Nice weather= cleaning out garages
The weather this past weekend was exceptionally nice, so I guess many people took advantage of the time to clean out their garage and porches and stuff. I fully expect to have double, maybe triple, my regular weight on my weekly run to the yard... might be 2 or 3 trips to the yard Saturday morning! The real icing on this cake is that I've been so busy with a remodeling job I'm doing, that I've barely gone out curb shopping. Probably spent only half the time I normally do.
In the past six months, I've probably taken in 2 grills. The past 4 days, I've snagged 4. Plus a handful of propane tanks, one of which was full (that's a twenty dollar bill, right there). Boatloads of yard furniture, most aluminum, but some cast iron and steel, too. There was one curb-load that was loaded with boxes of nails and screws, a fire extinguisher, a bunch of brass odds-and-ends, a bunch of holiday lights (they were a tangled mess, I'm assuming the homeowner is buying some new ones this year), there was so much that I couldn't take it all.
Last night I didn't hit my route until almost 11:30 (normally I like to get started by 7:30/8) expecting to find nothing but vacuum sweepers with the cords cut... well within 30 minutes I found a dryer, a box with 3 old laptops and a bunch of cords, a tv, a microwave, a sweeper (with the cord cut off :) ), and a box of what I thought were metal trophies. And a bunch of miscellaneous metal bits and pieces, mop handles, plant cages, etc. The trophies were heavy, so that's what made me think metal, but when I got them home in the light, I saw they were ceramic... so out to my curb they went. Also in that box were 2 really nice duffel bags, though. So, I filled up my van to the roof, which was weird because my Tuesday night route is really competitive... I can't believe so much stuff had been sitting so long it had frost on it.
Sorry for going on and on... just super excited with how this week is going. Of course we all know that some weeks are gold and some weeks are crap. I'm just glad I'm having a gold week!
