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That's one way to move your inventory (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No joke, when I did eBay with the bike shop stuff, the main shop I worked out of was at the end of a residential ally at the bottom of a hill (behind the shop). Homeless people would drag couches down the hill and sleep behind the shop around once a month. We had to pay to remove them.

So the thing that actually gets dirty and disgusting with an old couch is just the fabric. The foam for the cushions is still fine. After letting it air out for a day or so, it doesn't stink or anything. That became my packing material, especially for international shipping with high end bikes.

Taking a sawzall to the couch's frame yields useful scrap wood. The fabric that makes the back of a couch is usually in near perfect condition and is a medium weight upholstery that is huge and usually seam free. If you remove this upholstery and build a canvas frame, you can paint it white and make an enormous art canvas... I should make this a YSK ...

I used old couches to make photo studio backgrounds and reflectors. The remaining waste fit into the shop dumpster, so a win win.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, just to be clear. You took a homeless person's bed and used it as scrap to send to paying customers?

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Yup, kicked them out and cleaned up their mess. It was really this one schizophrenic man Joe. He would beat off to any girls in the parking lot. He was a funny guy. I bought him lunch often, but had to kick him off the property during business hours. The poor guy smelled terrible.

To be more clear the neighborhood skater kids were the ones that usually dragged the couches down and then Joe would sleep on it if it was there. He had bedding and stuff. I usually left a couple of old bike boxes out for some extra padding. He slept under the overhang that was beside the parking garage.

I'm smart enough to have both empathy and business sense enough to know how to run one. Bike shops have untenable low profit margins and are mostly a hobby business at best breaking even. No one on that kind of pay and budget can save or house the world.

"These are not the billionaires you're looking for. Move along." 👌

[–] HeapOfDogs@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

All I can think about is someone shipping you bedbugs