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John de Bry, a Florida-based archaeologist who works with Mr Clifford, identified the bar as originating from an area that was once in Peruvian territory. Captain Kidd Aboard Ship. Most of the pirates in the area attacked ships coming from the orient with spices, silk and porcelain, he said, but Kidd was known to have taken silver bars from a ship leaving the Port of Lima in Peru. In , divers discovered what they thought could have been the remains of one of his other ships, the ton Quedagh Merchant , off the coast of Catalina Island in the Dominican Republic.
Barry Clifford, team leader and well known underwater explorer, after handing over the bar. He said pieces of wood taken from the wreck appear to be English Oak and the Adventure Galley was made in Deptford dock in London, and scraps of silk have been found in the mud and Kidd was known to have had a large amount of silk on board when he arrived in Madagascar.
He is said to have locked himself in his cabin with his treasure when his crew mutinied then negotiated his way out, offering half of his bounty as surety. He said Timothy Smart, UK ambassador to Madagascar, hoped that the discovery would raise Madagascar's profile as a tourist destination.
Mr Clifford hopes to be able to return to bring up more treasure to put on permanent display in a touring expedition with the agreement of the Malagasy government. But with a tumultuous political environment and the inevitable excitement his discovery will generate, he fears bounty hunters could queer the pitch. Capt Kidd is rumoured to have hidden much of his loot before he was killed and is said to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson when writing Treasure Island. Accessibility links Skip to article Skip to navigation. Tuesday 18 December Petersburg in , Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre has been captivating Scottish audiences since settling in Glasgow almost two decades ago.
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VisitScotland uses cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By using our website you consent to our use of cookies. Please read our new privacy and cookies statement for more information. Add to basket Remove from basket Plus Minus. Finding great trash is both art and science, my frugal friends. But how do we come to possess such divine and free delights? The very nature of trash finding requires you to not care what other people think. The spendy-pants among us would rather rack up debt and squander their savings by purchasing brand new furniture, clothes, and custom hound coats.
Plus, dogs are great trash find companions—you could outfit them with a doggy backpack and have them help you haul your goods! Make moving days your business. Anything that equals lots of people moving will equal massive amounts of giveaways. FW is a champ at knowing when moves are afoot and he puts out the trash find alert when he senses stuff on the horizon. FW and I eschew the concept of actually opening trash bins. Here in the snowy northeast, trash finding is a non-starter from November to April. Shockingly, no one sets out piles of giveaways while there are snowbanks as tall as Frugal Hound.
Hence, summer and fall are our high seasons. This pile was easy to assess and dismiss on sight: Saturdays and Sundays are prime trash find evenings. No one wants to dig through actual trash barrels, so we find it far more efficacious to scope on the weekends when people are more likely to clean out their attics and leave the unwanted discoveries on the roadside.
If you encounter a sweet trash find, beware of leaving it alone to go retrieve your car. Best to use the buddy system and deputize one person to guard the prized trash. I once sat on top of a free desk by the side of the road for the better part of an hour while I waited for Mr. FW to get off work and drive the car over to me. It was a tactical move, I had to think fast and leap atop the desk for fear of another hunter taking my treasure. FW to report that we had a desk and that he only needed to bring the car around. But I had no worries, a good desk is worth waiting for.
This only happened to Mr. Frugalwoods and me once. Being consummate frugal trash finders, we started to pick it up and walk off. Fortunately, its owner dashed out and asked us to cease and desist in stealing her table. In our defense, this table appeared to be abandoned next to the trash barrels on the curb.
Let this be a lesson in not leaving your furniture unattended when Mr. FW and I are in the vicinity. We thought for sure that Mr. No one emerged and thus, Mr.
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FW is well outfitted. Both are valid means of securing your trash. You never know what fiddly little items you might want to tote home, which is made vastly easier by the presence of a bag. As you approach a potential trash bonanza, use your eyes before your paws.
What sort of house is the pile in front of? Does it look clean and detritus free? Is there an odd mold or odor emanating from the pile? When in doubt, walk on. Be discerning in the trash that you collect. After all, it is stuff and no one wants to be ruled by their stuff —which is almost guaranteed to happen if you have too much of it. With furniture in particular, think twice before grabbing that Ikea coffee table.
Does it look like Frugal Hound assembled it? Will it even survive the trip home? Conversely, I always pounce on finely crafted wood furniture. To find great trash is a virtuous cycle. Go forth and may you turn to treasure what others have so carelessly tossed away! Thank you for your advice! But I digress…happy day to you, Italy!
We did in in fact buy a used mattress. But it was from a very nice older couple in a super wealthy neighborhood who used it in their guest bedroom. We gave it a thorough inspection and decided it may never have been slept on! Wow — I had no idea how much went into this process! Thanks for laying it out. I have gotten a few free things off of Freecycle, though.
