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From: Bama
Date: 11-10-2006, 12:41 PM (1 of 27)
just left my yard with a truck load of our pine straw. I went out to take out a bag of garbage and she was loading the straw into the back of her pickup truck. Before I could walk to the edge of the property where she was, she drove off.  Some people have alot of nerve. If she had asked, I probably would have told her to get what she needed. Just stay away from the azaleas. It was on the edge of our property where there's a large group of pine trees. Hubby planted several azaleas underneath so he doesn't rake the pine straw there. I'm just shocked that someone would make themselves at home in someone else's yard. I called my MIL and she said that my FIL said the same truck was here last year collecting straw from their yard without asking. Guess she didn't realize I'm OFF WORK today and would see her. She seemed in a hurry when she saw me walking. |
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From: Magot
Date: 11-10-2006, 05:04 PM (2 of 27)
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Well, how rude is that - she might as well wander intothe garden and pick the roses!
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Patty22
Date: 11-10-2006, 06:18 PM (3 of 27)
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Bama.... sometimes I amazed at the general public, but then again........... About 27 1/2 years ago (I remember quite well because I was about 8 months pregnant), one of my husband's clients told him he could come over to his house and get some saplings to put in our back yard. We went and the pine trees were quite lovely and after about 45 minutes my husband had dug up about 10 little trees. The client was talking to my husband as he dug and then the man's neighbor came over. He told him those are great trees, could he also have some. The man told him fine, he didn't own the property anyway.  and eight months pregnant I told my husband to move his butt because I didn't want my baby to be born in a jail.Needless to say, this woman seemed a bit odd at taking off when seeing you. Patty
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 11-10-2006, 09:55 PM (4 of 27)
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After I moved into this house over 11 yrs ago, I found 1/2 of my trash was gone...yep..one of my neighbors came over and decided that what I threw away was her's. She didn't ask...the next week I caught her with dead plants I was throwing out. I told her to get away from my house and if I caught her here again I'd call the sheriff's dept. (her husband was a neighborhood 'creeper', he'd go into everyones backyards, gates or NOT and peek into windows....yuck whata pair, they're now divorced and I don't have to see either one...YAY !!!) 3 yrs ago I put a new light on my porch and I put the old one in the trash, yep...it disappeared BEFORE the garbage men picked it up...it was cheap plastic and was broken... Last yr when I got new furniture I put out the old stuff (here in FL they pick up 'household' stuff on thursdays, furniture etc...), coffee table and end tables, solid wood, all in pieces (legs came off and glass came off) I was expecting it to be gone, but no...nothing was missing...I guess they didn't like Asian furniture..hee hee. 
Chrys
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From: Bama
Date: 11-11-2006, 12:59 AM (5 of 27)
Funny stories. I actually have a neighbor who works near a ritzy neighborhood who regularly drives through there on trash day. He's found several discarded furniture pieces and brought them home. I'd never have the nerve to do something like that.  Ever seen the show Junk Brothers? They pick up discarded furniture from the curb at people's homes and re-make it into somehting wonderful and sneak it back there. Now THAT I would not mind. When hubby got home I told him about the lady. He was shocked too. He's very picky about his trees and shrubs. He leaves the pine straw around the azaleas for a natural mulch. I guess that's what the lady was getting it for too. You can buy it in bales at the home improvement centers here. I just hope the woman doesn't need any evergreen branches. We have some lovely Spruce and Leeland Cypress trees near there. 
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User: Bama
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From: DorothyL
Date: 11-11-2006, 11:28 AM (6 of 27)
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I had neighbors that would always pull up my plastic flamingos and throw them in the bushes. Every summer I would have to get new ones just to annoy the neighbors. They really hated it when we painted the front door purple. If it hadn't been a brick house I'd have painted the whole thing purple just to bug them. Dorothy |
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From: Bama
Date: 11-11-2006, 11:49 AM (7 of 27)
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Dorothy, you should have painted a big purple quilt block on the door. My parents just moved into a new house that is in town. They have always lived in the country until now. Most of the houses look similair and everyone in our family has to drive really slow to figure out which house it is. Hubby said he's going to buy them some big pink flamingos to put in the yard so we can tell which house is theirs. I bet their neighbors would love that. 
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User: Bama
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From: DorothyL
Date: 11-11-2006, 02:03 PM (8 of 27)
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Bama -- He better hurry. The factory that makes the original ones just stopped production. Dorothy |
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 11-11-2006, 08:01 PM (9 of 27)
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Ever seen the show Junk Brothers? They pick up discarded furniture from the curb at people's homes and re-make it into somehting wonderful and sneak it back there. Now THAT I would not mind. Yep....The Junk Bros are located here in Ottawa. I'm waiting for the day that they would find my throw aways interesting enough to do that with. Think I'll be waiting a longggg time.  A couple of years ago at 6:30 p.m I threw out my old barbeque. I wheeled it to the road, went back to the back yard to pick up something else and when I got to the front a guy was loading it into the back of his pickup. Another time, I put out an old sofa (one that a neighbour had given me and I had used in the basement) at 6:00 and by 11:00 p.m. it was gone. I pity the person who took that one as the fabric was worn, especially the arms, and it was soooo uncomfortable. Whoever took it didn't get a bargain.
