Little did I know that taking things from the trash is so popular! I have coined a new term to describe what I have witnessed in my apartment complex the last couple of months. I call them the "garbage vultures."
Backstory- I live pretty freakin' close to the back of the apartment complex. Lucky me, my location is pretty much across from the big trash compactor, which I originally thought would be terrible, but actually turns out pretty easy for me on trash days- end backstory.
In the last couple of months, I have witnessed large "big-ticket" items being dumped near the compactor. Now taking Sophie out all the time and living freakishly close to the trash, I get what I think as the first look at the new 'merch. For example, a few of my favorites have been a bookshelf, perfectly good floor lamp with the lightbulb still in it, a desk, a dresser, a rocking chair, coffee table, recliner, leather love seat, and at least a 36' television. I won't lie... I have perused these items to see if something would work in my apartment, but EVERY time I go back to get something, these items get picked up by someone else!
The latest loot, the leather couch and recliner are still out there.... sad this is, someone took the cushions on both, seems weird to me, but maybe someone needed them? If anything, I do enjoy seeing new things arrive and watching the "vultures" in my apartment complex stare in awe waiting to descend and accessorize their apartments (which is always super entertaining because they all steel these things in work clothes... fancy vultures).
So.... yes, one man's trash is truly another man's treasure, at least in my apartment complex. Anyone else experience this weird phenomenon?
