I have nearly stubbed my toe on in it for the past two days, but I love my new free freezer. My freezer was a treasure picked up during this past weekend’s curbide giveaway event. This supossedly National event gives people the opportunity to place items they no longer have use for at their curbs for others to pick up. This curb-side recycling has happened every garbage night throughout the year in every neighbourhood I have ever lived in. That being said, it is a great (national?) initiative promoting recycling that allowed our family to score some great treasures. Walking around our neighbourhood we acquired a four slice stainless steel Cusinart toaster (we’ve have been oogling them for, like, ever!), a stainless thermos style coffee/tea carafe (great for shop events!), a toaster oven (so I can make myself yummy toasty things at the shop), a chalkboard (again for the shop), a big galvanized bin/bucket which I will use in the garden, and a piece of countertop that fit perfectly over a vanity that we had in our basement for our laundry area.
The big score, the freezer, was part of a fortuitous yard sale trip. On our way home from a community plant sale, my daughter and I stopped in at a yard sale. It had lots of quality kids stuff. We picked up some soft blocks and books for our b-boy and E scored some little ponies. I ended up chatting with the home owner about kids and cleaning house. She mentioned that funds raised from the yard sale were going to the new “big” freezer. “You aren’t by chance selling the older “smaller” freezer?”, I asked boldly. Unfortunately, the smaller freezer was promised to someone else. On my way to the car, a guy approached me with a “I have a freezer in the back of my truck” line that had a bit of the luring-kids-with-candy-creep factor. But he and his wife assured me that they had just picked up said freezer with a “Free. And it works!” sign with the intention of giving it away. (They already have one. They just couldn’t let a working freezer sit on the curb.) They followed me home, dropped it in my driveway with a “we are a sucker for people with young kids. You need a freezer”, and left without my offer of gas money. Score! Now to move that beast to the basement so I can save my toes from abuse.