TTFN from
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From: Pudge99
Date: 11-12-2006, 12:04 AM (10 of 27)
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What is so wrong with someone taking your garbage if they can find a use for it? Isn't it better that it be reused rather than going to our already over filled landfills? I have found a lot of usable stuff just sitting on the curb in my neighborhood. I got a piano, a bentwood rocker (just needed a new seatback) and oh my goodness the stuff military people put out as garbage when they realize that they have gone over their weight limit when moving to a new base. We have large item pick up here twice a year, and I am happy to see the junk dealers driving around grabbing the useful stuff. I would much rather see that then it all go off in the big truck to the dump. I do agree that the lady grabbing the regular garbage is a little wierd. And of course in the original post that lady was just wrong. She should have come and asked. Actually some of the junk dealers who roam my neigborhood will even ask permission to take what you have put out. Well anyway that is my unsolicited 2 cents worth. Gina
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From: Hogmami
Date: 11-12-2006, 12:14 AM (11 of 27)
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I agree with Gina. We have junk day once a year here. It is fun to watch everybody going up and down the streets and taking junk off the piles. I have done it and have gotten some nice stuff. When we put our junk out my husband and I have a game of seeing who is right on what will be picked up. Besides, one man's junk, is another man's treasure.
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 11-12-2006, 06:38 AM (12 of 27)
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When we put usable stuff out we put a free sign on it. That leys people know it is OK to take. Taking trash/garbage that doesn't belong to you is a crime. And so is taking natural items ie: pine straw,flowers trees etc. You should report it to the police. They probably won't find her but maybe next year they will be on the lookout.
Barb
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From: Patty22
Date: 11-12-2006, 09:03 AM (13 of 27)
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In NY, it is not a crime to take abondoned items that are out for trash; that is why the police don't need a search warrant to go through a suspect's trash. Friends who live in the city (okay, large town) actually make it a Sunday night affair to make coffee and watch the "trash pickers" who come once their junk is put out. And for any naysayers............my old sewing machine repairman picked up a featherweight (perfect condition) that was put out for trash. He went up to the house and asked if they wanted money for it and they said no. Recycle and Reuse. Patty
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From: Bama
Date: 11-12-2006, 10:41 AM (14 of 27)
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We always donate old furniture and stuff to a charity that will come pick it up if it's something that won't fit into my car. Our garbage service won't pick up anything that doesn't fit into the garbage can. If it's something not worth donating, we have to take it to the dump ourself. If we were allowed to put it out, I wouldn't mind if someone picked up something I had thrown out. A friend of mine had a neighbor that always sneaked out on garbage day and put her trash into their garbage can so she wouldn't have to pay for the service. |
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 11-12-2006, 11:32 AM (15 of 27)
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I don't mind people taking things but, taking trash is how some people steal your identity so make sure if you know people are going through your garbage that everything is shredded if they can get any personal info from it. I even go so far as to throw things in different tarsh cans so they will be harder to piece together if someone wanted to.
Barb
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From: pretnichols
Date: 11-13-2006, 08:22 AM (16 of 27)
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Okay, my 2 cents: First, what is pine straw? Second, we have a junk man that comes around the night before garbage day. He takes ONLY metal, and then recycles it (somewhere), where he earns some cash. I"m alwaysa afraid that his load is going to fall off the truck, or worse, thr truck tip over. Lastly, it was extremely wrong of that women to take the straw. She knows it, and did it anyway. May have even done it in the past. Is there any way to post No Trespassing signs back there? Doesn't soung like your yard is fenced, but even if you post it, then they wkould need to aknowledge your sign. I would have been truly "ticked" off if someone had done that to me, and would have yelled at them, even as she as hurrying to drive off. Hopefully, it doesn't happen again! Peggy
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From: stephi
Date: 11-13-2006, 09:32 AM (17 of 27)
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Thats so funny. Our road is a loop, almost a dead end with houses in the center. The only peole with any reason to go down it are the ones who live on it. But when we first moved in we took all of those metal over the window awning things down. Not even 5minutes passed and a junk guy drove by picked it up and left!! He has done this with several things like our porch railing and metal gutters!! He doesnt live on our street but he is there in two minutes whenever we set out metal stuff!!
