Paris is a place packed to the gills with antiques, broccante and bric-a-brac. The vide-greniers held throughout the warmer months are rich seams for collectors of preloved objets. Another way to find objects of desire is to walk the streets on the evening the rubbish is collected, when people leave anything on the pavement, from old slippers to antique mirrors, for collection by the armies of green clad bin men. I did recently have an embarrassing moment when I tried to walk off with a lamp which someone had left on the street, but who was actually moving house not throwing away, however, if you get there first and you have no shame, the pickings can be rich.
I have a small apartment and an eclectic eye, so on this page you will find the things I am selling in order to make room for more stuff. I agree it's a little COD and I really need to calm down on the collecting, but as yet there is no known cure. If you are interested drop me a line newfriendstable@gmail.com .
There are many, many homeless people on the streets of Paris. Poor, drunk, deranged and sad, they throng the benches and live amongst pitiful dirt and depravation. The Emmaus Trust and the Red Cross does a sturdy job of helping people out and you can find out more about their work and the sorry statistics by clicking on these links. If I offer for sale an item here ( other peoples' crap) which I have rescued from the street it will be labelled as such and any money made on these transactions will be donated to Emmaus. It seems a rightful thing for the objects of the street to be recycled to help the people of the street. Every one knows: where there's muck there's brass and what goes around comes around.