My Craiglist Ad for Springs!

I got an email Thursday from a lady from Craigslist who had a box springs and mattress that she was giving away, and all I had to do was just pick them up. 

I am still looking for an automatic pickup truck that I can afford so I had to ask my neighbor to go get them for me. 

He could not find the house from the directions that she had given me Thursday, and it was Saturday before I could reach her again to get new directions. 

He found them this time, and he only wanted a few dollars to cover his gas so I gave him $15 and a big thank you.

I wanted to get the covers off the springs so that they could begin the rusting process using the rain that we have been getting today, and supposed to get  and tomorrow so I took the covers off when I caught a few minutes lull in the rain. 

I was very disappointed to find that the box springs were not a type of springs that I could use, but the mattress had over 300 of the hourglass type springs so not a bad haul for $15. 

What do you make from the springs?

I get this question all the time from everyone. What in the world do you want old box springs for? I usually tell them that I am going green. I take all the old springs that I can find that would have gone to our over filled landfill and turn them into useful things, and I also sell them to other folks like me who does the same thing with them. They are very impressed with my genius by then, or else maybe that look just means that they think I am crazy.

The primitive spring above is my Raggedy Old Heart Nodder. I had fun making these guys from an old vintage quilt I bought from a yard sale.  

Where do I find all my springs?

One day I was out in a neighborhood with some friends, and I found the perfect set of box springs laying beside the road ready for the city trash pickup. 

I do not own a truck though, and the only way that I could get them home was to pay my neighbor to go get them for me, but this was on the weekend, and my neighbor was gone all weekend. 

By the time he came home Monday and could go get them for me the trash pickup crew had already came by and hauled them away. 

Feeling very disappointed I called the city trash pickup number and asked them if they had any more springs to be picked up. 

The girl on the other end of the line asked me what in the world did I want with old box springs. I told her that I put dolls on them, and I also sold the springs on Ebay. 

After laughing for a few minutes about the crazy things people buy on Ebay, she promised to call me when her next pickup order came in. 

Two days later she called me back telling me that she had an order to pick up a box springs and mattress set, but that they both had to be picked up that evening because the truck was scheduled to run the next morning. 

This time my neighbor was home and could go right away and get the springs for me. He was happy when he got back because the lady at the house where he picked them up paid him $20 for taking them away so all he charged me was $10 for going and getting them for me which made me very happy also. 

I have also had friends and relatives give me their old mattresses and box springs, and I have had a little success with a Craigslist ad asking for old mattresses and box springs.  You just need to be careful with this way because most mattresses sold today do not have springs in them that we can use.