YSaC, Vol. 342: At least they’re honest.
Two entries in the “Even free isn’t cheap enough for me to want this” category:
Free ikea rug – dirty as hell
8×12 or so. Light blue with circles on it. We got it from ikea like three years ago, then our little dog peed on it a lot. I tried to clean it by washing it down outside but it still seemed to smell funny, so I put it in our shed, where a small mammal seems to have converted it into a nut and acorn storage locker. So then Sunday I put it on the curb, where it got rained on.
2 White IKEA Tullsta Chairs
Getting rid of two chairs our cat continues to urinate in. We have gotten the smell out with cleaners such as SCOEx10, but he continues to urinate in these two chairs. Additionally one of the chairs has no cushion as the dog tore it up. Pickup only email for location.
Look, we all appreciate the honesty, but at some point you have to give up and realize that no, nobody is going to want your urine-stained rug or chairs. That is, unless someone is decorating their house in an early black light disco motif, at which point the rug and chairs would be perfect.
Thanks to Lisa and Caroline for the rug entry and Liz B. for the pee chair entry!
My cat peed on this comment, but you can still read it if you want to.
One question: Does the rug still come with the nuts intact?
Where were these people a month ago when i posted an ad on Craigslist asking for urine soaked furniture?
I have such bad luck.
You never know what people will take, though. I had a falling-apart, dog-chewed, cat-pee-smelling papasan chair that I gave up on trying to clean and put out at the curb. It was gone less than an hour later.
Don’t you mean, “papa john”? 😛
The question is, did you put a sign on it saying “please pay attention to the dog-chew marks and the smell of cat pee on this chair”?
I have found there is no trash too nasty to NOT get picked up when left on the curb. I always wonder where it goes…
It’s true – I’ve put many things on the curb on moving days and it’s amazing what people can’t resist when it’s free and just sitting there!
A reply inside a reply inside a reply … how far can we push this reply feature? :0)
Some friends of mine who live in Brooklyn threw out their small faux-Oriental rug after the dog threw up on it (after ingesting the waste contents of the cat litter box, no less). Garbage day was the next day and so they were easily able to roll it up, put it outside, and not have to worry about it being in the house. A little later that evening, they went out and passed the trash at the curb … yes, the rolled up rug was gone. We are all pretty certain that whoever took it had a nasty surprise when they unrolled it; what I want to know is whether anyone took it after the people who had first curb-shopped it put the rug out with the garbage. If so, how many times was it carried off by someone who thought they’d scored a nice little rug and then found out why it was at the curb?
It’s free! It’s just sitting there!
… It’s there for a good reason!
It would have been less effort for these people to just throw their urine-soaked home furnishings away. Seriously, why go to the trouble of composing and monitoring a Craigslist ad?
Well, we all know that putting an ad on Craigslist and expecting to arrange a meeting with somebody to take your crap is a hell of a lot easier than just putting the stuff out on the curb for the garbage truck to take.
Crap nesting… 😛
Never mind!
P.S.
I really enjoy the edit commenting thing, drmk. Now the joy of keeping myself from looking like an ass on the internet isn’t just limited to Passive Aggressive Notes. 😀
Yeah, it helps after i fail my first nesting attempt every single time.
Dogface, I frequent PAN often as well. I’ve never seen you in the comments section. Do you post under a different name?
Yes I do. No real reason, except for more thoroughly obfuscating my anonymous internet identity, I suppose. Not that anyone really cares. XD
(P.S. My name is aaa, and I’m a dirty PAN whore. XD )
The trouble with both these ads lies in the posting titles –
Free nut and acorn storage locker!
2 SCOEx10 testing units!
they just need a little more ooomph.
Cat piss is the absolute worst. I’m impressed that they could get it out with anything. My cat pissed in my car once and I must have tried a dozen products to try to get rid of the smell. In the end the only one that worked was some strange candy-scented concoction, and it only worked because it replaced the cat piss smell with a stronger “candy” one.
The enzyme cleaners do pretty well as long as you can saturate the stinky area sufficiently. If you’ve tried those and it’s still there, then at least you have the “candy” smell.
I think what I find interesting is that in both cases, the products in question originally came from IKEA. Coincidence? Or do our pets know more about discerning the quality of home furnishings than we do?
Hmmmm…..