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Where do I get free newspaper to line my animal cages?

>> No.2414576

>>2414575
homeless encampments

>> No.2414579

>>2414576
I don't want hepatitis.

>> No.2414586

>>2414575
just take the "no junk mail" sign off your mailbox

>> No.2414589

>>2414586
I want newspaper not that slick magazine print.

>> No.2414621

>>2414589
subscribe to a bunch of community newsletters. churches, political groups, charities, that kind of shit. lots of them still love wasting dead trees.

>> No.2414628

>>2414575
get some straws

>> No.2414630

Buy a wood lathe...endless shavings and you can make cool stuff!

>> No.2414667

>>2414575
Ask at your local shop just before they close, saves them dumping the unsold ones

>> No.2414687

>>2414575
where I used to live, newspapers were free in the shops, funded by crappy ads.

>> No.2414717

>>2414667
shops return newspapers they are pulped for credit refund. some small local papers you might get but no big ones.

>> No.2414734

>>2414579
it's not that hard to dodge their needles they're usually nodding off

>> No.2414863

>>2414575
hiliary clinton's book can be purchased by the case for only a few follars

>> No.2414902

>>2414575
Go to paper box. Insert quarter. Take all papers? Profit?

>> No.2414904

>>2414902
I think so those were taken out around here a long time ago.

>> No.2415091

Hotels, anon. They all carry jew rags like usa today or a local paper which are all also jew rags.

Every week I throw out at least as much as one bundle from your pic.

>> No.2415101

>>2414902
I was going to say this exact thing. Had a buddy's dad that would go buy a paper and then while it was open he would take all the other papers out and set them on top of the machine so everyone after him would get a paper for free. Fuck you newspaper sheckleburg...

>> No.2415191

I used to live by a place that printed the paper. You could just go there and they'd give you as much old shit as you want for free.

>> No.2415838

>>2414630
>where can i get this thing for free?
>buy this completly unrelated piece of equipment for $300

>> No.2415906

>>2414621
i thought sending actual paper newsletters is only a German thing.

>> No.2415911

>>2414575
train stations

>> No.2415912
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2415912

>>2415911

>> No.2415922

Just do a friendly neighbourhood walk during recycling day. Bring a cart!

>> No.2415953

Just steal your neighbors.

>> No.2415959

>>2415953
But put a $5er under a rock on their driveway.

>> No.2416033

>>2414575
Go to the newspaper company. The paper comes on big rolls, and they can't let the rolls run all the way empty or they have to re-thread the whole machine. They'll give you rolls with a few hundred newspapers' worth of paper left on them for a couple bucks each.

>> No.2416454

>>2416033
>They'll give you rolls
Yeah. Just need your own forklift.

>> No.2417399

>>2416454
Couldn't you just bring a chainsaw or battery powered saw and cut them into manageable chunks?

Wouldn't they already have a forklift and probably drop it in your truck if you ask nicely?

>> No.2417422

>>2414575

Those days are long gone. If you have a recycling drop off you might be able to score occasionally but the reality is hardly anyone buys newspapers anymore. Primarily, they're no longer relevant and the next time you go to a store that still bothers to carry them, take a look at the price. It's fucking ludicrous.

I had to get a Sunday paper one day for one of the kids art project, cost me $6 for the local trash paper. They had the nyt as well and that was over $10 iirc.

You.might have some free local community papers. Also, you can check your library, most carry news papers for the past week or so. I would imagine they just throw away the older ones.

>> No.2417423

>>2417399
Are you seeing how this is more trouble than the usual procedure of stacking them on the pile for the mill to pick up at the end of the week.when they drop off the new ones?
Probably ask a lot fewer questions about where the spindle has gone, too.

>> No.2417429

>>2415959
>I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!

>> No.2417434

>>2414575
>line my animal cages
Suck it up and buy a 1000ft roll of 24" 40# butcher paper for like $65. You won't need to layer it or worry about the ink. And the roll will last a while.

>> No.2417797

>>2414902
in SF people would shit in those.

>> No.2418381

>>2414717
when I worked in a shop we only had to return the bar codes of the unsold papers for credit, can't imagine things are much different nowdays.

>> No.2418387

>>2416454
Two men can carry one of those "leftover" rolls.
When I was a kid my dad brought one home as sort of endless sketch pad. Pretty cool. I have one in my garage as packing paper, or masking paper for when I spray paint stuff.

>>2417423
The one I have, the spindle is just a beefy cardboard tube. It's probably mostly glue by weight, about 1/2" thick. The guy at the newspaper building didn't intimate that he wanted it back.