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JMaN 281 points ago +283 / -2

I helped a family friend load truckloads of free bricks and he did his whole driveway. Guy was a multimillionaire...

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ProgramNerd 180 points ago +181 / -1

How you think he got there?

You may have just stumbled upon a great truth.

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Barbs 131 points ago +131 / -0

The first time you go to actually buy bricks you’ll completely understand why free bricks are a hot commodity and rarely last long.

Fuckers should be gold-infused with how much they cost, lol.

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DeadOverRed 88 points ago +88 / -0

Wait, you buy the ones without gold?

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MakingArrowsOrange 23 points ago +23 / -0

Bricks of gold-pressed latinum.

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xdrunkagainx 10 points ago +10 / -0

You're paying for the shipping

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Quietam_Unum 7 points ago +7 / -0

There is a huge market in bricks from abandoned buildings in Detroit. Bang down factory wall / pile bricks on pallet / sell bricks for crack. Why pay someone to demolish derelicts, just unleash the crackheads. ;)

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Liberty4All 24 points ago +24 / -0

And did your friend get your labor free, too?

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doug2 13 points ago +13 / -0

This was funny.

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nds19 12 points ago +12 / -0

If only brickbot could fix this..

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inspir3dgenius 5 points ago +5 / -0

He is seated at the right leg of Kek

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Thiswillbeintheexam 11 points ago +11 / -0

I worked for a council. There was an urban legend (probably not true) about a guy who religiously took home the leftover bricks from every project. 10 bricks here, 10 bricks there... Supposedly he built himself a second house over the course of many years, sold his first one and pocketed several hundred thousand in capital gains.

It takes on average 8000 bricks to build a house. So in theory, if he was pinching 10 bricks every workday, and there are 261 workdays in a year. It would've taken him 3 and a half years. It's doable, but the issue is that many projects took several days to a week to finish and many of the bricks were not the same size and style.

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BillGateCanSuckIt 29 points ago +29 / -0

He build it one brick at a time and it never cost him a dime.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=18cW_yHo3PY

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80960KA 4 points ago +4 / -0

Getting half a pallet of leftover bricks from a big project every other year will really drive up your average. I'm sure someone has indeed built a house with leftover materials from building sites at some point in recent history.

I'm sure material also gets straight up frauded - say an extra half pallet of bricks gets purchased on a project budget and then the "leftovers" are just hauled away by the (dirty) contractor at the end.

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JMaN 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yes.