Second hand Sunday in pictures

Ohhh.. Second Hand Sunday..

My household had no idea it was on. My kids like leaving their bikes/green machine/scooters etc up on the median strip in between going to across the road etc and the kids across the road also like doing this.

I however am not a fan.

Needless to say, a few Second Hand Sundayer’s were quite interested in what the kids had to offer them.. Much to the astonishment of my partner who thankfully was there to rescue said bikes etc.

Well.. I can only hope some of the kids around here have learnt a lesson.

HAHAHAHA who am I fooling.. Fools they are. Really!

second hand sunday… oh yeah!

I got rid of some first rate junk. Some things pretty good (newish juicer, desk, desk chair, board games, hammock) and others not so good (broken chair, ugly white consatina faux wood door). But as fast as we could put it out it was snapped up by keen passers by!

We put a whole lot of stuff out late Friday night, and awoke to an almost empty verge. Encouraged, we scoured the house for more second hand sunday worthy items, leaving things out throughout the weekend.

By Sunday afternoon we’d had a 100% successful 2nd hand sunday. Fun times.

Dante said :

ant: It’s not council pickup because the items don’t get picked up by anyone after the event…

Yeah! Like I said, it’s a DIY council pickup.

People out here will often put stuff they don’t want on the roadside, with a sign.

I didn’t know about it either . . . but then, I would rather have a proper ‘council’ (hard rubbish) collection like they do in Quangers. I will vote for whoever promises one.

I was pretty happy – got rid of some dud furniture that was lying around courtesy of a long-since-departed housemate. Although in the inner-north, every weekend is a potential “second hand Sunday” – there’s been a culture of putting useable-but-unwanted free stuff out on the nature strip for years.

Seems not even the ACT Government’s Canberra Connect service has heard of it.

Next one is in Novermber:
http://www.tams.act.gov.au/play/community_events/second-hand_sunday

Taxis are so ‘last year’ ….

Can’t believe someone’s getting rid of a perfectly good taxi! [second-last pic]

ant: It’s not council pickup because the items don’t get picked up by anyone after the event…

You just stick stuff you don’t want on the nature strip, and if after 6 hours it’s not gone, it’s your responsibility to get rid of it.

I mean butter.