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July 30, 2016 at 6:58 am #852729
935ParticipantBroken IKEA furniture. Various building materials – old brick…scrap boards, small and angular pieces of plywood.Ugh – an old box spring on the corner of Admiral and 38th (or 39th) on planting strips or sidewalks with a sign on them indicating they’re “FREE” – lucky us!!
How do people think this is OK behavior? Creating litter with their garbage and their signs. IF you want to give away your stuff, take it somewhere, Goodwill…SVDP, Second Use, Habitat (some of these places will come pick it up!!) If they dont want it, its probably garbage… call Wate Management and get a Bagster. Or call a junk removal company. Please STOP littering west Seattle with your offcasted, unwanted items. You are not contributing to a utopian society – you are a disgusting litterbug.
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July 30, 2016 at 7:37 am #852732
miwsParticipantAugust 2, 2016 at 5:48 am #853030
935ParticipantAugust 3, 2016 at 11:50 am #853192
seaopgalParticipantWondered if that was the same stuff … but at least now you know who “owns” it, so you could try talking to them directly. Maybe ask them to put a time limit on it, agree to dispose of whatever is still there this weekend.
August 28, 2016 at 7:44 am #855885
935ParticipantMore FREE garbage at 47th and Charleston…. a broken down “bunk bed” – ‘sure take our word for it..all the pieces are there..’
Along with the remains of what looked like a terrible vacuum cleaner.
Thanks for making our neighborbood look like garbage.
August 28, 2016 at 12:05 pm #855918
JanSParticipantthis has been done since time immemorial. What I object to are the people who put couches out, chairs, mattresses, that get drenched in the rain, grow mold, and they still think someone will take them. I suppose one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, they say. I just don’t get it.. But is is nothing new.
so, 935….you cruise neighborhoods looking for trash? a hobby of yours? ;-)
August 29, 2016 at 9:08 am #856047
935ParticipantOh how I WISH I had time to make it a hobby!. The problem is, this has become so prolific in our neighborhood, it is common to see during a run to the grocery store, or to the library, or sometimes, just out for a walk!
JanS, yes, the couches and chairs etc are always a head shaker. Mattresses? just ick. ICK. Unless (in an emergency and then still probably not) placed in one of those hermetically sealed mattress bags. But then, if you can afford one of those, you probably don’t need to pick up a soggy, dead skin cell ridden “freebie”.
My personal “favs” (aside from JanS’) computer monitors, tube TV’s, and any electronics – left out in the rain – smart
September 6, 2016 at 3:11 pm #856913
935ParticipantIf anybody is looking for an old, outdated dishwasher that “works great!!” For FREE… lucky us….
You can find it just south of the corner of 35th and Dawson.There are several websites that you can list that stuff on to get rid of it.
STOP cluttering our neighborhood!!
September 6, 2016 at 4:45 pm #856919
whyParticipantIf anybody needs a sofa without any cushions there’s one waiting for you on the corner by Holy Rosary Church on SW Roxbury St!!!
September 7, 2016 at 8:17 am #856978
JoBParticipanti suspect a few voices would be stilled if you actually saw two people carting what you consider junk away because they have nothing better to use..
what i would like to see is a better community recycling station that allowed people to leave old but still salvageable furniture where people who need it could cart it away.
one of the things i do when i travel is pay attention to recycling options and i have seen several places where this concept is in good use.
September 7, 2016 at 8:41 am #856984
935ParticipantJoB, there are several groups on bookface, there is that guy Craig, from San Francisco – he has a list….There is Goodwill, SVDP, Habitat, on 6th, there’s a place for use, secondly….There are PLENTY of options. Some of these places will come pick up the stuff, if it’s still serviceable – which it’s often not, its just plain c-@p.
Fact of the matter is: people have become too durned lazy to properly dispose of their junk. So, in some misguided ‘utopian’ mindset – ‘oh I’ll just give it away” they clutter the streets and alleyways with their refuse. It has GOT to stop!
I am bummed enough to see the tent city’s garbage explosions – I certainly don’t want to see it perpetuated by lazy home owners/renters.September 8, 2016 at 12:13 pm #857101
935ParticipantHEY HEY!!
Go grab a rained on, spray painted (tagged perhaps?) Couch/lounger!!48th and Raymond
STOP CLUTTERING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!!
September 8, 2016 at 3:54 pm #857124
JanSParticipantso…you’re going to post something every day? Do you ever call the city to come pick this stuff up? Or do you just grouse about it?
September 10, 2016 at 11:01 am #857290
seaopgalParticipantI’m with 935 all the way. Take some responsibility, people! BTW, there’s a black “leather” sofa in the cul-de-sac on Hudson, just west of 42nd, if anyone is interested.
