Hmmm, maybe I’ve been on the internet too long but the handwriting doesn’t look like it was written on a vertical pole. It looks like it was easy to write
Hahaha. In Germany many people put their not used anymore items just outside of their houses with signs: “to give away”. I’ve found furnitures, books, washing machine??? :D
I’ve heard stories about people putting out old appliances and furniture out on the curb with a “free” sign. It sits out there for 4 weeks. Then they put out a sign that says “$20. inquire within” And an hour later it was stolen.
That’s true. I did it too when I moved out from our apartment. We have things away serially, like every week days there would be new items, and I got “scolded” by another person living in the building. He/ she (suspect she’s a she) said that I am creating a trash problem in the apartment, and asked me to throw the things away after 24 hours of no one taking them. I discussed this with my wife and we decided not to throw the things away onl after 24 hours. We decided to throw them away after a week.
CR user here. One time we were taking some items out of my house in order to have them recycled for parts. I was taking out an old washing machine we had replaced some time ago, needing some major fixes to go back to usability… it had already been taken away by someone in the five minutes it took me to return back to the front of my house with another batch of things, and I couldn’t help to chuckle at the speed in which things got recycled in my neighborhood
We have actual FB groups in many cities in my country where people tell others where there are skips usually accompanied with image. Even my own apartment building allows people to leave things they don’t need for other people to take. My rocking chair, hallway table, and a lot of other stuff were found in one of these ways. I think I have bought maybe 5 furniture pieces in my life, the rest are someone’s cast-offs although some could be classed as antiques. My dining table was my great grandma’s. People don’t really leave stuff at the curb here though.
I live in a rural town and people put items like this in front of their homes all the time. I have fixed washers, dryers, etc and had things picked up. If it’s there on trash day it gets hauled off.
That happens a lot here too. Except the trash part, if it's not in the trash or recycle container, it will still be there later. Anything large you have to take yourself to the community waste dump.
Depending on your trash service you can leave larger items just sitting by the cans and they'll throw it in the truck.
That's pretty standard in my area if you're on a route with the guys riding on the truck and not the robotic arm. Also even on the routes with the arm they'll have "large trash pickup" a couple times per year and a seperate "brush truck" after large storms or hurricanes.
Anyway when you set items by the curb if someone wants them before trash pickup they'll take them. If it's metal at the very least a scrapper will take it.
My town has a “bulk pickup” day where they pick up large trash. Practically, that means that four days every year, there are literally thousands of free items available to take, so long as you beat the garbage collectors. One time I salvaged a whole-ass fridge from the trash. I’ve gotten so many valuable items from other people’s “garbage”.
The city the image is from likely has a similar concept. It’s not at all surprising that someone threw out a perfectly good printer. If not, then they probably tacked a “free” sign on it and left it out for people to take with a tacit understanding that someone might still benefit from it.
Now personally, I’m more of a “repair it until it explodes” kind of guy, but especially with printers and their intentional annoyingness I could understand others’ desire to just be done with the thing.
It’s commonly understood, at least where I live in the States, that if you are getting rid of something that still works you can leave it out on the curb for somebody else to take for free, sometimes with a note saying “Free” but usually without it.
When I was young and struggling I got most of my furniture that way. I still even have some of it
Just beware what you grab this way as it’s a great way to spread bug infestations. A friend of mine kept having to deal with bed bugs and cockroaches in her apartment because a guy living down the hall liked to refurbish free furniture he found on the street and kept bringing new infestations in after they cleared out the last one.
I grew up in a college town and the day after the students left, a huge number of people, myself included, would go to the part of town with all the frat houses and get all kinds of awesome stuff they left behind. We got a mini fridge and a bunch of wine coolers one year. My wife got a necklace she still wears 20 years later.
It is sadly extremely common for people to dump their broken or other unwanted goods on the side of the road or a street corner. This is especially true for large items. People do it because they are either too lazy to dispose of them properly (taking them to the dump or scheduling bulk trash pickup) or too cheap to pay for it (you have to pay to dispose of trash at the dump and some places charge for bulk trash pickup).
It's shitty, trashy behavior which taxpayers end up paying for because the city or county will have to send someone to dispose of the garbage.
I wish people in my city would stop doing it. We've got transfer stations (the dump) strategically located throughout the city so that it's never that hard to get to one, and people still dump their trash on the side of the road.
