One of benefits for me of sending out a tenant newsletter is that I can get rid of stuff left by former tenants that I would otherwise have to have hauled away. Now here is something you don’t see everyday in Berkeley – a bear-proof food locker, and a brand-new one too. A former tenant left it in her bicycle shed. It is well made and expensive. The tags and labels are on still on it. The price tag on the handle says that it sold for $329. Now I am sure that there is someone in Berkeley who needs a bear-proof food locker, but I don’t know who that someone might be. If you need or just want a bear-proof food locker, let me know. I only have one. To be honest, I cannot guarantee that this food locker really is bear-proof. I have not tested it. If you would like to test it, be my guest, but its BYOB (Bring Your Own Bear.) I cannot supply a test bear.
I can’t figure out why the tenant who left this bear-proof food locker bought it in the first place. She didn’t have a car and never went camping. I think this food locker may be like the proverbial fruitcake that people just keep passing along to somebody else. Perhaps somebody gave this bear-proof food locker to my tenant as a gift. Since she had no use for it, she gave it to me, and now I am trying to give it to somebody else. It’s one of those things that nobody has any use for but that is too expensive to just throw away.
In last month’s newsletter, I offered a bear-proof food locker in my list of Freebies. I was amazed at the number of people who said that they needed or at least had use for a bear-proof food locker. I’ve lived in Berkeley for 40 years, and I’ve never heard of anyone seeing a bear anywhere in the bay area. Nevertheless, 9 people asked for the bear-proof food locker. Five of them came to my house within a day of my sending out the newsletter, each hoping to be the first one to get it. Unfortunately, I only had one bear-proof food locker. I think that it is highly unlikely that I will get another one, but you never know.