Your reasoning is sound.
What you do will not work for me. I rarely see anything on the streets...maybe a couch or chair once a year. What city situations works best for items to be left on the street. I know you mentioned a city with a wealthy area and my guess laws that allow such placement of unwanted items. Who can be successful at doing this? If you wanted to start a hashtag I will give you steem to do so.
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