Would you be pi##ed?
 

Remodeling and the wife decided she didn't like the dining room table.
Very heavy. 4' x 4'. Extends to 4' x 8'. Nothing fancy.
Put it on Kijiji for $50 as there are a ton for sale.

Gave up after a couple of weeks and put it on the front lawn free.

The renters next door grabbed it and put it in the lake for a makeshift dock.

At first I was pissed because I thought a family with little money could use it.

Should I be?

A wife is someone that spends $60,000 on a kitchen renovation because you want a new fishing boat. (and end up with a 23 year old one because you ran out of money. Boat, not wife)

Nope. Let it go.

"Should I be?" - No ... Move along.

Life's too short to worry about stuff like that. The best thing you can do is learn from it.

Yep. You put it out on the front lawn for anybody to take for whatever purpose they wanted to use it for.

Ya. That's what I'm trying to do.
Next time I'll put on the sign for a family and not firewood. lol

be happy you dont have to deal with it any more.

I would be angry too...but, that is just a waste of energy. You should have taken it to Goodwill and gotten a receipt for your taxes assuming they do that in Canada). Anyone that would spend a few bucks for it and drive it home would likely use it as a table...but you would not know otherwise...or care.

Large dining room tables are like fine china, no one really wants them. They were big for the boomers and the generations that followed just don't care. Look at fine antique furniture prices. Only the very best of the best museum quality pieces are still valuable. The rest is just an old piece of furniture. "Just get something brand new from Ikea".

to be honest, i get more annoyed when my neighbors put out the FREE pile/. it looks so junky.

and seriously, what is that STAIN on the mattress? and what hell did that poor couch have to endure?? :D

Nobody wants big pieces of furniture because they’re expensive and a giant PITA to move. Most people move every 4-5 years now. It’s way easier to have simple, small-ish things.

Agree. My wife and I will visit a few used furniture stores just to kill a few hours on a Saturday and there are things in there that no one will ever buy. Entertainment center wall units and china cabinets. Who wants that crap?

I would be happy it left my front lawn.

There it is...you, uh, put it basically in the street.

As a friend of mine once said when someone inquired where our obnoxious when tippsey buddy was headed: "It is not important where he goes, only that he goes."

My wife and I are planning our move from the farm in a few years and the amount of furniture we'll try and find a home for could dock the Queen Mary.

Take a walk through your (house, dwelling, apartment, compound, estate, you fill in the noun) and think about how it would look without the stuff you just keep because you feel obligated.
Life is too short to feel guilty about what you should have gotten rid of. You might even feel more at peace when less cluttered.
I wish I could completely subscribe to the philosophy, and I tend to get hung up on what I ‘might’ need sometime (which I try to limit to the garage & basement).

Thanks guys.
Wise words.
I'll let it go.
All I need is a dock beer and all will be good. I'll take a pic of the table dock. Country getto.

I always like to see anything I no longer need and cant sell be used by someone else no matter what they use it for. Repurposing the table is just as good as them using it for a table. It did not end up in the trash and you got rid of it. Sounds like a win all around

This weekend I pulled a skid out of the middle of the lake.
The table will be out there as well after our next storm.

Let it go.

You basically threw it out (in front of house for free).

Once you've given it away, you don't really have any say over what happens to it.

60K? ...yeah I'd be pi$$ed ;)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1590524971.jpg

The table is under the skid.

At least they didn't spray it with flex seal and use it as a boat.

I'm looking forward to the pics.

OK. I'm feeling your pain now.

On the upside, it looks really solid. It will last years in the current configuration.

You have my blessing when the "next storm" hits.

Burning it would have been better for your head.

Sorry about this for you. Tables have sentimental value. I'm typing on a $9 value ranch oak drop leaf table my Dad bought in maybe '64. My four year old brother said to my Dad after we looked at a bunch of used ones, "Daddy, why don't you just buy a good table".

Best let it go.

one of my office supervisors took out a bunch of wooden office furniture. he laid it in front of our dumpsters blocking the truck pickup. he told me, "someone will claim them"

on the day of the garbage pickup, i took a sledge hammer to it and broke it all down to managable sized pieces and dumped it all.

the boss guy sees the stuff missing and said, "see? i know what i am talking about. told you someone would want the stuff".

my entire office rolled their eyes in unison. i replied with a "hmm-um"

I can't wait to see their boat...

Oh yeah...that will last ;)

Wow - worse treatment than I expected - it's only providing support to the pallet.
I would have donated it to my local Goodwill/Salvation Army and claimed the $200 deduction and gotten my $50 in tax benefit.

Wow!

Your neighbors?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/88/f5...c0b91e37c2.jpg

https://i.imgflip.com/eni3d.jpg

^^^ They also built a mountain bike course that circles the house. More skids for jumps and a banked corner that ended up being on my property. Lots are 50’ wide.

Nah, get piss over that? Let it go. Don't be that guy. Tell you a story. I bought a house with three section of its foundation broken on a hillside. People looked at it and ran away fast. We came to an agreed price, and the owner's kids (owner passed) tells me they grew up in that house and the only condition was that I sign a weaver that I will restored the house to its original condition and nothing more. Windows and front doors are not to be changed. It was a POS build in the 40s with poor floor plan. Yeah right. I signed it jsut to make em' go away so don't be that guy. It is sad to see what they did with your perfectly good table.

They do? Interesting stat - from where?

Yep. You got what you wanted - it’s out of your life. Time to move on.

Wait until it's dark then tear up their mountain bike track with a motocross bike. When they come around to complain the next day just sit on your porch drinking beer and say "I don't know what yer talking about."

Is it?

Makes me cringe to look at that "dock."

That would not last on this shore.

So what. If he wanted to put contingencies on its use he should have done so. He gave it away with no strings attached. Time to be a man and move on.

Ugh but more importantly that looks like and accident waiting to happen. :eek:

That dock needa a sofa.... doncha have one to give away :D?

:rolleyes:

You miss the point. That could have been another's table that his neighbor threw in the lake. The table and the pallet top dock are a fking eye-sore.