What's the best trash you've ever picked ... or the worst thing you've put out on the curb? Some responses so far, from the WGBH newsroom and you.
Your stories
Kent Elliott, via Facebook: "Used to be awesome to find furniture in Allston and any other college town ... now with the bed bug invasion ... not so much ... steer clear of the stuff. Who knows? But yeah, I got a crazy awesome lamp once."
Deb from Cambridge, via Facebook: "One year I was riding through Allston and had just said to my roommate, we need to go to the hardware store for curtain rods. At the very next light I see a half dozen laying on the sidewalk, I jumped out, grabbed what we needed and we continued on our way."
Joy from Framingham, via Facebook: "The funniest story I have is looking up one day to see three guys, drinking beer in Ringer Park, on a conscripted couch 10 feet up ... IN A TREE. Somehow, they shoved a full couch up a tree and made themselves their own little clubhouse. It lasted the whole summer. Funnier part of the story is that it didn't even register as odd until one of my suburban friends who was visiting pointed it out to me."
@allstonratcity: "My self-respect and dignity." Was that given away or received? "Both. Traded one for the other."
Our stories
Ted Canova, executive editor for radio news: "I picked up a Festivus pole once."
Edgar B. Herwick III: a cooler that had been sitting out in the back courtyard, not cleaned out, for 2 years after a Fourth of July party. "It was full of stuff. Basically as best we could we emptied it out in the sewer and we left it out on the curb."
Danielle Dreilinger, web editor: a Henckels cleaver. [But frankly, if you look in my apartment, there's a set of speakers, a stained-glass chandelier, an orange-crate bookshelf that's held itself up by force of will for 11 years plus since I found it on Avon Street in Somerville — just to name a few.]
Anne Mostue, reporter/producer: "I gave a guy a rug for free on Craigslist ... and he tried to pay me to take it back but I didn't want it either ... so we just left it on the sidewalk."
What's the best or worst item you've gotten from, or put out on, the curb?