September 10, 2016 at 2:24 pm #857309
wsn00bParticipantWould it be legally safe from a defamation angle to name/shame the exact house numbers with photos of the dumped stuff on a public Tumblr like page?
September 12, 2016 at 2:14 pm #857522
935ParticipantHow ’bout a busted up looking Nordic Trac trainer?? Yours to pick up at 106th SW and just west of 28th SW.
Water soaked signage indicates its been “available” for a while!!Come and get some free garbage!!
September 12, 2016 at 2:42 pm #857525
anonymeParticipantMost of this crap, especially the old sofas, mysteriously appear on the right of way overnight. It then becomes the problem of the poor sap whose house it was dumped in front of – so it would be really unfair to shame & blame the homeowner who probably had nothing to do with the dumping. This happens a lot on 35th; for a while last year, a new piece of junk was appearing about once a week.
Though I don’t in any way condone this kind of dumping, I do think there should be an easier and less expensive way to dispose of stuff like this. Not everyone has a truck, or can afford to hire one – plus a dump fee. A good solution would be a flat fee (like the $30 dump fee) for curbside pickup, added to the utility bill. It might actually be lucrative for the City to add such a service.
September 12, 2016 at 2:57 pm #857529
dobroParticipantSeattle garbage pick up has a fee based “Bulky Pickup” option.
http://www.seattle.gov/util/MyServices/Garbage/HouseResidentsGarbage/ExtraorBulkyGarbage/index.htm
September 12, 2016 at 3:46 pm #857535
anonymeParticipantThanks, Dobro. I guess there really is no excuse then, is there? Now that I think of it, if you can drive the couch down the street, then you can damn well drive it to the dump.
I will admit to occasionally putting stuff out in my driveway with a “free” sign, usually plants, but sometimes other things. My rule is, anything not gone after 24 hours is taken back in. And it’s usually posted on Craig’s List as well. Most items are gone long before then.
September 12, 2016 at 6:28 pm #857545
wsn00bParticipantMy anecdotal observation about parking strips with “Free” stuff or illegally dumped stuff is that they are already sketchy patches to begin with. I don’t recall seeing dumped things on well maintained parking strips. It is usually a weed-ridden dumpy looking planting strip. 35th Ave SW is full of super sketchy planting strips (there are a few rare exceptions). Broken windows theory or some such thing. Some houses parking strips/front yards are so badly maintained, a dumped couch might improve the look :)
September 13, 2016 at 12:00 pm #857619
JoBParticipanti think it’s too easy to assume that everyone has access to the internet and the means to go pick things up…
I too would like to see a more ordered solution.. but one day’s email from one of those ‘free” groups was enough to convince me that this was not the way i was going to participate.
and goodwill is getting really picky about what it takes these daysSeptember 14, 2016 at 12:32 pm #857738
JanSParticipantwsn00B…you assumption is that only people who are already “slobs” do this – yeah, you know…lower class people. Well, not so…plenty of nice parking strips in neighborhoods like Admiral do this…or Genessee Hill (yeah, I did it when I owned a home that was meticulously maintained, more than 20 years ago – it ain’t a new thing), or wherever. Like I said…one man’s (or woman’s) transh is another’s treasure. It’s not a class thing, really.
September 14, 2016 at 2:40 pm #857749
anonymeParticipantThere are homeowners on 35th who struggle to maintain the right of way, despite the constant onslaught of trash tossed out of passing cars. Some have given up, while many other properties on that corridor are owned by absentee landlords. That does NOT mean that people who live on 35th (we’re all low lifes, apparently) somehow DESERVE to have all manner of assorted junk dumped on their doorsteps in the middle of the night. Nor does junk magically appear only on “sketchy” looking properties. As I recall, the original rant concerned junk in the Admiral District…
I suspect that 35th gets a larger share of this abuse because it is a major thoroughfare where it is easier to dump and run.
September 14, 2016 at 5:09 pm #857764
wsn00bParticipantSigh. I didn’t directly connect the unmaintained parking strip point to wealth-based classes or being a “low life” (whatever that actually means). You guys are insinuating that and getting wound up about it. Plenty of well-to-do folks have badly maintained parking strips. There are some nice houses on 35th that have badly maintained planting strips too. When I drive down 35th or other parts of Seattle and see dumped stuff, my personal observation (which is not a generalized principle or generalized accusation towards groups of people) stands as I see/remember it: My memory notes junk dumped only on sketchy planting strips.
If you’ve noted junk on well-maintained strip – great! Enjoy that anecdote which is no more true or false than the anecdote I’m sharing.September 28, 2016 at 10:14 pm #859292
935ParticipantFree couch!!! Come and get it!! Just mising the left cushion, but its on the corner of California SW and Walker SW….come get it before it rains!
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