Maybe because the culture already embraces free stuff? When I lived near a university — I would pay attention to when dorm move-out days were. Sometimes you would get students throwing out so many interesting textbooks, or entire wardrobes! Also — checking out the apartments near campus that students tended to live in at the end of the school year would yield some great finds too! Oh man, students throw out the best stuff! Especially the foreign students who are returning to their home country overseas… they have an entire apartment worth of stuff to get rid of! Sometimes there are garage sales, but plenty of times it just all ends up on the side of the road.
I found the craziest move-out in November of all months at the college apt. It was a Saudi student moving back home apparently. Oh, and the suitcases went to my neighbor. Her son was traveling for Thanksgiving and needed to buy luggage. I set them out by the curb, she drove by, and the rest is history! The suitcases were the nice hard-sided kind with the wheels that spin degrees too. Her son was thrilled! I live in Virginia in a college town. There is a law making it a misdemeanor to take any items thrown away off the street or trash pickup dumpsters.
Also the dump sites in the county forbid it. Many new and useable items go to the landfill because of this. In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada we have the same law but it is rarely enforced. Sept 1 is like christmas day around here! We troll the student hoods in our sweet van with all the seats out. My neighborhood has a Facebook page and people are really good about posting stuff they are giving away. Regardless, it makes life much easier! I wish our neighborhood was better organized! Our neighborhood has a Really Really Free Market once a month in the park, so my advice is to check and see if there is one of those in your area.
If people leave stuff out between the markets, they usually put a curb alert on the neighborhood list serve.
I started doing this after I had people actually come and knock on the door to make sure they could take the stuff on the curb. Conversely, my aunt and uncle had their sewage pipe back up and flood the house. They had to get rid out mountains of sewage soaked stuff. They put a big sign out front warning everyone of the danger, but people took stuff anyhow. Never heard of that market before, that seems amazing! Good on our aunt and uncle for the warning sign. Great tips for finding abandoned treasure!
We leave in a small town and a tip I might add for small-town dwellers is to not be afraid to walk the alleys. We have actually found some antiques this way secretary, blue Ball canning jars with nickel lids.
Nevertheless, when the fancy takes me to recover Rachel, I shall come and fetch her. I followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms on the table. All through the evening they kept thundering away. Livesey came late one afternoon to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my mother, and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had no stabling at the old Benbow. Had they gone and told Silver, all might have turned out differently; but they had their orders, I suppose, and decided to sit quietly where they were and hark back again to "Lillibullero.
Yes, the greatest tip is to be a Frugal Weirdo and not be afraid to take it! Also, if we are ever in doubt that something might not be trash, we knock on the door and ask. It never hurts to be absolutely sure. Frugal Hound is an essential part of the team! Good point on alleys. Interestingly enough, our landfill here has specific drop off spots for specific items furniture, bikes, appliances. You can actually drive in and claim items — for free! Downside of living in a fancy neighborhood.
Our apartment has a trash room though and people have a habit of tossing quality things, like the Roadie Case Hubs found that is totally awesome. There is a barcode on the back people! I think a lot of people end up in a fit of cleaning. All the better for us frugal weirdos! Garage sale season is prime time for this.
The table was one of the first things to go. I miss living in a place where people leave free items out. The fact that I try to never leave the house probably hinders my trash hunting also. Hubs tends to find things on his way to work though. His eyes are honed for tools and equipment and he never brings home anything pretty. Ole Frugal Hound does make the process of discovery much easier. She gets at least one lengthy walk per day, and we try and vary the route so as to maximize discovery potential.
In the Indiana countryside where I grea up, piles of good stuff were placed by the roadside and we mom did pick up a bunch of useful, perfectly good things.
It was the worse when she stopped at house where we knew the kids. Maybe there is a higher frequency of yard sales here instead? One way or another, it will be gone in at most 7 days. I love that you had to sit on that desk for an hour! Did you feel silly after a while?
Well, now I realize that no one really cares and if they do, I dont! FW had been desk-sitting for way too long! Hard to compete with people making a living at it. That chair reminds me of the old Volkswagon commercial. The town where we went to college was much less wealthy though, and still had lots of great stuff to be found… so I dunno. Evey hit the after garage or yard sale pile? At least around here, the pickings are pretty slim by that point.
That being said, May 14th through June 1st will have us on the hunt for our outdoor furniture and a grill, because I know I can get some for free on college move out days currently we are sitting on overturned buckets, and our grill is actually an oven which simply will not do this summer. I always see that sort of thing during moving season. Especially if it has even the tiniest rust spot. Never forget your list and the budget.
And, bring charisma to get discounts!