Unspecified

Barbie And Ken Doll Clothes

5 skeins- not looking for much and you can have it if you’ll come pick it up

Wool Yarn Rowan Felted Tweed Green

Have you got one of these? Even if it’s wrecked/stained I’d take it. I need it in the wider width, at 30” but 32” or 34” is better.

ISO ikea Ringblomma Roman Shade

Willing to trade a few at a time if your project requires them. 

Would not be looking for much. 

Just looking to be helpful to others, as I wish I could have grabbed a few off someone rather than having to buy this whole package!

Drywall Anchors

Hi tradespeople and DIY’ers,

Marrettes in many sizes, for your re-wiring projects. 

Can trade some for whatever your project requires. 

Located north of Christie pits.

Marrettes/ Wire Connectors

Hi all, 
I have sandpaper in grits from 60-2000.

Some standard wood stuff, some is wet/dry for plastic and other surfaces. 

I don’t want to trade it all, but if you are looking for a small amount I can probably share. 

I can also offer guidance on furniture refinishing projects.

Sandpaper Various Grits

Great record... the one with What’s love got to do with it and Better be good to me

Sleeve and inner are in very good shape and the record is near mint 

Looking for a $5 value, maybe a consumable. Consult my iso.

Tina Turner- Private Dancer Lp

This is clumping bamboo ‘green panda’ or ‘dragon head’

Is propagated through planting a section of the root. 

Let me know if you’ve got some or have seen it at a store.

ISO Fargesia Rufa Bamboo

Nice vintage hardcover copy

Looking for something from your profile or a piece of fruit

The Adventures Of Augie March By Saul Bellow

Nick Estes- Our History is the Future

Walter Rodney- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Tine Gammeltoft- Haunting Images

E.P. Thompson- The Making of the English Working Class
-Customs in Common

Saidiya Hartman- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

Alondra Nelson- Body and Soul: the black panther party and the fight against medical discrimination 

Paul Willis- Learning to Labor: how working class kids get working class jobs

Dorceta Taylor-any titles

Deborah Blum- Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the science of affection

Jim Endersby- A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology

Karen Messing- Pain and Prejudice: What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It

Books I’m ISO

It seems to me that many of the issues that arise on bunz have to do with people wanting something for their junk.*

It strikes me as an infantile attitude for people to say, “I don’t want this item, but you should give me a lot for it.”

I don’t believe that it follows
a) that because something has a frank monetary value (eg gift cards) that the owner needs to ask for that cost in trade, or 
b) that items should necessarily be traded for other items that have a similar sunk cost

Maybe another way to think about it is this: you bought an expensive thing and spent your cash in that instance of buying. Why does it follow that that instance of buying is relevant to the future value of that item for someone else?

Yes, I understand that another person may have to spend a similar amount of money to get that item if they went to a store. 

But why are you trying to be that store? Is money available to everyone in the same quantity? Would you feel good if you found you were perpetuating the stratification that exists everywhere else? Why would you assume someone else has the same power as you do?

I’m suggesting that buns be a little more critical towards their notions of value and equity. What kind of person do you want to be, in bunz and in life?

I wouldn’t ask anyone to take emotions out of the equation, because money and work and access colour our entire lives. 

But please be conscientious about these things and work to cope effectively with grabby impulses. We all have them (and that is okay!), but please leave the baby behaviour to actual developing children.

*not based on any particular trading experience 
*brought to you by my bored sick leave brain, after reading other people’s complaints

“I Don’t Want This, But Give Me All You Got”

Hi, 

I’m quite eager to move into one of the city’s many co-operative housing buildings. 

I’ve been told by acquaintances that you have to know a current member and get vetted by them. All the waitlists are closed. 

Can anyone give me advice regarding securing a co-op suite? 

I’d especially like to hear from current housing co-op members.