Saturday, August 13, 2005

Have You No Shame?

Big score tonight on the way back from watching the Aussies vs. New Zealand in the rugby match, watched at Coogee Bay Hotel. A functioning Dell Dimension with cordless mouse and keyboard. External speakers with subwoofer as well. Hard to compare the sense of reward between a dollar well earned and an item well scrounged.

This makes a fridge (300 dollar value if it were able to keep things cold - minor detail), a sofa bed (returned to the curb from whence it came - too crappy in good light), a bed frame (also returned - odd dimensions were somewhere between a queen and a double - a quobble); all found curbside, baby.

I'm conviced that with enough patience and a big enough station wagon, total nirvana is waiting to be recycled.

You should all expect 'slightly worn' Australian presents this year. It's not that we are hard up on cash, it just is a helluv a lot more fun. Is the dump still open?

posted by ncawthon at 10:04 PM