This comes at a great time since the Money Pit came with a few truckloads of trash that the previous owner did not bother to haul away themselves. Plus the crap and rotted fixtures that I threw out (so far).
It was actually entertaining in a sneaking-cookies-from-the-cookie-jar kind of way. I mean, how often have you just thrown truckloads of stuff into the street and not expect to get into trouble? I was giddy. I saw a house with a mountain a dirt, another with a mountain with rocks, and a house being rebuilt with furniture and construction debris sitting out in the street.
There were a ton of pickers out. There were a few pickers that knew each other from picking trash in other neighborhoods that talked like they did this pretty regularly. Mostly they were after scrap metal. But there were few people that specifically picking for useful things. I saw a truck hauling just kids-toys weaving through the neighborhood. Another truck full of plastic chairs. The kind thing to do apparently is lay out your "pickable" stuff for those guys, and then trash piled on another side.
So I had the roach infested cabinets out there. During the day, people were interested but realized how bad they were and left them. By nightfall someone couldn't see what they were getting into and took the entire set. I kind of felt bad.
In the picture above, there was actually a lot more that I put out, than you see. Pickers had picked about a quarter of it by the last day.
On the first day, Saturday, the professional pickers came en masse. By the time Sunday rolled around amateurs were picking for what's left, and a lot of people shopping. I was actually tempted to start looking for stuff but I resisted the urge.
I think I had the second biggest pile that I saw. The first biggest pile was the reconstructed home.
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