ronpaulvoter
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With the economy sliding into depression, people are searching for new ways to make ends meet.
One way is to recycle other people's trash.
Have any of you ever done any dumpster diving, either recently or way back into the past?
With the economy sliding into depression, people are searching for new ways to make ends meet.
One way is to recycle other people's trash.
Have any of you ever done any dumpster diving, either recently or way back into the past?
Years ago I was informed by a dept store employee that the store occasionally threw away broken or defective toys. She showed me the dumpster they used so I periodically checked the dumpster, Sure enough,about once a week I would find toys that could be repaired. all through the year a friend and I would collect and repair these toys and donate them to a local charity to be given to low income neighborhoods on Christmas.
In addition to the good feeling it gave us, it gave me practice later when I had to repair my childrens broken toys.
Have any of you ever done any dumpster diving, either recently or way back into the past?
With the economy sliding into depression, people are searching for new ways to make ends meet.
One way is to recycle other people's trash.
www.amazon.com/art-science-dumpster-diving
Have any of you ever done any dumpster diving, either recently or way back into the past?
A big hell ****ing no.
I guess I can understand that some people would consider recycling/reusing/repurposing - and thus helping to preserve our fragile eco-systems - the most disgusting and tacky thing an individual could do. I expect that those folks prefer to spend their valuable free time floating down pristine rivers that the rest of us help to keep clean.
I guess I can understand that some people would consider recycling/reusing/repurposing - and thus helping to preserve our fragile eco-systems - the most disgusting and tacky thing an individual could do. I expect that those folks prefer to spend their valuable free time floating down pristine rivers that the rest of us help to keep clean.
Probably want to try again.
Most of the **** I own is second hand. I have no ****ing problem with thrift shops, yard sales, or goodwill. Reusing/recycling is NOT dumpster diving.
But, I would have to be REALLY desperate, like starving desperate, like on the verge of death, to go jump in a ****ing maggot and rat filled dumpster and drag out some dirty ass ****.
You want to do that, go right ahead. I'll continue to find it utterly repulsive and disgusting.
And I don't think I ever ****ing saw you on my rivers rowing rafts full of garbage as we cleaned up the shoreline multiple times a year. And I'm guessing I'll likely not see you as I donate my weekends flying to the coast to helping clean up the oil soaked coastlines of Louisiana and Mississippi. (if they call on me, I've put myself on multiple lists to be called) Let me know if you were there though, and I'll be sure to apologize.
An incongruous attitude, it would seem, seeing as how you're an aficionado of/ participant in Burning Man.
I would've thought you'd be onboard with the whole philosophy of money-free living.
What does burning man have to do with sifting through maggot infested, rotten garbage? I don't recall doing any of that during my burn weekends. I do recall, however, graciously donating whiskey to the bar, food and water to people who needed it, and partaking in what other people were donating. I don't recall anyone sifting through any garbage cans, though. I probably would have vomited if they had
Both Burning Man and dumpster-diving (and squatting, and the whole lifestyle that goes along with it) are ostensibly about anti-consumerism.
Most people I've known who actually got food out of the garbage knew which restaurants to go to and when; at close, pizza places throw out all their "mistake" pizzas, still boxed; 7-11 throws out tied trash bags of unsold donuts and pastries very early in the morning, when new ones arrive.
These were the kinds of things they'd get out of dumpsters.
The bulk of their nutrients came from free feedings, which were ubiquitous in the area at that time to cater to the homeless youth population, and from the food bank at a place called Project Phase.
I don't recall them ever eating anything maggot-ridden.
In fact, they were food snobs; some of them were vegans. Nearly all were vegetarians.
A couple of the most pragmatic referred to themselves as "Freegans"; they'd eat anything, as long as it was free.
The bastards would only wash with Dr. Bronner's soap, too. Project Phase started giving it out for free, because if Dr. Bronner's wasn't available, they simply wouldn't wash, and they were dirty and at risk for staph and other illnesses.
I think the OP and many others were thinking of non-perishable items in the main, like the toys mentioned.Lovely. Is this supposed to convince me I should scrape my food from the bottom of a ****ing garbage can?
I think not.
I'm not so ****ing lazy. I'll work for my food, whether that means getting it from someone else and paying them for their time and labor, or if it means growing it myself. Like I said, I'd have to be on the verge of death with no other alternative to go scraping garbage cans.
I think the OP and many others were thinking of non-perishable items in the main, like the toys mentioned.
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