This Damn House

Yesterday, we had a huge, ungainly broken treadmill in our basement. We were sure we'd have to figure out how to lug this 300 pound monster to the dump. And all that metal and electronics filling up the landfill, releasing toxic chemicals...oy.

So we tossed it up on Freecycle without much hope. Who the heck wants a broken treadmill?

This morning a guy came to take it away. No dump lugging! He makes a hobby of fixing and reselling broken treadmills. (?!) No landfill! He makes a few bucks selling it, we save a few bucks not paying to dump it, and the environment saves a few virtual bucks for not having to absorb the destruction of one big piece of equipment and the manufacture of another.

win-win-win. How cool is that?

(Hey, I'm still maintaining a list of all the freecycling I've accomplished, as well as my freecycling failures.)