YSaC, Vol. 661: Set a course for adventure — or maybe the doctor’s office.
2010 May 9
Unique Sand Box for kids
We have a really unique sandbox for the kids to play in – Free. We cut a 16 foot ski boat in half longways. That left the top of the boat, with the steering wheel to fill with sand. It’s gone through the grandkids and has just been getting dirty and filling with weeds. Free to the first person who comes to get it. We’re moving and it must be out of here by April 30. Call xxx-xxx-xxxx.
Ahoy, mateys! All aboard the good ship Tetanus!
By “gone through the grandkids” I’m assuming they mean “sliced off a couple of limbs with the sharp edges.”
This type of ad always amuses amazes me — it’s the “I have to get rid of something but am too lazy to do it myself or too cheap to pay someone else to do it, so I’ll post it on Craigslist and see if anyone is willing to do work for me for free” principle. Another prime example:
Junk
Come empty this room and take all
Oh, boy, can I really? Do I get to keep the raccoon-chewed insulation as well? It’s my lucky day! I hope there’s asbestos in there!
Thanks, Dixie and Sarah!
“… the steering wheel to fill with sand…”
That’s either a very small sandbox or a very large steering wheel.
Having spent some time on the littoral, using a steering wheel to fill anything is complicated, sand and similar aggregated sediments in particular.
Free weeds to the first person who shows up! Dandelions make good wine, excellent for feeding to small pets, and mulch more, too many to list. Come on down!
Free “weeds” eh? Is this some kind of code? Is danelion wine what the kids are calling it these days? 😉
Oooo, but on the other hand, if they had used the bottom half of the boat, they could have let it fill with green water and had a water park/wading pool.
Grandparents: “Say kids, it’s really hot today, why don’t you go play in the pool?”
Kids: “Oh Boy! I love it when the water is really slimy and has crawly things in it. Can I hold the babby under?”
Parents: “Well…. guess so. Here’s a plastic cup so you can get a drink if you need it. Remember to take your quinine tablets and anti-diarrhea pills with you.”
*Note – Grampdaddy did NOT post this ad on CL*
**Walks away mumbling “Why didn’t I think about this before I paid to have the broken glass playground hauled away?”**
Well, not everyone has the entrepreneurial genius of Irwin Mainway.
Thanks Windrose – you brought back a somewhat bittersweet memory for me. Long ago my father used to drop me off at a nearby elementary school to pick bushels of dandelion blossoms for homemade dandelion wine.
Nothing like sitting in the middle of acres of dandelions, in July, while EVERYBODY else is riding their bikes or playing baseball.
How I’d love to pick dandelions for my Dad again…
PS. Let’s keep the fact that I’ve been bangin’ you on YSaC as ‘our little secret’.
LOL Okay, I’ll tell him to not log on here at all, ever again, under any reason. He won’t suspect a thing. 8)
Congrats Mamma Windrose for not sucking at being awesome!
Of course I am now going to imagine all future Don’t Suck recipients as baby birds with their beaks open skyward waiting for a punch and a tasty worm 🙂
Second the congrats! And that picture of baby parrots is cute.
I could not have gotten a better Mother’s Day gift! Thanks, drmk, and everyone! You’ve given more back to me than I can even list. Bees be upon you, one and all.
Yay Windrose! You’re like the mother I already have, but in bird form.
Well deserved praise Windrose. Much thanks for the many smiles you’ve given me..……
Ah, quite, dear WindRose; and apologies for making it be like being house-mother at the Delta house
All good wishes and many thank yous are definitely in order for you, Windrose! You prove that true motherhood is a heart thing, not necessarily a biological thing.
P. S. And if I should make it to the don’t suck box, could you serve my punch with a Manhattan, please? Worms give me indigestion.
Hip Hip Hooray for Windrose!
I love that these asshats (top ad) make their problem your problem: “We’re moving and it must be out of here by April 30.” Take it to the dump yourselves, people. What do you want to bet they left it anyway?
As well, is anyone else depressed by the idea that these people are grandparents? How many generations of lazy, stupid, poor planning, and presumptuousness have these people spawned? … Perhaps that explains some of the other CL ads. Like the second one. All they need is a truck under one or the other of those windows and a shovel, the lazy bastards. I’ve actually done that, and it can be rather fun.*
*I was a teenager and with an adult-directed bunch of other ones.
I’m surprised these weren’t in the barter section, that’s normally where you see the “unrealistic value placed on worthless crap” deals listed most often. The “Re-grout all of my bathrooms and I’ll give you these bottles I found in the woods that are probably antiques.” sort of thing.
Windrose, you might want to dig out whatever protective headgear you have around. A football helmet, maybe…
Hmmm, Lost, I only have a violet love bird who likes to sit on my head. She can bite pretty viciously, however.
As a matter of curiosity is there ever a follow-up on these crazy posts? I mean, I’ve got loads of junk … sorry, useful stuffe waiting for their rightful owner / sucker …. and would love just to post it on Craigslist and see it disappear forever but there’s a little suspicious part of me thinking “no-one could be stupid enough to fall for this, surely?”
I got rid of glass shower doors and the top of a plastic dog house (dog wouldn’t get in with the “roof” on…) in about 5 minutes each on craigslist. People will take anything.
The people that came to pick up said they were using the shower doors for a greenhouse and the dog house roof for a house for chicks.
Was the person who collected the dog-house roof my landlord? There’s five chicks in my flat and the recent winter weather has made its way indoors and made me think the roof isn’t well attached to / the same dimensions as the walls. Now I’m wondering if it’s because she got a cheap replacement on CL…
When we did some minor renovation in our new house I was able to Craigslist every single ugly light fixture and faucet. Put it up for free, and someone will come for it by the end of the day. That has been my experience, anyway.
