Meg Rayner from Melbourne couldn't believe her luck when spotting a blue velvet armchair in "immaculate condition" on the way to a hairdressing appointment.
"I was early to get my hair done. It was hard rubbish day, so I always keep my eye out around that time," the 36-year-old says.
"I did a lap around the area [in my car] and was just cutting down a side street when I saw it on a corner. Someone was walking back into their house, so they'd just put it out.
"I jumped out, put the seats down, managed to sweep it into the back of my car. By the time I got to the hairdressers, it was raining."
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Comfy work-from-home chair to nursing corner
Meg's find became a comfy work-from-home chair during the early days of the pandemic.
After a short stint in storage while she built a new home, it's now in Meg's baby's nursery where they read together every night.
"It is the comfiest chair. My son is a very tactile baby, so he's always touching the velvet; it's quite soothing.
"I was very lucky. I don't even know where I found the human strength to put that in the car."
'It was so beautiful'
Camille McGuire and her partner from Melbourne love everything mid-century and vintage, so they were stoked to be offered a family friend's 1960s bar cabinet.
"My mum was at dinner with our family friends and their father had passed away a few months ago, so they were clearing out his apartment," the 29-year-old says.
"Mum sent me through a few photos, including this amazing sideboard bar cabinet.
"We went and had a look ... it was so beautiful."
Camille wasn't sure if it would fit into the back of the car but it was no trouble.
"We've sent [our friends] a few photos and they are happy to give it a second life," she says.
"It's definitely one of the nicest things we have in our house. It's very iconic mid-century and was bought from Myer in the 1960s."
'I plan to regift to the group again'
Before Kim from Sydney hit buy on a new desk, she paused for a moment.
"I had a brand new desk sitting in my cart … but something told me I should look on Facebook Marketplace," the 31-year-old says.
There, she found one similar being given away.
"[After a] few messages back and forth, [I] discovered that [the sellers] not only lived in my apartment complex, but on my level and were my neighbours," she says.
Kim says becoming fast friends would have been nice, but her neighbours were giving away their stuff ahead of a move overseas.
Kim is also a part of a Buy Nothing Facebook group for her area with about 1,000 members.
In that, she scored a set of plates and bowls when she was low on cash between moving homes.
"When I went to collect, my neighbourhood group friends told me they had received the set from another neighbour within the group. So it was being gifted possibly a third time," she says.
"I'm still using them now, but plan to regift into the group again when I buy a new set."
'I instantly fell in love with it'
Coming home from work one evening, Elisa Ridout spotted a few bits and pieces out on her neighbour's nature strip.
"One was this cool retro leopard-print stool, which I instantly fell in love with," the 30-year-old from Melbourne says.
"The next-door neighbours were an elderly couple who I wasn't close with at all … they had both passed away recently and their son had been cleaning out some stuff from the quite old house."
Elisa took the stool and used it as a chair for her dressing table.
Almost 10 years later, she still uses it in her bedroom to "chuck random clothes on". (Don't we all have one of those?!)
"[I] love that it's got a bit of an interesting past and is getting some use."
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