what's the best thing you've ever got for free?

Post by **HeavyMetalMe** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:51 am

lordofduct wrote:my life

Even life isn't free.

No other econ majors here, eh?

Post by **dudex77** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:52 am

I got a fully working stereo with a record player from the garbage. It even still had the remote.

Post by **tbeeghly** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:21 am

This bad boy

Post by **gradualmeltdown** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:17 am

I was given a Mini Moog as a first instrument by an old family friend 18 years ago. It changed my entire life. It the oldest and best sounding piece of gear in my studio and always will be. Hard to keep in tune though.

Post by **Droid party** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:32 am

One of the very few advantages of working in electrical retail is that some of the faulty items don't get sent back to the manufacturer but simply have their serial number e-mail back to the supplier and then destroyed by us. Now that's were it becomes good for me, much of this stuff that we trash has little wrong with it and is fairly easy to repair. So far the best thing I've gotten was an Acer desktop PC that would not turn on. Simply brought the thing home and looked at it, figured out that it was the power supply, replaced with a spare one I had lying around and it works fine still. Now it's my spare.

Post by **Droid party** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:15 am

tbeeghly wrote:This bad boy

That is pretty fucking sweet.

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:08 am

I found a 2.1 Logitech Speaker setup by the dumpster when I was taking out the trash.
It turned out they worked fine and I've been using them for my media center PC for a couple years now

Funny thing is that it was even raining when I found them, so I figured they were drenched and ruined, but I was shocked when they still worked and sounded good!

Post by **aaron** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:33 am

SnowKitty wrote:
aaron wrote:my psp. or the wii i got.

granted i paid for these but it wasn't in cash money.
do we wanna know what you paid for them in?

i paid for the psp in carwashes, and i paid for the wii in coke rewards points.

i've also paid for an xbox in carwashes.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:14 am

I nicked copies of Dune, Panzer Leader, and Patton's Best out of someones trash years ago. They are all board games from the 70s, and Dune is worth a pretty penny.

Post by **wyatt** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:54 am

tbeeghly wrote:This bad boy

Did I not see you on that a few days ago?