View of the trash

These chairs look pretty nice, no visible defects or signs of excessive wear. The trash men won’t be around until the morning, and I’d bet the chairs will be gone. Many New Yorkers furnish their homes with furniture found on the curb. It’s cheap, ecologically correct, and entertaining. You never know what you’ll find, you learn about your neighbors (do they have good taste, are they fellow trashpickers, do they hoard?), and it’s a creative challenge to envision what a coat of paint can do for a cast-off shelf or table.

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Are those tall shelves safe? (är det högväxt bordlägger kassaskåp?)

Ikea, Red Hook

You don’t know who reads this stuff. On the off chance you’re from Ikea headquarters, let me share my (automatically translated) thoughts :

Du behöver tio objekt, eller mindre fodrar!

Really! We are impatient New Yorkers who go all squirrelly when we have three things in our basket and every line is filled with people setting up house with carts of bulky items. You need a ten items or less [sic] line!

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