Arpie: I live a half mile from the Dufort Mall and want everyone to know it is alive and well. A roofed over area with shelves on the right when you enter the dumpster site even has a sign over it that says "Dufort Mall." The stuff there is stuff that is too good to throw away. Most often clothes, old lamps and books. I'm reading one right now that I picked up there. My eight year old daughter is sure dissappointed when I don't take her to the dump with me. She's a sucker for anything pink

I have picked up every window I've seen there and now have enough to build a green house and let light into my kid's treehouse. I've also picked up every ski I've seen there. I mostly use the skis for pea and bean trellises, but I have enough now to build a fence. My favorite pickups are two nice old bikes, a black english racer three speed, and an early seventies era Schwinn Suburban upright ten speed town cruiser.

I see all sorts of folks shopping at the mall and only get upset when I see folks coming to clear the shelves of everything to resell somewhere else. But' I don't get too upset, because I like the fact that the mall has no rules. A bit of anarchy is nice in our overly ruled world, even if I did see my old dining room light at the Sagle Swap a few months later. The Dufort Mall runs on karma.

DFO: The Dufort Mall is actually a dump between Sandpoint and Athol, where locals go to find used treasures. Arpie's wonderful post is a follow-up to the one Mommy Dearest made on her BrodH20 blog here.

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