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Free: Partial cans of paint (Downtown Rochester) Promised 1d - 8 gallon cans and 11 small to medium cans of paint, of varying fullness but seems like enough to be useful for *something.* From a community theatre group, used for painting sets and such: quite a few light colors (white, peachy-beige, pinkish, light and medium-ish blues), some darker (green, dark blue, couple small containers with dark brown/black dots on top). I'd love for someone to get some use out of them! (And save me a trip to EcoPark! ;). Note that the pick-up location will be where they are currently stored, at Downtown United Presbyterian Church (near City Hall and Hochstein Music School).

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Free: Tall white cat tree (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 12d - Has seen some use, and we redid the sisal wrapping on one post, but there's plenty of scratching - and fun and great places to curl up and sleep! - still left in this cat tree. Not sure it comes apart, so you'll need a large enough vehicle to transport it (sorry!). Our kitties just don't seem to use it anymore, so - their loss, your kitty's gain! :)

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Free: Fabric rice bag (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) 16d - Fabric bag (~17.5" x 15"), colorfully printed on both sides, small handles at top (zipper at top is caput). Posting it here probably seems silly, but I'm having a hard time putting this bag in the trash and I can't come up with anything clever to do with it... hoping someone in the Trashnothing universe can. :) (An interesting pillow, perhaps?)

Free: “Come With Me Kitty” harness (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 47d - Size Medium. Just the harness, never used, and original packaging including instructions. NOTE, again, this is *only* the harness, you’d have to supply your own leash (sorry!). I bought it because I wanted the bungee cord leash that came with it as an add-on to my regular, non-bungee leash, and it works great for that. My kitty got used to a different harness, so I never tried to use this one on him. I realize this isn’t the world’s greatest offer, but hope it might be useful to someone! Could be used on a very small dog, too.

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Free: Landline phone extension (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 47d - White, light-weight, good ol’ landline phone. It’s designed to lie flat on a surface or be mounted vertically on a wall (but I’m not sure I trust the handset to stay in place in that configuration; we’ve always used it on a flat surface). Are there any other old-fashioned folks like us out there who could use this? :)

Free: Men’s XL spiked rubber shoe covers (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 88d - Officially “2X”, these waterproof shoe covers seem pretty huge to me! 13” long, about 5” wide. The spikes on the bottom are fierce. Have only been used a couple times.

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Free: Over-the-door shoe rack (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 94d - Full door length shoe rack; simply hangs over top of door. "Shelves" can be folded up (to accommodate a row of taller booties, say). Bottom shelf has come apart, but I think could be easily fixed with some glue. White and light grey; all plastic.

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Free: Tiny reading light (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 111d - This was a gift from a chorus I once belonged to; the idea is that you can clip it to your music folder and it provides additional light to see your music. Very small, very easy and ingenious… but it doesn’t provide *quite* enough light for me. Still has the (very simple) instructions and all, battery seems great (almost never been used). If not for music, I can imagine slipping the clip-thingie over the back cover of a book for reading in bed (? Never tried it, just an idea).

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Free: 3 pretty little dispenser bottles (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Expired 111d - (Well, I think they’re pretty, anyhow, which is why I can’t bring myself to just recycle them! ;) Three little pump bottles from the early days of Aveda products. 5” high. I just feel like someone might be able to use them…? Hope so.

Free: 8 Vintage pillow cases (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 111d - 7 pillow cases from long ago, when such things were hand-embroidered and/or had handmade lace. 3 sets and one singleton. Plus one modern one that just happens to be frothily lace-edged. :) They are exquisite, but I never use them, and it’s silly for them to sit in my linen closet unappreciated. Photo 1 is the first set, photo 2 is a close-up of its embroidery; photos 3 and 4 are the other two sets; photo 5 is the singleton, last photo is the modern one.

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Free: Large vintage basket (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 173d - Lovely large oval basket in good condition. Dimensions: 25” across widest width at top; 14.5” widest width on base; 10” tall. Has spent most of its life with me in my attic, which I finally decided was silly and a waste. Hoping someone out there has a great idea for using it!

Free: Vintage Sears Shop Vac (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 188d - Old but still going strong: good suction, all the attachments. The one issue is that you can’t get its specific style of bag, so you need to do a bit of jerry-rigging (which my husband has done, so you can see how, and it works fine). Letting it go because husband suddenly said “let’s get a new shop vac!” and I wasn’t about to turn down that offer! Lol (this one was becoming a bit heavy and awkward for me to wrangle).

