re: #138 Decatur Deb

Our neighborhood/town does curb-cycling. The city has a wonderful team that picks up yard trash and anything up to a discarded couch once each week. They take it from a semi-designated spot at the corner of each front yard. Anything we place on that spot is fair game until it’s picked up. We had to be careful about kids leaving bikes and toys on the hot spot.

Here in Minnesota, it is apparently tradition to randomly leave piles of stuff at the end of one’s driveway with a “free” sign attached. Anything in such a pile is fair game. Mrs. Fish and I acquired our first home furniture in such a fashion, a pair of ugly red chairs that we quickly got rid of once we were able to afford our own furniture.