Some days ago, a neighbor invited me over because she was donating books that belonged to her husband, who died from covid during the pandemic. There were a lot of books, and even by choosing only the ones which caught my attention, I was able to get over 100 different books.

It was the first donation I have ever received and I got really happy about it. I am already halfway through The Shining, which was in the collection. So it got me thinking about donation itself.

What about your experiences with it? And I am asking about donation of things, not money.

  • BoofStroke@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Actually reverse donation. If I want to get rid of anything that isn’t worth the effort to sell, I put it on the curb and it’s gone in a few hours. This works with scrap metal too.

    I’ve also had trees and stumps removed for a case of beer.

    /redneck life

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      Same. I am a huge fan of curb-alerting large items that I can no longer use. Always a huge relief when a broken table saw that’s not worth fixing or some other large item disappears from my garage into the trunk of someone’s car.

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        1 year ago

        Told the other guy but lemmy.world/c/curbfind exists to help recreate the niche on reddit. Tell other people who were in that community also.

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      My city has a curb culture too and I love it.

      That reminds me, there was /r/curbfind on reddit. Niche, but does anyone want to make a Lemmy community (or kbin magazine)?

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        lemmy.world/c/curbfind exists my friend, my city has the same culture and love it and hate it. As there is a lot of people in vehicles going around neighborhoods making it hard to get nice items when they always take it first as I walk.

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      Every single laundry rack I’ve owned so far I have found on the curb on my street. Three different places every single time in the first few months of living there. By now I think I’d feel bad actually buying one of those things.