ONE MAN'S JUNK..............

Sandy, over at the Dirty Ashtray talks about "junk day" on her street in Germany. It's kind of like trash day, only no garbage. She scooped up some nice sounding furnature. It brought back a memory of when I did a wee bit of "dumpster diving" myself once.
When we lived in our condo, we were very good friends with the lady next door to us. She is a greeting card rep, she gets all these really cool samples to take to card shops to sell to the owners. Now what does she do with all these FREE samples when she's done with them? Now a days she has a garage sale, other times she just gives boxes of this stuff. This is GOOD stuff too! It's like having your own Hallm*rk store!
Well one day she gave me a box of goodies, her garage was getting full. That night everyone took their trash cans out for trash day the next morning. Steve noticed that Maggie had put a bunch more cards & stuff in her recycle bin. He came in and said "go through and get some more stuff, here's a flash light!". I was mortified! No way! I told HIM to go do it. Well, it ended up that he wheeled Maggie's recycle bin UP TO OUR FRONT DOOR! There I stood in my pajamas digging through that bin. When what do I hear? Maggie's lovley English lilt:
"Is that the neighbors going through the trash?"
She and her roommate just got back from a late night jog. I thought I was going to die on the spot! Even though we don't live next door to each other, we still keep in contact. And when she has her garage sale, she always makes sure she calls me. Sure beats digging through the trash with a flash light!