Please don’t bring home furniture that you find on the street! At the end of the school year, there is always a lot of furniture left on street corners in college towns. Bringing home furniture that you find on the street is dangerous! You don’t know where this stuff came from or what might be hiding inside. There are a lot of nasty things inside furniture left on the street, including bedbugs, fleas, lice, ticks, and mold. I understand that most college students have very little money to spend on home furnishings but bringing home furniture that you find on the street is not a money saver. You are endangering your health and the health of all your roommates by bringing home furniture like that.

Also, college students are often offered free sofas and mattresses from friends and relatives that they have been storing in a basement or a garage. Don’t take them. Those things should go to the dump as well.