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That's one way to move your inventory (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] j4k3 67 points 4 months ago (3 children)

No joke, when I did eBay with the bike shop stuff, the main shop I worked out of was at the end of a residential ally at the bottom of a hill (behind the shop). Homeless people would drag couches down the hill and sleep behind the shop around once a month. We had to pay to remove them.

So the thing that actually gets dirty and disgusting with an old couch is just the fabric. The foam for the cushions is still fine. After letting it air out for a day or so, it doesn't stink or anything. That became my packing material, especially for international shipping with high end bikes.

Taking a sawzall to the couch's frame yields useful scrap wood. The fabric that makes the back of a couch is usually in near perfect condition and is a medium weight upholstery that is huge and usually seam free. If you remove this upholstery and build a canvas frame, you can paint it white and make an enormous art canvas... I should make this a YSK ...

I used old couches to make photo studio backgrounds and reflectors. The remaining waste fit into the shop dumpster, so a win win.

[–] HeapOfDogs 8 points 4 months ago

All I can think about is someone shipping you bedbugs

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