Freebees from work?

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Anyone fortunate enough to work at a place where you're allowed to take freebees home, to put to good use?

Our crating department always has "cut off" ends of pine left over, from the long sections they use for shipping out equipment. In the past, they've simply tossed the 2' to 4' pieces. For the past few years, whenever I see a stack of pine in the scrap pile, I scoop them up. I have a ton of uses for these 1"X12" pieces, included covering the entire outside wall of my man cave in the barn ;D



Take note of the nice display cabinet in front of it. Also a freebee from work they were going to toss

[trapperandhunter]

I love free stuff period !

[Admin]

I was a contractor for many years and I built a lot of stuff from the takeaways. I still have doors in my shed from those jobs and the glass door on my coop is one of them.

Free is a good thing. ;D

[patricimo54]

I am always first in line when they start a cleaning/organizing project at work. I was told to clear out an old lab, all, but the hand tools. I ended up with several extension cords. a mortar mixer, a Pyrex still, chains, water hoses, metal tables, and cabinets, numerous electrical fixtures, scrap brass and copper and on and on.

I am the self proclaimed "King of Scrounge"

Great use of the scrap lumber. It really looks good.

[sparky]

I like that!

Also one of my sayings is... if its free its for me, if it costs get lost!!

[trapper12953]

looks reat CJ ;D

[reddog15]

I'm a welder and fortunately not only I get freebees I get to make something out of them at work. Just a perk for working with a good company.

[treestand13]

I work at a hospital and every time the do new renovations I get a bunch of stuff. I have supplied my hole wood shop with cabinets some of them oak,also put some in my trapping shed, I also have a bunch of lockers. I gotten doors and may other things. I have a also got TV's, buckets, barrels. lots of good stuff. Because every time a new Dr's comes the want every thing new. This is why health cost is so dam high.

[determinator]

Not work related, but I'm always amazed to see stuff on curbs on garbage days, like couches, that are way better than mine. I guess I was raised to not be too fussy. If it works, I'm OK with it. My microwave is from the mid 80's, and works fine. I could have had a newer one for free...but, I just ask "why?"

Nice job on the man cave, CJ. I have to admire your productivity. ;D

[Jack of all Trapping]

Microwave? Whats that? I like pallets. I like the oak ones best, but they are getting harder to find. Great kindling!! I use the oak in the cookstove!!!

[patricimo54]

Apr 14, 2013 17:15:38 GMT -5 Jack of all Trapping said:

I like pallets. I like the oak ones best, but they are getting harder to find. Great kindling!! I use the oak in the cookstove!!!

I have burned tons of pallet wood over the last 24 winters

[billfosburgh]

at my old job they had 55gal plastic barrels with removable lids. we got food grade ink in them. they were paying to dump them at the dump. they said anyone could take them so i started hauling. 3 semi trailers full plus we used about 6 a day . well after i got 450 of them hauled i put an add on craigs list for $6@. couldnt keep enough on hand for the demand. well some jealous idiot at work saw my add & that was the end of that. everyone wanted them then

[Admin]

That's what happens Bill. Whenever people find out someone else has a god thing going, they all try to take it from you.

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Oct 16, 2013 7:01:43 GMT -5 Admin said:

That's what happens Bill. Whenever people find out someone else has a god thing going, they all try to take it from you.

Man, ain't that the truth. I about lost my "freebee" pine boards connection, cause of a couple whineasses

[stickbowhntr]

That was your mistake Bill. You should have sold them thru someone else so they didn't know where they came from. It's stupid they acted that way but totally expect-able . Say have your Cousin sell them and give him part of it...yea I know they were paying to get rid of them in first place but you know people.....if you making money they want to steal your idea and do the same. Shame.

[stickbowhntr]

Oh yea, and them Barrels here go for $15 each from the Amish.

[billfosburgh]

yea, i learned my lesson on that one. your right it was my fault should have done things different.
it turned out to be a free for all with these guys fighting over the drums so the company went back to taking them to the dump. when the BS started i just backed away & watched them fight over them.
that was entertainment in itself.
we had core plugs that came out of the rolls of paper & they were 6" around &2" thick. i would haul them home in fiber drums. i was heatinh my house with them. i could shovel a drum in my outdoor wood boiler & it would last almost 24 hours. well they guy that started the BS about the plastic drums asked me what i was doing with all the core plugs?
i told him there was a place in a near by town that paid me 25 cents a piece for them. sure enough he started hauling them . when his garage was full he asked me exactly where the place was, i told him they went out of buisiness. then he asked me if i would come haul the plugs out of his garage. told him i would take them if he brought them to my house ( which the dumb a** did). still got the plugs in the end & didnt have to handle them. and of course all my friends & myself at work had a GREAT laugh

[nytrapper23]

That's hilarious ,you got free labor from that idiot

[thebutcher]

My workplace is good about us taking junk. We own nothing at our place, just a storage facility. Get paid to handle others products. So we get oak skids, pine skids, plastic skids, drums, cans, plastic tarps, etc. But seems like when you get a good thing going, there is always one, just that one a**, who has no use for what it was you were getting, and complains, and that puts an end to it for a while. I have a 22' X 8' shipping container, that was given to me, by a guy who had some things delivered. It was the back off an old furniture truck, and cost too much to get rid of, so he gave it to me.  It may be the new fur shed or something if I can find a place to put it without junking the yard up and ticking the wife off.