Oh Craigslist, You Amuse Me So!

[zzGypsy]

Our CL had 'would stove' listed today.

"I would too, if I could stove..." ~ Chuck.

 

[ChickChickChicky]

There's often food offered on our Freecycle. One explanation given was that the person had gotten at the food bank, but that the food was things her kids didn't like, so she was passing it on. I suppose if you returned it to the food bank, they'd be hesitant to give more next time.


Our CL had 'would stove' listed today.

I often volunteer with the regional food pantry when they distribute perishables (rather than canned or boxed food). They have regular times and places where these items are distributed, and the people receiving the items need meet no income guidelines or anything, just show up. Its sad to say that a very large proportion of these people are elderly and/or handicapped. At any rate, the items to distribute always vary.... they may haves tons of cabbages, or carrots, or lettuce. The volunteers doing the distributing do their best to divvy things up equally, but sometimes there is simply a great overabundance of one or more items. In that case we urge everyone to take as much as they can, and share what they can't use with friends and neighbors. It is a good way to get the perishable things actually used, rather than have them spoil.

 

[orumpoultry]

We get a lot of 'free tree' you dig up. Free firewood, you cut down tree, etc.. Best one I ever saw was along the lines of

FREE BEES! - bring your own equipment. They've taken homage in my backyard. Need gone asap, afraid for my dogs.

or something like that. Anyways, got in contact with some local bee keepers for the person and they went and got them.

People post the weirdest things.

 

[featherz]

*anything* I put out on the street someone will take. I've been amazed on what they will pick up. No need to list it on CL! =) I put out old buckets covered in driveway mix (that black goo) - all gone. Old hollow nasty doors from the 80's with paint and stickers? gone.. broken appliances? gone. Old broken swingset with parts missing? You got it.

Funniest one was when we put out a broken microwave. Whoever picked it up figured out it was broken and BROUGHT IT BACK. LOL. Then someone else (assumedly) took it again.

We have a big metal gazebo (one of those $200 jobs) that we put up last year that hubby refused to take down for the winter. It fell down (duh) and now we have a big pile of bent and broken gazebo metal. I am tempted to put that out on the street and see if anyone takes it.

 

[galanie]

Same here! I just put stuff by the curb and within a day, gone! I call them shoppers. I'll put something out knowing the "shoppers" will be by. Course I don't put food out there but just about anything else and it rarely stays there for 24 hours.

 

[StarLover21]

This was under the pets section...
Specific, huh?

http://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/pet/2927492462.html

 

[armdchicken]

Heres a good one:

free snowmen

Date: 2012-03-23, 11:54PM AKDT
Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]

FREE SNOWMEN........SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED...........YOU HAUL

• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

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PostingID: 2889968984

 

[chloezoebob101]

This was under the pets section...
Specific, huh?

http://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/pet/2927492462.html

WAS IT A DOG? WAS IT A CAT? WAS IT A PARROT? CALL TO FIND OUT!

Heres a good one:

free snowmen

Date: 2012-03-23, 11:54PM AKDT
Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]

FREE SNOWMEN........SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED...........YOU HAUL

• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

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PostingID: 2889968984

GOOD ONE!!!!!

 

[armdchicken]

Prehistoric Oval Fossil.
Approximately 6,000,000,000 years old

I found this many years when I was prospecting for gold in riverbed just outside of
Girdwood.
I couldn't believe that it was just sitting there because there were several people in the area and
none of them seemed to notice it at all.
Even though I have no formal geological training I know that something is old when I see it and this object is certainly old.
I had originally placed it in the backyard but the darn thing kept attracting bugs and other things that tried to burrow under it.
I suspect that it may be some sort of insect trap from some forgotten civilization but cannot be sure of this due to the age of the item.
I love this thing but the wife says that she'll leave me if I don't get rid of it.
So it's up for grabs.
Please respond via e-mail.

 

[NCnarrator]

Prehistoric Oval Fossil.
Approximately 6,000,000,000 years old

I found this many years when I was prospecting for gold in riverbed just outside of
Girdwood.
I couldn't believe that it was just sitting there because there were several people in the area and
none of them seemed to notice it at all.
Even though I have no formal geological training I know that something is old when I see it and this object is certainly old.
I had originally placed it in the backyard but the darn thing kept attracting bugs and other things that tried to burrow under it.
I suspect that it may be some sort of insect trap from some forgotten civilization but cannot be sure of this due to the age of the item.
I love this thing but the wife says that she'll leave me if I don't get rid of it.
So it's up for grabs.
Please respond via e-mail.

My hubby, the HS science teacher just about laughed his tail feathers off!