Yeah, as depressing as it is, there is almost no end to what people will take if you add the free tag to it. Nonworking microwaves, hedge trimmers, electric wombat emasculators… It’s even more depressing to realize what people will actually PAY for.
I sold a rusted hunk of a useless bicycle for $20. The cost to fix the thing up by myself was going to be more than I originally paid for the bike so I just bought a new one. I sold it to a guy who was gonna save money by fixing it up.
This would be a good time to remind everyone who hasn’t done so yet to get thee to the forum and list your birth day! Lots of new folks on here who haven’t done this yet. We have no early May birthdays, so there’s lots of room. 8)
Free “pets”
I have some wonderful
loosefree-range rodents. They will eatthroughanything. Free to the first person to come and get them from my cabinents.Low Mantahnince pets – free fur tha taken!
Verry small; nocternial; xetremly quite;
eat liddle, cumbs mostlee
U nebber eben no theys dere!
Culer id shinny bron, bout in intch big.
gots tuns od dem, jes com get dem!
I have one of those, the two inch variety actually, hanging out in the brand new, never used bathtub in my newly remodeled bathroom. We aren’t actually ready to use the bathroom yet since it still needs a door, so I decided to let him hang out since he’s not disturbing anyone. A week later, he hasn’t moved at all. It’s a bit disturbing.
Christina, if he hasn’t moved, is he on his back? 😉 The ones I find that way tend not to be inclined to move any more (thankfully). Anything as long as my thumb that isn’t moving is better than one that is – that is, if they have to be there in the first place.
Sadly no, he’s alive and well, just lazy.
Du ther be a rehomin fee fur the pets? Kin they live in one o those plastuc outdoorsy bathroom things? Will they git ‘long with the snake?
The snake will love them to death.
Thank you! That is really reassuring – I’m so glad they’ll be accepted by the snake!
-pout- I tried to register for the forums…but it rejected every email address I have, saying they have been used by a spammer. I’m not a spammer…I don’t even like ham in a can spam.
Not even Lobster Thermidor au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Preventional manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam?
Lobster Thermistat? I didn’t know they even had a furnace! That’s what I like about this blog – there’s always something new to learn, every single day.
Nicole, this is where you reach out to drmk and Dan, and they wave their magic Web Boss wands and make it all better.
She’s right, we all/many of us have had the same issue. Just send a note and they’ll fix it. 🙂
Eek.
My snark is broke though.
Eureka marathon on SyFy and Monty Python marathon on IFC.
got nothing al all
not even a haiku
I retreat away
I never thought there would be a market for “I went to grandma and grampa’s for the weekend and all I got was tetanus, a severed limb, and sand in my pants” t-shirts. Will wonders never cease???
My family had a wooden version of the first one, in our shared summer house on the cape (Cape Cod). Someone left a no-longer-useable wooden row boat on the front lawn, and my parents, aunts and uncles, and cousins decided to just leave it there… it filled with leaves, blueberry bushes sprouted out of it, and became a lovely home for the bees. Never used it as a sandbox. It’s decayed to the point now that there is no sign that it was ever a boat. Just a mound of blueberry bushes (and bee-home).
p.s. Happy Mother’s Day to everyone who is a mom or has a mom 🙂
Yikes – my avatar’s alter-ego seems to have moved out without leaving a forwarding address. I’ll return once I find the dear old fellow.
Re: second one – if they let it go for just a little while longer, the nice people from “Hoarders” will come and clean it out. For free.
Dear Mother Superior Llamanun,
Happy Mother’s Day to the One who brought us to YSaC. Without your guidance we would still be wandering in the wilderness. May your Llama always be second to Nun.
+Elebenty tuna sammiches to your Llama-ness
Hey, he’s back – which one of you found him?
It’s cache and cookies. If you change machines (or browsers) you can get different results.
Also, the gravatar image rating seems to matter, too.
You are showing, to my currrent view (1850CDT 9 May 10) as a fractal and two different muppet images. I’ll guess that if I clear cache & cookies on this machine and reopen IE, it would be just the one image.
Certainly did when taco changed his.
*Secret message to Capn – eyes only – eat this message after reading*
Actually, I mis-typed the email address in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box, so that it didn’t find the avatar. Be sure you don’t let anybody know – I’m already on double-secret probation….
Thanks!
*Pulls collar up on trench-coat and glides back into shadows, un-noticed by other YSaC denizens*
“Free to the first person who comes to get it.”
Free to the second person who comes to get it: A sinking feeling that you wasted an hour of your life trying to get a rusty, dirty half of a boat. The irony is lost on you.
If you were desperate for irony, I’m pretty sure lots of it would remain dissolved in the surrounding earth, based on the tetanus-a-licious picture.
Mmm, booster shots.
47 comments! Now that’s more like it. 8)
G’Night, Cape Cod!
Well, by posting now I can round the number of comments up to 50. But unfortunately it means I won’t see today’s edition until I get home in 12 hours or so. 8/ But I’m not complaining! *looks up complain in the dictionary* Okay, I seem to be complaining. Sorry about that.
With all due respect, the ‘free’ section of craigslist is an amazing way to get rid of crap. Really, don’t knock it (other than for laughs) until you’ve tried it.
“don’t knock it (other than for laughs)”
Do you understand what we do here?
Because I’m thinking … you don’t.
Pass. Too weak to purchase these after having already succumbed to the rash and snake ridden couches of earlier suckage.