Day 25: I Got the Big Bamboo

Boy, the switchboard really lit up for this offer. Easily triple the requests I got for the weed wacker, so I must take back what I said about how valuable items generate the most response. This is the most monetarily value-less thing I have tried to give away thus far, and ironically it has the most would-be takers. People are seriously pleading for this bamboo that we cut down from the edge of our lawn over the weekend.

The response is so heated probably because I inadvertantly am offering something that, while maybe not illegal, is environmentally immoral. Most people want to come dig it up for their own yards, because you can't buy bamboo: it's a terribly invasive nonnative speciies. Which is why we cut so much of it down. So, the three people who actually read past "free bamboo" to understand that it was an offer of CUT bamboo are more than welcome to whatever they can cart away.

I feel good about this one: we're providing macaw food/toy/beak file fodder, the raw materials for home school kids to make flutes with, and -- though this woman seems to have changed her mind -- a way for a bored student on summer break to liven up the balcony of her apartment. But mostly because through the magic of Impedimenta we, collectively, changed a heap of stuff to be dragged to the landfill (compost area, not dump!) into the raw materials of creation, both of music and macaw poop anyway.