It's funny how things like that work. When I've tried to give away used items in good condition, no one wants them. If I put a modest price and a best offer option on the same thing, it's gone in short order. Humans, clearly, are generally not rational economic actors. Rats, however, keep their eyes on the cheese.
Rat has slipped on the banana peel and missed the memo, trash is, “Waste Management.” A business that generates hundreds of $billions in revenue. A. Modern Day miracle that did not require Merlin’s magic to turn a bag of garbage into gold.
A guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying, "Free to good home—you want it you take it." For three days, the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it.
He eventually decided that people were rather skeptical about such a good deal, so he changed the sign to read, "Fridge for sale, $50."
It's funny how things like that work. When I've tried to give away used items in good condition, no one wants them. If I put a modest price and a best offer option on the same thing, it's gone in short order. Humans, clearly, are generally not rational economic actors. Rats, however, keep their eyes on the cheese.
Simply put it in a public art show, someone will take it off your hands. It's the best way to launder that filthy lucre these days.
Rat has slipped on the banana peel and missed the memo, trash is, “Waste Management.” A business that generates hundreds of $billions in revenue. A. Modern Day miracle that did not require Merlin’s magic to turn a bag of garbage into gold.
I worked for the ( late) Wayne Hiesinger. He told me he was the best paid garbage man on earth!
Terry Pratchett has a recurring theme about that—night soil in particular.
In our parts, nightmen are literally called 'gold carriers'.
On Pratchett’s Discworld, the night soil guy became one of the most prominent citizens of the city.
Did he become so prominent that he couldn’t do his job anymore and had to look for another guy to take away his ‘product’?
I don't think so.
A guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying, "Free to good home—you want it you take it." For three days, the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it.
He eventually decided that people were rather skeptical about such a good deal, so he changed the sign to read, "Fridge for sale, $50."
The next day, someone stole it.
Put it in an Amazon box, cousin! The porch pirates will quickly take it off your hands.