re: Glad people are too stupid/lazy to fix stuff and leave it on the curb for the garbage man

Neighbors were moving and left a brand new Speed Queen clothes dryer at the curb with a note attached saying 'works fine'. Jr and I snatched it up, tested it, and he sold it on FB Marketplace for $400 the next day. He and the buyer made out well.

Why don’t you and Lamont just say thank you?

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I'm putting 2 pretty nice end tables on the curb soon. Carbs are ok.

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I picked up a king sized head and foot board and rails directly next door to us last summer and spent about $30 on paint and about 8 hours of labor refinishing it and sold it on Marketplace for $2700. I make a pretty good living but that is $325 an hour ($100 for paint and sand paper and wood filler) for doing something I enjoy doing. If that is poor I am poor as poor gets...and happy doing it.

I can, as we speak, go on marketplace this morning and find a washer and dryer free within 10 miles of the house, go get it, hook it up, if it doesn't work spend about 20 minutes finding out why, go to Fox appliance and get the parts for around $50 and have it back on marketplace by 4 or so in the evening and it will be sold within 3 days for $500. I may have 3 hours and $50 in it so I would make $150 an hour, cash, doing something I enjoy doing. I make slightly less than that in salary and benefits at work doing something I enjoy but not as much as tinkering with machines and furniture. It ain't for everyone, I know many of you have to work 60 hours a week to make ends meet. I feel for you, I use to have to work 80 and 90. I work 40 or less now and make a pretty good living....but I still enjoy tinkering with shite and figuring out what is wrong with it. If you lack the skill and you do not have the time because you work 60 hours a week there is some debate about who is poor....

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I live in a retirement town and you wouldn't believe the sh*t old white people throw away. I flip old mowers and weedeaters all the time. My generator came from the curb and still had the lowes tags on it.

Most old people nowadays have no idea what it's like to work to fix something instead of just spending money on something new and throwing the old away.

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Most people do not have the skills required to fix things. Not a bad thing, its just the way of the world. It is amazing how many people find it a sign of wealth to lack basic mechanical skills and enough leisure time to fix shite....that is some weird, twisted logic. Take a look at how those wealthy frickers drive to work in the mornings....its obvious they will be run off if they are late because they are endangering their lives to get there on time. That is, in my opinion, about as poor as poor gets but lots of people live with it....

I once changed the pad in a Swifter broom all by myself rather than throw it out.

I am sooooo cool.

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This is like the male version of girl math.

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Truth be told if I knew how to repair small engines and replace carbs, belts, chains, hoses and the like- I’d have a shite ton of crap in the garage.

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I'm with you and OP. I've picked up things that I was curious what was wrong with them and if I could repair. A homesite chainsaw comes to mind. Neighbor sat it out on the curb with a new bar and chain. All it needed was a primer bulb and fuel line. I call it my lil limb cutter. I didn't need it because I have a Stihl farm boss, but I enjoyed the challenge of diagnosing and making it run again.

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The people claiming they are too busy to do it and villifying anyone who does as a poor bastard on meth are most likely either working 60+ hours a week to pay for their shite or they are playing golf or fishing in their leisure time and do not have the skills to repair shite. Nothing wrong with any of that but if a person enjoys fixing shite, has the time and the skills and can make their hobby pay for itself or nearly so I can't imagine judging them for their hobby.

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Come pick my weed eater up and see if you can fix it. I’ve put 3 carbs on that bastard and still having fuel issues

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Put it on the curb and I’ll pick it up and do it.

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congratulations
i sent an email the other day and made 2k…

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I had a side hustle from 2010-2013 as the super cargo for a shipping company in Jacksonville that required me to send an email a week that paid $2000 a month in foreign earned income. I still picked up shite and fixed it because It is a hobby. I enjoy wood working, I would guess I have about $15k in tools, all of which were bought when I would pick up a piece of furniture and repaired it and refinished it. Also perfected the skills to do so efficiently in the process. The posters here claiming their time is too valuable are completely discounting the fact that it is an enjoyable hobby for some...and some of us have been smart enough to get to a place where it takes 40 hours a week or less to make our nut....

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My neighbor gave me an Ryobi electric push mower.

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I had a neighbor give me one and I have been turning it into a remote control lawn mower. I works but it has glitches LOL. Its a fun project though...