Gifts: the best things people just said, "would you take this?"

Backstory - long term friend calls last night. "Graeme has a 50 ft roll of chicken wire - would you take it?" I'm like ... "OK, I'll find a use for it..."
Personally, I've given up on chicken wire for most things. The stuff around here is thinner gauge than it used to be, rusts through to nothing in contact with the ground due to our weather and generally slightly acid soil, and bunnies, racoon and rats can chew right through it. However, a friend needs to build a run for day use, and I figured so long as the lower part is decent wire, 50 ft would go a long way to building the up-high parts.

So Graeme shows up at our door. The wire's in a box that looks way too big to be 50' of chicken wire. It's hardware cloth - Graeme, "Oh, is this what is called Hardware cloth?" Me, "yes, and the stuff's awesome - bunnies can't chew through it!" Inside I'm doing the happy dance, as Hubby and # 2 Son show up to admire this wonderful gift, and another part of my brain is saying, "It doesn't look galvanized..."

Yep, Graeme's common-law-mother-in-law, bought 50 ft of 3' wide stainless 1/2" hardware cloth to build a bird cage of some sort. Changed her mind and it had been sitting in their front hall ever since. Graeme finally thought that "maybe we'd have a use for it". OH my - the things I can think of!!! I've already told Hubby that if I can decide on a style of solar dehydrator that might actually work in our climate (sun shortage and high humidity - here's looking at the Wheaton Lab's experiment of a rocket stove assisted one), the hardware cloth would make great shelves for things like apple chips.

So have you ever received an unexpected gift out of the blue that you'd never have imagined??? Post them here!

Many years ago I bought a 300 Winchester Magnum sight unseen from a coworker. I can’t remember the exact price, but it was really cheap.   Anyway, they dropped it off. I opened the box ( yes, it was unused).   It was a 300 Weatherby Magnum.

In round numbers for today?

Weatherby = $2000

Winchester = $500

Yes, I told her the Weatherby was more valuable.  She stuck with the original price.

This may not seem like a big deal though to me it was.

A hairdryer headed for the trash.

Dear hubby fixed the cord and this is the last hairdryer I will ever own.

Now best things people just said is, "would you take this?

My new to me car which is a 2015 Subaru Outback.  While it was not free, just sitting in it makes me few like a millionaire as I drive to the mailbox.  All the bells and whistles I will never use.  Dear hubby has fun with those gadgets when we go to town.