A good load in the middle of a dry spell

I decided to post this story here rather than tagging along on Phil's thread. It was a good Saturday.
I went to a community yard sale style giveaway Sat. to see if there was anything I couldn't live without.
This year it was being held indoors and they were using a big office bldg. that was closed down. There was 12 clothing racks packed full of clothes plus shoes, and 3 rows of tables about 60' ft long of all sorts of yard sale merchandise all for free (but no resellers). I got a couple of items for the house and when I got ready to leave I approached the couple of gentleman that put it all together. This was an effort of a community church (members and friends) to put all their leftovers in one place for one day.

I handed out a few cards explaining who I was and how I scrapped and recycled also. I told them if there was anything metal or anything that plugged in or ran on batteries that I would be happy to haul it away for free so they didn't have to haul it back home. About 2 pm I get a call from the main man asking if I could come over. They mentioned a few items that I knew would fit in the car so I get over there and a few items had grown into almost a carload. Then they started dragging out the larger stuff like a swivel computer chair, a broken jumpy horse, a home made (nice) end table with metal upright legs, an older swim lounger with the styrofoam around it. Basically anything that had metal in or on it was mine.

I take the loaded car home and get the truck (which already had a freezer on it) and go back (it's only 2 mile away) and I ended up filling up the truck also before we were all done. I made a last pass thru and 2 guys following and anything I pointed to they grabbed and out the door they went. I also got 2 printers, 1 scanner, a wireless router, internet phone, almost new roll of solid core phone wire.

They were very happy and I made some new friends (clients) and that we can never have enough of. Today was spent breaking down a lot of stuff a making a shred pile in the bed of the truck. Brought in a few items to break down for the boards. I spotted one item that I will will take pictures of while breaking down. It's an old Phillips Lifeline ('09 model) base unit that calls in in case of an emergency, never had one of those. This was very welcome in a dry spell.