Ode To Things Found on the Street

Is there anything more glorious than Sterling Place on trash night?

I have found some seriously fabulous stuff on the street in this neighborhood. Here is just a partial list:
- a decent chair
- a glass-front wooden console in perfect condition that MAKES my living room
- a stepstool now holding magazines in my bathroom
- huge stacks of late-issue yuppie magazines (yoga journal, gourmet, etc.)
- the perfect summer woven straw handbag
- a weekend duffel bag, like new
- an early edition of the book "national velvet"
and tonight's finds: a set of plastic mini-drawers to organize my junk, and a wooden sushi/cutting block.

Just an appreciation -- one more thing I LOVE about this neighborhood.

Sterling Place is like a great big recycling bin. Once on Sterling Pl., I stumbled upon a cardboard box full of Sopranos single-episode tapes and cable TV movies like "When Elvis Met Nixon." Later I tried to sell them at my stoop sale, but they ended up in the "free" box. A year later, I came across a stoop sale on Sterling Pl., where someone was trying to sell the exact same Sopranos tapes that I had once rescued from the trash about half a block away from them. Everybody still following my story?

Subject: Re: Ode To Things Found on the Street

sarahb wrote: Is there anything more glorious than Sterling Place on trash night?

I have found some seriously fabulous stuff on the street in this neighborhood. Here is just a partial list:
- a decent chair
- a glass-front wooden console in perfect condition that MAKES my living room
- a stepstool now holding magazines in my bathroom
- huge stacks of late-issue yuppie magazines (yoga journal, gourmet, etc.)
- the perfect summer woven straw handbag
- a weekend duffel bag, like new
- an early edition of the book "national velvet"
and tonight's finds: a set of plastic mini-drawers to organize my junk, and a wooden sushi/cutting block.

Just an appreciation -- one more thing I LOVE about this neighborhood.

though not quite as good as my old neighborhood on the uws, the potential of quality groundscores in PH is great... we've fileld half our house from other people's "trash"!

aren't you worried that some dog (not dawg) has come along and peed on the stuff? especially the magazines. i always see stuff i would pick up, but then i see a dog down the street peeing on the garbage.

but hey, you might like your living room a little more funky than i like mine.

rita wrote: aren't you worried that some dog (not dawg) has come along and peed on the stuff? especially the magazines. i always see stuff i would pick up, but then i see a dog down the street peeing on the garbage.

but hey, you might like your living room a little more funky than i like mine.

im sure that, unless you take your shoes off before you go inside, youre probably treacking much worse into your house.

btw... i like to hope im smart enough to not drag urine-soaked stuff into my place, you know?

rhodamine wrote:

btw... i like to hope im smart enough to not drag urine-soaked stuff into my place, you know?

yeah, i guess i don't think i'm quite that smart. yet.

rhodamine wrote:

btw... i like to hope im smart enough to not drag urine-soaked stuff into my place, you know?

well, i mean, unless youre into that sort of thing. :roll:

I found this in the garbage on prospect place....



and turned it into this....



beautiful garbage!

susan wrote: beautiful garbage!

OMG!! that green color is obviously dog-pee!!!1!1!

So that's what that smell is in my dining room!

Subject: wow

I wanted to take that, but couldn't carrry it.
you did a great job with it.

rhodamine wrote: [quote=susan]beautiful garbage!

OMG!! that green color is obviously dog-pee!!!1!1!



I actually like to deliberately step in gross things on the street and track them in the house. Kind of like Brando, you know, "What are you rebelling against? Whaddya got" attitude.

Except for me, it's a "Oh my god-- what kinda shit are you stepping in? Whaddya got?" thing.