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 Items in the three-week boxes may be taken and used for your own projects. '''However:'''
-* Always bear in mind that items have been looked at by someone following the process above. You are unlikely to find something with no intrinsic value.
+* Always bear in mind that items have been looked at by someone following the process above. You are unlikely to find something with no intrinsic value, and not everything is broken or even beyond repair.
-* Take care with items in the first box. These items may have been put in the three-week system on the day you're looking
+* Take care with items in the first box. These items may have been put in the three-week system on the day you're looking. The owner may not have noticed them missing.
 * Similarly, be cautious with items in the second box on a Wednesday (or when the first box is empty). These items may only have been in the system for a day.
 * The best time to scavenge for items is before the meeting on a Tuesday. The third box is about to be thrown out, and items in the second box will have been in the system for at least a week.
-* For fairness, try not to irreversibly alter something you've scavenged until the full three week period has expired.
+* For fairness, try not to irreversibly alter or disassemble something you've scavenged until the full three week period has expired.
 Do not repurpose an item with a Notice-of-Disposal sticker before it has expired.