I will try to simplify this story for you.  It goes back a few months to when a man came in to the shop and asked if I'd be interested in some framed prints and things they were cleaning out.  I told him I would and so he brought them back in.  I purchased them and we visited about their plans of preparing their home for sale and moving out of state.  As it turns out, they had already taken 3 pickup loads to the dump.  Included in those loads was a bear collection and a doll collection.    He said, "You don't even want to know what all we've taken to the dump!"  That's when I told him he was right and I didn't want to hear any more.  It just makes me sick.  Think of the charities that could've benefited from those collections!  UGH!  I begged him to stop at the shop on his way to the dump the next time. 

That brings us up to yesterday morning!  He stopped and told me he had a couple of things he thought I might be interested in.  I went out to look and one was a beautiful stained glass mirror, made by his wife's mother.  The other thing was a stained glass lamp, also made by her.  They were both just "ridin' high" on the back of his flatbed pickup.  He did have it tarped.

Along side these items were several black plastic bags and some rubbermaid containers.  I asked if it was all going to the dump because I could put the containers to good use.  Then I asked what was in the black plastic bags.  He told me he didn't know because he wasn't allowed to look.  I said, "Ok, I will!"  The first bag I opened contained a doll.  I asked him to set that bag on the sidewalk and told him I would take care of it for him.  The next bag I opened was a bag of board games.  LOTS of board games.  The list just goes on.  There were probably 6 bags total.  I am constantly amazed at what people will just throw away!