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Across the Fence:  The thrifting "circle of life" (lol)  |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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 Posted - Jul 07 2012 : 12:42:57 PM
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Hi, everybody. I haven't had much time here lately but I just saw something that made me laugh and I thought you ladies would get it.
A few months ago, I bought a pair of dining chairs at a flea market. They turned out to be crappier than I thought and I ended up putting them out on the curb instead of recovering them. They disappeared before the trash men came along, and I was glad that someone else was able to use them.
Well, about six weeks ago I saw them again...on the curb in front of my neighbor's house.
And just this afternoon, I saw them yet again...on the curb in front of a neighbor's house further down the street.
OMG, these poor chairs are just making the rounds. They look saveable when you first see them, but apparently everybody else comes to the same conclusion I did: just not worth the hassle. |
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Emily Anna
True Blue Farmgirl
863 Posts
Emily
Fort Atkinson
WI
USA
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Posted - Jul 07 2012 : 1:11:50 PM
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That is too funny, Amie! Who knows where you'll see them next! lol.
I'm assuming they are nice looking chairs seen as everybody seems to be taking them. I'm wondering since they are in rough shape and can't be used as chairs, could you use them for something else....like something in your yard or garden if you have one? Ha ha....part of me just wants to see them end up back at your house! :)
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13625 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jul 07 2012 : 6:20:12 PM
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What a hoot!!!!!!! I'll be giggling all evening after reading this. Thanks for sharing.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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jan49829
True Blue Farmgirl
2428 Posts
Janet
Winter Haven
Florida
USA
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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
7577 Posts
Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
7577 Posts |
Posted - Jul 07 2012 : 9:12:17 PM
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That is just too funny, Amie... You should take pictures and write a story about their travels in their own voice and submit it to MJF magazine! LOL!
Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
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JerseyGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
181 Posts
Michele
Southern NJ
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2012 : 03:37:25 AM
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| Amie, that's hysterical! We do that around here with magazines, but I've never seen chairs making rounds...lol! |
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BlackHorseFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
91 Posts
Elizabeth
Chicago
IL
USA
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
2099 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2012 : 6:23:34 PM
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| I'm glad you guys thought it was as funny as I did. I like the idea of using chairs in the garden, but no, not these chairs! The problems they have are: the seats are a really cheap mdf board rather than real wood or particle board, but at the same time they are fastened on with some sort of weird allen-head screws so it's hard to get them off to replace them. Also the chair legs and back might be made of real wood, but there's something plastic-y about it if you look closely. Like if you tried to scuff sand to repaint them, they might start to fray. I don't think they'd look pretty after a good rain. |
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crittergranny
True Blue Farmgirl
1096 Posts
Laura
Lindrith
NM
USA
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Posted - Jul 09 2012 : 09:02:47 AM
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I think it is very cool that so many of your neighbors are willing to take a second look and consider recycling. And it is sooo hilarious too. Thanks for the chuckle.
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2012 : 9:51:43 PM
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Well I don't know about you all...but my heart is breaking for those poor homeless, unwanted chairs... sitting out side at the curb, lonely, cold and hungry,,,just wanting a dinette table to call their own... surely there is someone out there with compassion and a dinette in need a sweet loving chairs... Wait,,, I think we can turn their plight into a Country & Western song....
lololololololol!
Just make sure they don't end up on my doorstep! lololol!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom.
"Is it time for my Dirt Manicure yet!"
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://www.graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 11 2012 : 08:01:40 AM
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That's hilarious, Amie. Whenever I'm at a Goodwill and I see something I know I donated, I always get a weird sense of the need to buy it back :)
I'm glad I don't live in your neighborhood, because like all the old windows put to the curb, I pick up old chairs, too!
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
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Posted - Jul 11 2012 : 08:29:35 AM
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I bought a chair at a garage sale for $1 thinking I would put it in the garden with viney things growing on it. Got it home and it has a metel mfg plac on the back and a numbered lable on the bottom. I looked it up on the internet and found it to be worth up to $200. I am real lazy when it comes to refinishing or ebay selling. So, it never made it to the garden. Iam the only one in the neighborhood with a $200 oak chair on the porch. THEN an old friend dropped by one day and was she surprised. It was her mother's chair. (she is pretty sure) I ask if she wanted it. She said no, she liked it where it is now.
The "circle of life" just keeps on going around.
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Ga Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
2355 Posts
Karen
Meansville
Ga.
USA
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Posted - Jul 11 2012 : 08:36:20 AM
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Too funny. I live in the sticks so don't get to find such treats. ( or not so much in this case) lol Karen
Create in me a pure heart,O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalms 51:10
Farmgirl sister #1156
www.KKJD1.etsy.com
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cori1312
True Blue Farmgirl
64 Posts
Leslie
Fairborn
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2012 : 12:00:20 PM
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That's hilarious! I had something similar happen once. My mom had me make slipcovers for her dining room chairs. I thought the colors were hideous (told her she wasn't allowed to say I made them), but she liked them. We used them for a while before replacing our chairs and gave the old ones, with covers, to some friends in need. I was so glad to see them go.
Then over two years later, my sis came home from the thrift with those same horrible slipcovers! I thought I would be haunted by them forever!
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