing too, so true!
England use to have a similar day Michaelmas (September 29th) it was when farm hands had finished the harvest and find new work elsewhere... and normally wealthy people also moved home.
I took part in the MMF (Montréal moving festival) 6 times over 15 years, until we left for the subburb. You are making me nostalgic!...
Nice! 💪
Fun video. Beautiful city.
It really is!
Omg! Ur dog is adorable! I so wish to get a corgi cuz they’re so adorable and well behaved and smart…
They can be, but they definitely do need a TON of exercise in order to stay mentally stimulated and not cause trouble!
In Germany they have a time of year were everyone puts things out on the curb because they don't want to pay tax on it
🤣🤣🤣 omg I love that… how have I never been in Germany for that day when I’ve spent so much time there‽
What a pretty place😊
We have a couple of those Portis racks that add to our closet space. We bought wooden hangers with swivel heads, hang them on the bottom horizontal pole and t-shirts sit almost flat against the wall in the bedroom. We can get about 15 or so shirts on each.
ooooh, nice tip!! thank you
Where i live we just have a routine bulk pickup for Trash, but a lot of people leave really good stuff out and it's normal to see someone with a trailer going around picking stuff up
Nice!
I always check out the donation bags or piles on my walks with my dogs. In fact at this moment I am wearing a dress I made of blue, yellow and white seersucker 5 yards score I found recently. Yes, the fabric is cotton.
Ooooh, that's a fantastic find! LOVE that!!
You know I would totally have been there, if I lived in the vicinity. 😄
My city has a reuse centre, where all usable recycling from the genbrugsstationer gets diverted to. It is only 2 km from where I live. That is very dangerous. 😅 I have to limit my visits.
Montreal looks so... I was going to say Danish, but: European. What a surprise. Is it the French connection?
/Stine
oh my gosh, NOTHING is more dangerous than a good genbruggstation... there were a couple pretty close to our place in KBH, and I literally never left empty handed. SO dangerous!! 🤣 Also, re: European-ness, the area that I live in, the Plateau, is known for being very European... the rest of Montreal is less French and more North American.
It's from a new singer sewing machine from 1972. Electronic machines with all the fancy stitches hasn't been invented yet! The discs slipped and the fancy stitches looked jumpy.
When I was in college I lived at the beach in San Diego and there were alleys everywhere and around the first of the month all sorts of stuff would be in the alley! I furnished my apts over the years but when I moved back to SF I only returned with a dictionary I still have!! In SF we have Recology pickup. When I’m doing a walk and cool stuff is on the curb I post it on my Buy Nothing group (tagged #curbalert but I still have to add NOT MINE. and I still get questions about it!). If I lived in Montreal I would be doing what you do!
I've done that before, posting sidewalk finds of other people (and yes, they still ask questions even if I mark it as not mine 🤣)
Always nice to see content from Quebec… and yes, unfortunately, if you ask me, moving day is a thing here!
I used to live in a really bohemian area with lots of college students and 20-somethings, people mostly moved during the summer and the streets would be filled with discarded items. We got a sofa and an armchair, and I also have several clothing items I found on the street, cleaned to high heaven and still use to this day.
LOVE that! I, also, have entire rooms furnished exclusively with curbside finds... it's nuts what ppl will throw out!!
Wow, it must be quite chaotic!! I'm from Melbourne & many of our town councils here have a "hard waste collection" once a year but all at different times. So here, we have a similar thing with people putting unwanted furniture, small items & appliances on the nature strip outside their homes. Then you see other people driving around going through the piles & turning someone's discards into their own treasures!! Good way to recycle! Enjoyed your history of Montreal's Moving Day!😊
Thank you!
My city (San Antonio) has bi-annual bulky items pickup, when you can put out large items and the city will cart them off for free. It's always great scavenging!
That is awesome! This sounds like a good system!
Wow! So interesting! Thank you for showing this.
My pleasure!
I would definitely be out and about!
I live in a college town in Florida, and our moving day is August 1. I was shocked at what great things the wealthier students toss out. Some people plan all year to go picking a few days before and after.
Oh yea, I’ve gotten some amazing free finds from rich kids who don’t care enough to cleanup properly when they move out!!
We don't have this in the UK. I wish we did, as I have a living room of trash I need gone but can't afford a removal guy at the moment.
Also, I appreciate the doggo fun 😂
Doggo fun is the best!!
Look for Freecycle on the internet for the UK.
I'm a huge thrifty-frugality fan, but daaaang, the Canelle content in this one is priceless.
LOL love this comment, thank you!
I would be out looking because the thought of all of that just going to landfill upsets me. That trim is gorgeous! and red velvet is always a good score!
Yes, the thought of how much of that stuff is still good and useable (a LOT of it) and how much of it will end up in the landfill (a LOT of it) is really frustrating and sad.
Twice a year there is a town near us that has what they call Bulk Days. Anything that can't fit in the trash can will be picked up only on those two weeks. So I start my hunt the day before and always score a lot of great things. A lot of my home is furnished with my finds. And I sell the rest. It is loads of fun.
Love that! And yes, our apartment is almost entirely furnished with free things from the streets!
21:51 oh my goodness what a great find . I remember having that tape in my ballet bag many moons ago
right?!?! there were some QUALITY tapes in here (and that stuffs 💲💲💲 too!!)
Enjoyed from Texas!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I got one of those singer boxes with an old singer sewing machine table once. I still have the box the table was a wonderful and sturdy table but space didn’t permit me to keep it. The box I have but to date I haven’t found a good use for but since I love it I’m convinced if I keep it long enough I will find a good use for it, I’m 75 now and I’ve had it for about 20 odd years 😂
That is awesome!
in our state and in our city, Anacortes, wa, we simply put our things curbside, and if we want to we put a notice in a place on line, called Your from Anacortes when (I think) and moving boxes, amazon boxes, children clothing and everything in between is snatched up reallyt quickly, and then the left overs are loaded in the back of my short bed pickup and taken for recycle. i one time had a giant black bag of yarn, and it was gone in less than 30 minutes after I put it out. I like the idea of curbside pickup being once a year, you could really find great stuff.
That’s so great!!
cool information about your province, nice finds , lovely video
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@@ShannonMakes everything but the bedbugs, heebie, jeebies lol
What a beautiful city! I want to visit it.
You should!
We have one weekend a year in our town (US) when people leave stuff they are getting rid of out on the sidewalk and register with a map on line and anyone who wants it can grab it and what ever is left gets picked up by the trash company….some great finds!
That’s so fun!