Free: Sash weights (heavy pcs of metal) (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 194d - Hoping the folks I think of as “the metal guys” will see this. We just had the ancient windows in our attic replaced. The old ones were the kind that worked with “sash weights” - very heavy hunks of metal (iron?) on ropes. Have about 20 of them. A small but heavy trove of scrap metal. Planning to put them at the curb with a sign this coming Weds, but thought I’d try to get the word out beforehand to try to get ‘em to- well- a metal guy! :). (Dartmouth St between Monroe and Harvard)

Free: Large Mailing Tubes (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Expired 336d - 6 mailing tubes, all larger sizes including a huge one (must be about 8 ft long and ~5” diameter) down to couple that are about 3’ (see photo). All thick, heavy duty construction.

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Free: 5-disk CD player and amplifier (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 1y - 1. Sony 5-disk CD player with output cables for amplifier. [black box photo] Measures 17" wide, 15" deep, 4 1/4" high. 2. Yamaha stereo amplifier. Model A760 II, 350 watt. [silver box photo] Two stereo output speaker connections. (Speakers not included) Loose but functional speaker selector knob (A, B, or both). Measures 17 1/4" wide, 13" deep, 4" high.

Free: Witch hat decoration (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 1y - Fancy witch hat decoration (it's two-dimensional, not really a hat) - perfect for Halloween! Stands about 25" high, 27" across the bottom. Close-up shots of some of the decorative elements: purple skull, green-bodied spider, dark red-black rose, etc.

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Free: Large box of tissue paper (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 1y - Large box of tidily arranged tissue paper: some is unused, some used once, so crinkly, but still - perfectly good. Lots of plain white, as well as lots of colors (mostly smaller pieces). Fair amount of green and red for xmas, too. If you are packing up fragile items to move or sell, these materials would be very useful. Hope someone can use them!

Free: Two "wandering jew" plants (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 1y - I have two pots of this pretty trailing leaf-plant; grown from cuttings and living a happy life in my backyard this summer. Unfortunately these plants aren't good for cats, so I need to find them a new home before winter comes. Any takers? Free: Hops for Homebrewing (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Expired 1y - Hello! For you fellow home-brewers, our “Hinterhof” hops are ready to harvest off the vines, and we have a handful of quart bags frozen, each enough for maybe 4 gallons of homebrew. If you want to pick your own or pick up frozen packages, let us know! There's probably enough for several folks, so don't be shy. :) We'd be happy to supply giant bags if you simply want to cut a bunch of vines and run, and pluck the hops off later. (For the technically inclined, these are probably a variety of Olympic Hops, and here are some technical points about that variety: Hops Purpose: Bittering & Aroma (well, you probably knew that! ;) Alpha Acid Composition: 10.6%-13.8% Beta Acid Composition: 3.8%-6.1%)

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Free: Hops for Homebrewing (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Expired 1y - Hello! For you fellow home-brewers, our “Hinterhof” hops are ready to harvest off the vines, and we have a handful of quart bags frozen, each enough for maybe 4 gallons of homebrew. If you want to pick your own or pick up frozen packages, let us know! There's probably enough for several folks, so don't be shy. :) We'd be happy to supply giant bags if you simply want to cut a bunch of vines and run, and pluck the hops off later. (For the technically inclined, these are probably a variety of Olympic Hops, and here are some technical points about that variety: Hops Purpose: Bittering & Aroma (well, you probably knew that! ;) Alpha Acid Composition: 10.6%-13.8% Beta Acid Composition: 3.8%-6.1%)

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Free: Curb alert: Giant planter (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 1y - Ivory colored plastic pot with attached dish. 14” high by 14” wide. Freshly scrubbed and ready for years of use. :) First come first get at: 169 Dartmouth St, 14607. (The block of Dartmouth between Monroe Ave and Harvard St)

Free: OptiPlus Anti-Fog Lens Wipes (City east: Park-Monroe Ave) Gifted 1y - These are helpful in keeping your glasses from fogging up when you're wearing a mask. I tried several products like this back when I was wearing a mask full time; this is the best of the lot (not saying they're perfect, but better than anything else I tried). It was a 100 count box, I've used a few but finally decided I'm never gonna use them all. ;) Can anyone use them?

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