craigslist

my husband has a fascination with craigslist.org. i'm not sure why, unless you take into account FREE! i guess the urge to save money is stronger than his ability to think about not needing things. every few days i will get an e-mail from him telling me what he is going to pick up tonight. it may be anything from pallets to toilets. yes, you read that right, i said toilets. used toilets! as most of you know we are building a house. it is expensive to build a house. so andy often curbs the price by finding stuff free on craigslist... One day he actually came home with used toilets! yuck! i have to admit that they were in good shape and looked clean, but come on, really. this is for our house, not a public space where total strangers use the same bathroom.

other things he has come home with include a white, rusty enamel sink. he and chris think that would be great in the kitchen, not! how about furniture for the house. i must say that chris is just as much of a craigslist junkie as andy. he has come home with various end tables or coffee tables. he has even taken to getting things and using them until he finds a better deal and then relisting them for a higher price! what a goober.

most recently one of the above mentioned junkies found free bricks. they thought it would be great to use these to build a patio at the new house. so, we all took the night off from working on the house to pick up some bricks about an hour away. (gas prices make these free bricks already start to get expensive...) we didn't know that in order to get these free bricks we had to disassemble a brick garden wall. so we pitched in and loaded up the trailer. before we could finish it was dark and we were being eaten alive by mosquitoes. once all the bricks were on we noticed that the trailer had a flat tire. the spare tire was also flat. so we unhitched the trailer and left for the night. the next day andy got the tire fixed and went back to pick up the trailer. on the way home this time he got another flat tire (the bricks were a heavy load). he fixed that one and then got another flat. at this point frustration set in and there was no place to pull to the side of the road, so he kept driving. soon there were sparks as the wheel hub was drug on the road. next thing he knows the trailer is on fire! i will leave the rest of this story up to your imagination, so i don't embarrass my husband further. needless to say, we now have no trailer and no bricks! so much for free. i asked if he had learned any kind of lesson?

three days later he is on his laptop when i notice a little twinkle in the eye and he says, someone posted more free bricks! this time i put my foot down. NO! I wonder what would happen if i posted "FREE HUSBAND" on craigslist?