Free Wardrobe

Nice looking cabinet

Its a bit dinged up but for free it is in AWESOME shape

Great that you can use it!

That's actually a good idea!!!! Not only does it keep the cans out of the way, but it keeps them upright, so they take up less room.

exactly. The cabinet doesnt really fit in the room all too well, ITS HUGE! but it still looks better than a pile of paper and plastic like we used to have. I love recycling but i hated the mess it made in my house. this takes away the only drawback in my eyes.

Also, we can refinish this cabinet if we ever decide to use it in a bedroom or anywhere else. It is dinged up a bit, but nothing a coat of paint wont fix!

Two fantastic points. Even if it doesn't really fit in the room, it probably fits better than the recycling before the cabinet. As for the refinishing, that should be a cinch for you! You can fix anything.

lol, well thank you. Katie usually is the one that does the furniture type stuff. Its just more up her ally. I like to tear up a whole room and start from scratch. Its more fun that way for me.

I am just simply amazed at what some people will just give away. Granted by giving this thing away they got someone else to lug it down 3 floors with TINY stairs...but hey. IT will serve us well for many years and didnt cost a penny. Just the time and gas to get it home. (yet another reason i am glad i bought my truck!)

Funny you should say that, as I sit here watching our Freecycled television, remote next to me. All it cost us was $18, for cab fare from our place to theirs, and back. And a tip, of course. The driver helped us carrry it down the stairs. We've also gotten, over the years, a new futon, a new desk chair, an older TV which crapped out which is how we got the new one now, and a new computer monitor for Walker. Oh yeah, the monitor came with a CPU minus a hard drive, that he was able to tear apart and play with, using it to fit up other equipment we had around the apartment. LOL And then the grill in the kitchen came from out back. Students who live here have more money than brains, When they move and don't have room for stuff that still works, they leave it behind. haha That grill is awesome! We use it every day.

Walker just reminded me that our entire apartment in Sedona was furnished by Freecycle! Awesome furnature too, with a beautiful South Western design.

I actually just freecycled a tv about a month ago. We just got into the whole freecycle / facebook groups thing recently but we have got and given (and or sold) so much stuff its amazing.

Most of Noah's toys and a good hunk of his clothes are all second hand. So it may look like we spoil the crap out of him, but really we only spent enough to get a few toys but got dozens instead!

I love it, i have met some cool people along the way as well .But i still stay cautious when dealing with someone new...you just never know...

the best example of it working out for us is we sold a rocking chair that we got for 30 bucks for 40. Katie didnt like it (motion sickness) and it retailed for 130 so the other lady still got a deal lol.

We deal with both free cycle and a facebook group called "shit i dont want anymore" basically an online year round garage sale.

I LOVE the name of that FB group!!!!! That's awesome!!!!

Growing up I had a major problem with second hand because my weathy father was so stingy that he'd bring home any ol' crap and.... well if I start ranting now, you'll be reading all night. HOWEVER in a case where money is an issue, and where you get second hand responsibly, I think it's a great idea!!!! :) Also, I know dang well, you're only going to get good stuff for Noah.

Funny story. My Grandma is 90 years old now, and te family wants her to have a bedroom downstairs, so she won't have to worry about the stairs. The family legend was Grandpa's Treasure Room, the one room of the house that looked like the pilot episode for Hoarders. LOL When Grandpa died, the stuff mysteriously disappeared, and now Grandma is getting a pretty new bedroom. :) He would bring home all kinds of stuff, useful, crappy, new, old, good condition, broken.... Atleast you and Katie have standards! :)

lol, we try too. And if we cant use something, we pass it along even if we give it away. Our house is fairly small for us (well for our packrat tendencies at least) so we have to have a certain in/out ratio to keep lol.

My biggest goal is to have a house on about 3-5 acres with a barn to hold all the CRAP that will be useful someday. as well as be my little workshop for all my hobbies. I live in an area where i could find a place nearby that would meet my needs...i just need the money, and mobility (selling this place) to do so.

Mom once told me about a time when Grandpa came home with a whole box of broken umbrellas. He broght them in the front door and put them down to get the next load of crap err I mean treasures, and Grandma picked them up, and threw them out the back door into the dumpster. I don't think he even noticed they were gone!!!!!!

