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Hobokenpix: Refuse on display
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4/30/2009:
[Continuing the ORIGINAL Hoboken411 "Photo of the Day" series...]
Guilt or helpfulness?
I find this trend of publicly displaying your unwanted items on the sidewalks of Hoboken very interesting.
Nearly each day of the week – you can find some assortment of objects, magazines, toys or outdated technology yours for the taking.
So what prompts most people to do this? The guilt of throwing something perfectly good out? Or just the hope that someone else will find a use for it? Conscience or kindness?
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April 30th 2009 - 17:55:19 |
Conscience. Who needs even 1/4 of the crap left outside? I walk past “best-selling” books about forty-something women who discover themselves and leave their lives behind to travel the world every week.
Ugh.
Love you, Oscar!
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April 30th 2009 - 18:02:20 |
Interesting “detritus” definitely goes curbside.
Books are often an especially interesting “window”….
Too bad, all those toys could have been donated to the Jubilee Center or The Boys & Girls Club, or In Jesus’ Name. Or to the Hospital thrift shop.
But hopefully, much of it will find a new home, instead of going into the Cali Carting truck.
Maybe 411 could have a thread for folks getting rid of free stuff? It would at least give Jubilee, the shelter, etc. some head’s up to send folks over to retrieve….? Not sure how that might work though, logistically….
In years past, I’ve found some amazing antiques, curbside in Hoboken. Inspired by that vibe, there was a great vintage place, long gone, @ Park & Newark: Found in the Street. A dry cleaner now, I recall….
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April 30th 2009 - 18:05:45 |
Re 2.: Bad recall…definitely Newark, but not Park. Further west. Anyone remember?
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April 30th 2009 - 18:20:40 |
I think you were correct-Newark and Park…sold vintage clothes, handbags,shoes etc..?
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April 30th 2009 - 18:31:40 |
It is more of a tradition rather than a trend, and I’ve done it many times. Lots of things get adopted.
I’ve also used freecycle.com a couple of times, with mixed results… sometimes the other person doesn’t show up to take your stuff.
Still would like to find a home for an big-n-old but functional cell phone…..
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April 30th 2009 - 20:07:04 |
Re 4.: Thanks, yeah, I think that’s right. Some great furniture, too.
Re 5.: Yes, hear that freecycle.com is great on the offerer’s end/bad on the follow-up.
What’s to be done, then?
So someone’s junk/another’s value, gets to the right place, instead of on a trash truck?
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April 30th 2009 - 20:18:02 |
I have given away some free stuff on craigslist, almost more trouble than it’s worth. I see some nice things left by the dumpsters in my building.
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April 30th 2009 - 20:59:39 |
I always hesitate before putting functional stuff out for trash/landfills. So I left some replaced TVs on the curb recently.
I put notes on each: “I’m old but I still work” went on my 20 yo Trinitron. “I’ve been replaced but can still put out…someone please take me home” labeled a Toshiba circa 2001. Also taped the remotes, sans batteries, next to the note.
Both vanished w/in a couple of hours. Win-win for everyone.
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May 1st 2009 - 00:11:17 |
We got a bunch of shirts and bookcases and chairs and small tables over the years this way… what we call Sidewalk Specials. In recent years, the trend has gone the other way. No one took our giant TV, though, when we changed to a smaller flat-screen. It was too big for everyone else, too.
Usually clothes and books disappear, though, probably because they are easy to carry home.
I got a Sidewalk Special pizza pan once and had it in the cupboard for several years before I gave up and returned it to the sidewalk for someone who would actually use it.
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May 1st 2009 - 00:39:34 |
i have read about (though never seen first hand) that in some more rural towns they will have an out of the way place to bring old but functional washing machines, bicycles, etc. Maybe in this day and age such a recycling center could be instituted somewhere in town in a vacant lot or under-utilized garage or something. Worth some thought in the interest of streamlining this recycling stream.
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May 3rd 2009 - 17:04:31 |
this stuffed animals would be greatly appreciated (and used) at liberty humane society.
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May 3rd 2009 - 17:33:58 |
My brother and his wife were moving to a new apartment and several things that they didn’t want (but were still in good shape) were left out on the sidewalk. Everything was taken within a half hour. As Hans above said, win-win for everyone.
Though it reminds me…I was moving out of an apartment (in another city) and had some things out in the hallway that hadn’t made its way into the moving van yet. A neighbor down the hall was helping himself to some stuff and had to be shooed away.
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