Heya, trash collectors! I'm stoked and surprised to see how many new members there have been in the past couple of months. What's with the new interest? It got me to thinking: I started this community, gee, almost 5 years ago, when i was a broke student living in Montreal, Quebec. Two cities later, I'm making my life in southern Ontario, with my ( Read more... )

I work at a computer lab and we are doing some massive cleaning. Some of the stuff we are getting rid of goes back to the 80's. Very nostalgic ;)

It's a bit hard to recycle most of this stuff, but I thought some of you crafty, nerdy, and/or awesome types might be able to use some of it?

For example:


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Hi, I'm new here, thanks for accepting me! Someone in my apartment building threw out this cushion, and I picked it up and freecycled it.

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As a peace offering after so many months AWOL, I give you, dear trashies, two recon projects:

From these, two too-short, too-wide, second-(or third?)hand sweaters and a salvaged metal tooth zipper,

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Today I rescued a perfect english cucumber from the trash heap. This was no concerted effort at dumpster diving, just a stroll through the back alleys of Marché Jean Talon, peaking in a few boxes, idly as it were ( Read more... )

A bike that was hit (read: crushed) by the snow plow, that I soon will dismantle and rescue parts from!

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C and I went to a LIBRARIAN DANCE PARTY last weekend - and of course needed appropriate costumes!

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