One man’s trash was my treasure!
We have a love seat in our office that has a pretty funny story behind it. I’ve actually had this piece of furniture for over two years now, and it’s still in pretty good shape. People are always surprised when they find out I got it out of the trash. At the time, I lived in a 3 bedroom townhouse. Our third roommate had just moved out, taking all of her furniture with her. This left us with nothing but a futon in the living room, and my other roommate and I were both pretty broke at the time. We had shopped around a little at used furniture stores, but hadn’t found anything we liked that we could afford. My roommate told me that she had seen a tan-colored love seat next to the dumpster by the pool in our neighborhood. She said she was going to call a friend of ours who has a truck to help her get it, but had changed her mind. I got all excited and was like, “We need to go get it right now!” So we called and drug our friend over to our place to help us dumpster dive for a love seat! I scrubbed it and basically used a whole bottle of Febreze, but it really was in good shape, and it’s still working out for me to this day.
