Too Funny I LOVE IT! I too have been wanting a few of them and plan on custom painting some serious beachy stuff on one for a friend and a few with flowers and whatnot on some for here in my gardens..

Happy Gardening
Donna

Are you a Garden Junker?
I love the Garden Junk Forum and yes I am one! Hubby and I found this on our evening doggie walk . The seat was gone but I wanted it to put plants in. I know he loves me as he carried it proudly
about 6 blocks home

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Goldenpond,

I am a garden junker. I love it!! I need so many plants still to fill my garden, I can't afford everything I need for trellising, seating, etc plus plants.

I love your little bench. I would have grabbed it too.

This was the item I found before the chair....one of those yard windmills (missing the windmill). I use it as a trellis and it's perfect. I can't beat it for it's 7 foot size.

Martina

I love that trellis.It will soon be covered with those happy Thunbergia flowers!
Here is some of my earlier junk.

Here is a link that might be useful: junquetiques

Great finds you guys! I am a junker too. my too DH's distress. lol

Very nice pictures, Goldenpond. Thanks for sharing them.

I do NOT call myself a Junker!

I'll have you know that I come from a long line of Dumpster Divers. Five generations to be exact!

Martina, I LOVE your trellis.... You should of seen me weeping over the metal bin at the county dump. There was the exact same windmill base in there. (They don't let you take things...Grrrr...) But my van was between me and the dumpster police and it hid the bin from their view. I tried to lift it out with a metal thing I was discarding there, but I just couldn't get it untangled from the other metal scrap. Boo...hoo...hooo...hooo....

Funny, they probably just want to go through it themselves. The lady that runs the one offof Hwy 39 pulls stuff out all of the time. She was standing by the dump as we were offloading stuff and was pulling it out. Some other guy was on the side of us just asking us for some of the things we were dumping. She didn't say a word to him.

I noticed my neighbor put out the frame of one of those screen rooms and I KNOW I could have used it as a trells which I need but I was on my way to work and I didn't want to get dirty and sweaty so I left it. When I came home a few hours later, someone actually stole what was mine!!!
I've gotten several wicker pieces from curbside shopping. Wicker for heaven sake why would people throw that out!

I'm pretty sure it is liability issues with the gov. But, I agree that some do get away with it. I went for the windmill base because I am on good terms with the peeps that work at the Thonotosassa one on Hwy 579 near I4. And I thought it might just lift right out of there...alas...

I was at the Hwy 39 one once and saw several radiators set to the side. They are full of copper, don't ya know...

Our dump actually has a place where they set things aside and you can get them. I've never been there, but people say there's some pretty cool stuff there. I don't have a pic, but I found an old ratty wicker shelf on the side of the road, brought it home, and now have a vine growing on it. I took all the shelves out. The wicker is now disintegrating, but the frame is fine. It looks kinda cool out in the garden.

I'm eyeing an old cheapo metal vanity that has been sitting outside the abandoned house next door forever. I'm thinking outdoor "plant stand".