The town I live in now has 2 bulk pickup days for heavy items, up to 5 items, a box of stuff counts as one. They usually don’t care if you go a little over either. Then theres the pickers, who go absolutely nuts right before. Antiquers fighting over furniture like dogs over a bone, metal scrappers, etc…
Then theres my parent’s town, which will pick up whatever you leave as long as it isn’t hazardous. And if they won’t take it, you leave a sign that says “free” and someone else will!
That’s how I built my first pc back in the 90s. I cobbled one together from pcs people junked in my old neighborhood.
We had an HP Inkjet printer for over 5 years, one of the older ones. Ink was expensive, but tbh everything else worked great.
Then we got our new HP Inkjet. Genuinely the worst machine I have ever owned. I can’t fucking scan anything without an HP account, and even then it hardly works. I’m going to buy a Brother laser printer soon, as soon as I bring it home that HP printer is going to be smashed to bits in my driveway.
Yes please. HP printers are the dystopia we were warned of. You can’t print with the dumb thing even if ink is in it if you don’t keep paying for the ink subscription.
I have to second this one: we had HP printers at work which just sucked, so we threw them out. After changing to brother printers everything is so easy now. They just work!
I second the Brother recommendation! We’ve had our printer for almost a decade, and it’s still going strong. I worked from home during the pandemic and we only had to buy ink twice. Iirc the black is like $25 and the color set is like $40. Sometimes it tries to not let you print if one of the colors runs out. But when that happens we just take out the cartridge and use sharpie to cover the transparent ink reservoir. The computer thinks it’s full, so you can literally print until they all run dry.
I believe some of their models use a printing method similar to xerox machines that’s even cheaper than ink, long term.
The only downside I’ve had is that the phone app is finicky and sometimes glitchy. For example, if I want to attach a document to an email I have to open the Brother app first, scan the document, share it to my email, save the draft it generates, exit the app, and then open my email back up and load the draft. I can’t attach straight from Gmail. However, I think this might just be a phone compatibility issue. I have terrible luck with phones. But either way, it’s still better than having to boot up the computer every time you need to print.
Eventually I’d like to find a model that can print from usb or be hardwired in addition to being wifi, so I don’t have to rely on the app or my phone. But there’s just no reason to upgrade yet, our printer still works great!
If you do a lot of printing, the Epson Ecotank printer is really good. My wife goes through 2-3 boxes of paper per year. I refill the tanks 2 times per year. A full set of bottles is $45-50.
It’s nice that the are going directly opposite that HP.
I use the HP 110, a small laser jet printer by HP. I mostly use it for return labels and random crap once a month. Does the job fine. We also use HP at work, they’re as good as any other. All the HP hate I think comes from folks who don’t buy a laser jet.
hi, this was entertaining to read really happy to see loud disobedient mods being replaced and removed you have no sympathy from me. when it comes to reddit, decide for yourself if you want to continue using it or not. don’t hold the community hostage. you don’t own it. grow up
The entire point of a protest is to cause inconvenience and annoyance. It’s how you get people to pay attention. Otherwise you’re just the crazy man yelling at clouds.
TBD, but I would not be suprised. As an aside, I did not see any such shenenigans when buying from Amazon most likely because EU tends to be more liberal with the fines.
I dunno. Given the way education is being gutted we could see more of this in the future. It’s a glaring symptom of what I call the prisonification of schools in the US. For a long time schools have slowly been getting less and less funding. Lots of students are hardly getting taught anything in the US. Heck, they even have armed guards in a lot is schools now.
I live in an area where houses start at 3 million dollars, and the school is surrounded by 10 foot high iron gates with iron spikes at the top. I do t have kids but no way I would send my kid there. I already hated school, I can’t imagine what it’s like having to feel like a prisoner every day
Research based education standards are light-years away from what we choose to do, because what we choose to do is based on 19th century attempts to industrialize. Meaning getting kids used to being away from extended family, stuck in a seat for hours, rote memorization, and regurgitation of whatever you’re told.
School never taught me how to actually live and function in society.
Guess what? I ended up poor and going to jail. Guess what? It was the same thing as school only depressed adults, more desperate. Many of the people were kind and just. Good people. They were just institutionalized and thats really sad, on a personal level for me. The way that they carry themselves was heartbreaking to me. I’m very privileged to even sit here and have a good conversation with you.
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