My housemate & I have found this a useful activity on our walks just in advance of the city’s “heavy trash” pickup day (every other month). We have acquired a reading chair, a small bookshelf (it needed just replacement pegs for the shelf, which were made using an $0.87 dowel from our local Home Depot), a small cabinet, a small coffee table, a child sized folding table I use to germinate seeds, and a set of mini-blinds that I cut into hundreds of small plant tags for the native plants I grow and share.

I'm in a field office, but we have an informal FreeCycle going in the breakroom at Arctic Parkway.