The "Dishes" and "Pots and Pans" sections of the Mile Nine Dump Free Store.
The Free Store now has... well, I guess you would call them departments. Some artistic soul hand painted signs for the various sections of the two structures. They seem to have very little to do with what is actually on the shelves but the intention is there. Baby steps, people, baby steps.
I didn't find anything for us this time but I did notice a few gems.
Soy sauce bottle from the Free Store at the MIle 9 Dump in Whitehorse.
Whitehorse may not have a re-store, but it does have a free store. Locals take their unwanted items to dump and leave it at the free store for someone else to take in to their home. They say one man's junk is another man's treasure. Lord knows we got rid of enough "junk" before we left. We only brought the bare minimum so it's fun to "shop" for little extras. I did see a cute sofa but unfortunately it was covered in a mound of snow, so we passed. This week I got a soy sauce bottle, some wine glasses and a planter and Rich got a Yukon golf shirt. What can I say, we're living the dream.
At long last we found the Mile 9 Dump, a.k.a. The Robinson Dump, a.k.a. The Mt. Lorne Dump, and also the location of the fabled Free Store. Rich had spotted it earlier on his commute and we went on a family visit to plunder it's treasure, visions of sofas bouncing in my head. I almost grabbed some cash on the the way out, and then I remembered, it's free.
It's also not as fantastic as I envisioned it.
You may not be surprised by this.
I guess I had a vision of a used but nice living room set, staged kind of like you might see at ikea, with a friendly free store manager to help us make our selections and hold our choices until we could get back with the trailer. Then he would kindly help us load it and make some suggestions for colourful accents.
It wasn't quite like that. There were no sofas. There were two pieces of furniture, a broken down desk of the plastic variety and a heavily chipped veneer drawer unit. Not the weathered solid wood gem that a little elbow grease could restore to it's former glory. Not the living room set that house guests would crow over and marvel at our cleverness for getting for free. Alas, I think it might take more than one trip to the free store, some kijiji trolling and hopefully some furniture clearance sales to make our place more comfortable.