Your dream sounds awesome!! One way in which you are lucky is you can make money with your computer, but also with your hands, when you're not on the computer. With our circumstances, Walker and I are kinda confined to our computers, but we do alright. We're hoping to get some major promoting of our books done. I got a bright idea for promotions, and wrote about it in a blog entry on our publishing site www.twoguelphauthors.webs.com where I also pasted a copy of the item I created into the blog post. :)

Your grandpa sounds like the sterotype depression era american. Which i think us throw away society kids could learn a thing or two from.

but there is a fine line between hoarding and keeping useful things lol

He was born in 1919, and enlisted in the Army when WWII started. I think you're definitely onto something! I totally unerstand useful stuff, but some of the stuff was beyond useful.

Funny story. Walker's 3rd wife Mary, mother of their almost 22 year old son, was raised by her Grandmother, who raised children during the depression. One of the things that Mary learned early on ws that if there's food on the table, eat it lickety-split, before someone else does!!! As a result, Mary can and WILL eat any food that's not nailed down, in about 5 minutes flat.

One day she visited us in AZ, to bring their son out. Walker made a LOAD of ribs on the BBQ. I was raised with the idea that you take what you can eat, and if you want more take seconds, but eat EVERYTHING YOU TAKE!!! I took a modest portion, and Walker and Cory BOTH warned me to take ALL I wanted that they weren't going to last. It's a good thing I did, because when Mary saw that plate they were G O N E in a heartbeat!!! Amazing how the Depression influences the generations. Fortunately Cory does not take after his mother.

Oh god, i'm the same with food....I was the oldest of 6 kids, and we weren't poor or anything...but there were 8 of us in the house on one income...so we werent well off either. I learned early, if you want it, eat it NOW. so to this day i still eat realllllly fast. I am always the first one done when we eat at home or out. So much that people look at me and say something most of the time lol.

There is a lot of people saying that the recent recession will plague our collective psyche for a while as well. The idea of never being secure and so on. I can see it too...i have changed drastically since then. I was once the stereotype American consumer, now i am a pack rat saver. You have to wonder how much of an effect that can have on a consumer driven economy when millions of people start being frugal.

wow...we have gone from motorskill training games and free cabinets to this lol. gotta love gather and forums like this.

anywho, i am about to crash...I have a funeral to go to in the morning so i should be going to bed (great uncle, not close at all so not a huge thing)

so, goodnight, i had fun chatting. maybe we can pick it up tomorrow where we left off! another great thing about the internet lol

I have an idea. You and Mary face off infront of a plate of ribs. Walker and I will take bets and put money in a pot, and whoever eats the most in the first minute gets all the cash in the pot! haha

My financial foundation is based on my Dad's values, but like my mother and maternal grandparents, I DO have fun now and then, and don't take it to extremes.

Walker and I feel lucky to be on disability, because it's not going to get any worse. I believe that if people learned how to live within their means as the three of us have, they wouldn't have to work themselves to death. Nothing wrong with hard work, but there's no use going into major debt either.

I am glad the current situation gave you the wakeup call that you needed.

When I get to NYC I'm going to write my Dad a good long letter, and put it on Waldorf Stationery. I'm actually going to be landing there on his birthday!!! He's pissed off at me for a lot of things, including taking my mother's last name. I want to try and explain to him that while I refuse to allow him to control everything I do, that's not to say that I haven't learned A LOT from him. God knows, no one controlled everything HE did. He figured it out on his own, and it is no surprise that his daughter takes after him in that way.

Goodnight to you too, and I had a great time! I get eNotifications, and all the ones aimed directly at me are flagged, so they won't get burried in the thousands of other Gather notifications I get in one day.

Warm thoughts directed to you and your family member, at the funeral. For me that's one of the drawbacks to having so many older friends. I have been to way too many funerals, and now I'm married to a guy twice my age plus 5 years. Yeah, that kinda scares me, but one can't waste the present complaining about the inevitable.

Amen, about the internet. I love how we can put a conversation down like a novel, and pick it up the next morning. I also love how we're not doomed to socialize with the people in our tiny little area. I could tell you stories about my school years which will explane perfectly why I have older friends. LOL

Goodnight, sweet dreams, and good luck at the funeral.

Very nice-looking! And you definitely got it for the best price. Looks very sturdy, too... something that will hold up for years to come!

Real nice.

Thanks for posting to Point Taken. Have a great night!