Curb Sailing

Turtle Bug

When you live in a heavily populated metro-area with lots of students, in a town with a high turnover rate in apartment living, you can end up ideal curb sailing conditions.

Curb sailing is a little like garage sailing: but better. Goods procured from the curb are free.

Sunday afternoons are prime curb sailing time in Brookline: folks have taken out the trash and anything else they want to get rid of in their apartments for the week, and it's not too dark to make the grave mistake of picking up something you really shouldn't.

Late this winter I went downstairs to drop off some trash and I was faced with the rear of a solid wood dresser. The back was unremarkable except that it was solid wood, no press board or gaps, so I hurried around to the front to see if there were any knobs or pulls I could pilfer in the name of scavenged art. You should have seen my mouth drop open when I saw this:

By the Wayside

At first I just wanted a photo. But then I thought...I could get it up the stairs with some help and use it in my living room. It looks like something you might find in the basement of Anthropologie with scarves spilling out of it, no?

After a frantic phone call to Crystal we got it up the stairs and found it a new home:

Folklore Dresser

Someone else's trash is my treasure, for now. The beauty of curb sailing is that it's guilt-free--I didn't pay for this piece, so when I tire of it someday, I'll just haul it down the stairs and send it out into the Universe for the next scavenger to pick up.

Some other items I've found out and about:

~*A ridiculously cute-shabby-chic-mirrored-gilded plant stand:

Plant Stand

~* A space-saving-shelf for the radiator:

Radiator Shield

One important rule of curb sailing: one item in equals one item out. Bon voyage, blue velvet wing back chair!

Bye Bye Big Blue

XO TEREZ