2021/7/8 Free, just laying there on the street. Very convenient when the thing you thought you might have to buy shows up that way. I'd just as soon get something I need used from someone else and if it's free, all the better. But free has its drawbacks. It isn't that nothing of you goes into something that is free. No money, sure, but time and energy, and then space too is taken by these items. If it isn't something I really need I do my best to ignore it. Sometimes that isn't easy, it might be pretty, or strange, or just super useful looking. I'm getting better over time. The big issue is that so much of the stuff I got for free and didn't think I needed turned out to be super essential in my life later. The best example is the earmuffs. They are sound protection earmuffs that I didn't think I really needed but had thought would be a nice thing to try out sometime. I use them for so many things. Vacuuming or anything noisy, riding on public transit and meditating, meditating at home when there's noise, releasing the steam from my pressure cooker. But some things just end up unused. Their junk designation remaining true. I'm hard-pressed to come up with an example. I just went looking through my closet for something and other than a few games I haven't played yet there's really nothing I've never used, but a lot of it does only have a use on a very rare occasion. Perhaps it would be no big loss if I didn't have those things. I'll have to convince myself I'll be better off without them, one by one, so that I can live simpler and freer.