Friday, November 28, 2008
Last week, I was in a big hardware warehouse. They had all the usual drills, ladders, wheel barrows and whatever else needed for handyman type stuff.
Strangely, they also had a section of children's outdoor toys including a cubby house and a backyard jungle gym. I remember looking at it and wishing we lived here in Brisbane so I could get him the cubby house. It wasn't overly expensive but it also wasn't an amount I was willing to pay since we'll only be here for a few more weeks.
OK. Fast forward to this week. We were driving through a suburb that was having their annual large "junk" items pick up. Once a year, the Brisbane City Council will come through the neighborhoods to pick up oversized items that you can't put in your weekly bin. Things like mattresses, TVs, ovens, fridges etc.
We were on the way to the library and just laughing at the stuff that people were throwing away. Suddenly, we saw a cubby house!!!
Someone else's junk is now Aaron's treasure :)
We've put it on the deck because its been raining so much. Its also not a "house" according to Aaron. He calls it his restaurant and here he is handing out my order of fried rice.
Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek
Plus if I'm the person putting something like that out it's always good to see it's gone before the trashman picks it up. Sometimes you just don't know the right person to give it away to.
I got them a kitchen/fridge/ microwave combination though for free off a junk pile and the owners gave me a free huge bag of pretend food/cooking things too (she had it inside).