A local company was abandoning their manufacturing location here and opened up their warehouse to the public to just haul stuff away for free. Most of it was random metal brackets, sheets of plastic, etc. etc. but there were hundreds of spools of hookup wire, stranded wire, all sorts of wire worth thousands of dollars (wire isn't exciting, but it does cost money!)
I took as much as my conscience would allow....I don't think I'll ever run out of wire in my lifetime.
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