They put out this shelf and I want it, but I don’t want to seem strange? It would make a nice plant shelf, but it’s not something I can scurry away with, so people would see me while I carried it. Is that a bad thing to do?

EDIT: Never mind. Someone beat me to it. 😭

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    2 months ago

    When I lived in a college town, the last week of May was the best time to get used furniture.

    College kids everywhere abandoning all kinds of shit on the greenbelt that they had no way of bringing home.

    I’m sure there is furniture in my current home that came from some stranger college kid.

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      2 months ago

      The town I grew up in had a college and a university! I don’t think my parents bought us kids any new furniture until my dad built his own woodworking shop. I was a teenager by then!

      We always got new mattresses, because NO FUCKING WAY was mom letting us sleep on a used, adult’s, student mattress. (I never knew you could stain them, that way, in those amounts…)

      My sister still has a beautiful solid oak desk…

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        2 months ago

        Yeah mattresses, gross. Even a couch.

        But coffee tables, TV stands, bed side tables… Bed frames computer desks… So much good shit.