Free couch - On the curb now!

[firepail.livejournal.com]

Free couch! It's on the curb on Grand View Avenue [runs between Vinal Ave and Walnut]. The foam in the cushions is one year old.





Edit: All gone!

Comments

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Should we really be encouraging people to pick soft furniture out of the trash? There's issues with that you know.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

there's a difference between picking things out of the trash and picking up a sofa that was obviously just put out by the poster. I mean, they have a picture of it in situ, so to speak.

[ellf.livejournal.com]

Come on. Wrapping every single thing you own in plastic and putting it in storage for 18 months while you live in constant fear is great!

[firepail.livejournal.com]

if you have issues with the couch, you don't have to pick it up.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

As I think I've said before, non-buyer beware. But the community mods have neither the time nor inclination to police what people pick up off the street. If you don't want it, you know, don't take it.

second moderator's note

[ron_newman]

I fully agree with the above. We don't regulate the content of for-sale or free-stuff posts, other than asking for lj-cuts when needed.

[firepail.livejournal.com]

we replaced the cushions recently to make the couch firmer, but the couch doesn't fit in our new place.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

The issue isnt so much with a couch being left out in the rain and whatnot, but bedbugs. Not that I think _your_ couch has bedbugs, but lots of people get them from taking in soft furniture. It might set a better example to not advertise free couches, and maybe bag up the cushions separately when throwing out the frame.

[firepail.livejournal.com]

it's only a bad example if I advertise a couch that I know has contagion... this couch does not.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

OOoh! I'm marking this off my trash-aka-free-stuff square!

[firepail.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure you can mark off two squares in the same column!