Stephi
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From: SheliaHC
Date: 11-13-2006, 01:01 PM (18 of 27)
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Peggy, pine straw is just pine needles. Shelia |
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From: pretnichols
Date: 11-13-2006, 11:12 PM (19 of 27)
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Thanks for tip on the pine straw! We have tons of evergreens where I work and I think I'll find out if I can take some for my flower beds. The landscapers always take it away anyway. And sorry about all of the typos in my previous message. I haven't been on in days and was hurrying to read all the posts. Guess I need to use spell checker!  My MIL used to go garbage picking when she was younger. She always felt she had to sneak, in case someone changed their mind about putting it at the curb. Something about one man's junk is another man's treasure! It reminds me of a time when I was a child and an elderly man always picked the veggies from the neighbors garden. Opened the gate & helped himself. They eventually had to put a lock on it (the gate) to keep him out. He spoke no English, so I don't think he understood when they told him to stop. Peggy
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 11-13-2006, 11:24 PM (20 of 27)
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We have a type of pine here in the south called the 'long leaf'..it has EXTRA long needles. ( not like Christmas trees) and HUGE killer (to tires) pine cones. They sell it in bundles or you can go almost anywhere and rake your own....people use it for mulch. The trees themselves are really tall and thin, they look like bottle brushes..long stems with a brush at the end. (I find them to be ugly and messy...they also have a wonderful habit of 'dusting' in the spring...they give off bright yellow dust that covers everything outside, you have to rinse your car off every day, unless you like the yellow look or aren't allergic to it.) Then the dust just sits on the drive way in piles.. Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
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From: stephi
Date: 11-14-2006, 09:33 AM (21 of 27)
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Chrys-Amen! I hate those things I have one in my back yard we are contemplating how to take the darn thing down. The pine cones can get up to about 8" and will scratch the holey tar out of your cars finish!! They are great for crafts though...Peanut butter birdfeeder is my D's favorite thing to do. Besides that she gets a nickel for every pinecone she picks up so she really likes the pine tree!! A lady at my church comes picks up the bag then gives my D another dollar so its a good money maker for a 5yo!!
Stephi
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From: paroper
Date: 11-14-2006, 09:53 AM (22 of 27)
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Many years ago, a lady I worked with bought an older home that had been vacant. There were many shurbs that needed to be trimmed and in general, there was much work to do around the house. Over several days, she carefully trimmed all the shrubs in a round shape. The neighbor came over and told her she was doing it wrong...they needed to be flat. This lady was a window decorator at the store where I worked. I'm sure she knew what she wanted. She told him that she prefered the round shape. The next day she came home from work and not only had he "flattened" all her shrubs, he cut a hole in a shrub that was over her kitchen window. With that shrub trimmerd, he could sit in his house and look completely through hers! She was beyond furious!
pam
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From: plrlegal
Date: 11-14-2006, 01:01 PM (23 of 27)
Hmmmmm!!! Maybe I'll just put all of the junk in my garage out at the curb and see if there are any takers.  You name it, I think it's probably in my garage at the present time and we haven't even cleaned out the storage space over the garage yet. Patsy Patsy
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From: paroper
Date: 11-15-2006, 09:46 AM (24 of 27)
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Over the years we've often found that if we put a small price tag on something we have better luck than if we try to "give" it away...go figure...I guess in parts of the country it is a matter of pride?
pam
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 11-15-2006, 08:17 PM (25 of 27)
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hahahahahaha...I STILL have those wonderful (now that they've ben sued and 'we' the consumers won) Calpyso washer/dryer pair and a 27" color t.v. (everything WORKS) I haven't been able to sell them, or give them away for 2 yrs now, they set in the garage. I could even get Katrina victims or GoodWill to pick them up. I don't know what gives, but I'm tired of them taking up space in my garage...not even the " I'll pick up your used/broken washer/dryer" guy will come and pick them up...I'm about ready to bomb the things...
Chrys
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From: pretnichols
Date: 11-15-2006, 11:02 PM (26 of 27)
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Chrys, why were your washer/dryer part of a lawsuit? Didd they malfunction or something worse? Just curious!
Peggy
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 11-15-2006, 11:23 PM (27 of 27)
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Made by Whirlpool for Sears the wonderful Calypso Elite washers and dryers were the L E M O N 'S of the Whirlpool line. We (a LOT of 'us') were sucked into buying them, then having them break. (in my case the washer was repaired -6- times and the dryer -4- times in the space of 2 yrs.) The same things were happening to everyone who owned the pair, only we were all told by the repairmen, it was unusual. So a class action law suit was brought in MN, which included the whole U.S. If we bought a new washer and dryer (and didn't ask Sears to pay for it, or ask for rebates, we just 'abandoned' the things), we get some money back...hopefully soon. (my paperwork including calling Sears and asking for all the repair's has been gone since May, of this yr) We bought a new washer and dryer before the law suit was brought, so hopefully Sears/Whirpool will pay for them (KitchenAid front loaders, also made by Whirlpool.) If you didn't know...Whirlpool makes KitchenAid (TOL), Whirlpool (#2) and Kenmore (#3) (yes the old washer and dryer DO work, they've been repaired so much they better...I just couldn't see paying $200. OR MORE a repair again...since we paid for them 3 times, with repairs and buying them in the first place. Everything has been replaced on them except the paint on the outside )
Chrys
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