Wastefull people

[JamieLynn]

Well this is something that just irks me, I don't know if it even bothers anyone else. People around here throw away everything, a lot of it is still perfectly good (how I ended up with 4-10gal 1-20gal, and 3 bird cages)
Just 2 days ago one of the neibors was taking 3 vacumes to the dumpster, I asked if I could have them and they said "sure, but thier just junk"
So I took them home thinking, maby if i needed any spare parts for the one I had at least that was worth it. I dropped one on the way up the stairs...oops, the other 2 made it up intact. I plugged them in and guess what, they both worked just fine, they needed cleaned out, and one needed a new belt, but that was it. One was the exact same model as the one I already had, so I had the spare belt to fit it, the other was mauled by puppies, who ate the hose in a matter of seconds.
Any way now I have one totaly perfect vac, that someone was just gonna toss in the garbage, because they were too lazy to see all it needed was a belt. And my old vac, that I got when the resturant I worked at closed 4years ago, (and they were gonna throw that one away too)
I recycle everything! I just hope with this down economy, and all the people who can not afford much anymore, people can fix more things rather than just throw them away.

Of course if they really want to get rid of their stuff so bad, give it away to someone who needs it.

sorry for running on, I just needed to get that off my chest.

[Anakiyas dad]

If I have something of use and works I put it on the Free section on Craigs List and someone always swoops it up within a day or two with that price tag= Free.

[JamieLynn]

If I have something of use and works I put it on the Free section on Craigs List and someone always swoops it up within a day or two with that price tag= Free.

I'm glad to see someone cares

[Earl]

Wait...you watch what your neighbors toss in the garbage?

[wildcar]

I know how it feels, I have this neighbor who has 11! count them 11 lights outside his house on all night and day long. Some times he remembers to turn the porch lights off. It kills me because I have replaced almost all of the lights in my house with CFL bulbs to save energy and money on bills and this guy just leaves his on all day and night. You would think he would at least want to save money on electric. He could even put all his lights on motion sensors.

[JamieLynn]

well my apt is no smoking so I sit outside a lot. Not much else to do 'round here.

Stare into the empty pasture land all around this little street.

[Earl]

well my apt is no smoking so I sit outside a lot. Not much else to do 'round here.

Stare into the empty pasture land all around this little street.

Ahhh I see.

I usually just give my old stuff away. Clothes go to the VFW, house appliances go to homeless shelters, old movies and what not go to hospitals. Things like that. There are a few organizations around town that will come to your house and pick stuff up.

[Bruce Whitehead]

I tend to do CList for my free stuff, and I watch it as well.

I used to drive stuff around town (not to take it for car rides but to drop it off), but now that I do not have a vehicle I cannot deliver it.

The rare occasion is stuff like work boots and what not. Those I will take to the teen shelter for vocational placements.

I got a incubator bar fridge for 5.0$ from the Eco-Centre in Montreal. I had put an ad online that I was looking for one and a guy took the task on would email whenever he saw one being tossed out. Scary part was that he saw at least 2 a week!

Just in the trash, not being recycled, etc.

One thing I love about Montreal though, especially in my neighbourhood, is the DIE-HARD dumpster divers. Dumpster diving is not shameful here it is a municipal sport. And man, do you have to be fast!

You can see something on the street and if you don't grab it within a few minutes it gets carted off.

Same with when you're moving. You have to label stuff as NOT GARBAGE, or by the time you do the flight of stairs and come back down it will all be gone.

When I moved into my new place I was looking out the window and saw a large white bookcase in the alley. I though right on, a unit for hides and what nots for the snake room. By the time I walked down the stairs two hippies had grabbed it and were wandering off with it. *DOH*

First one to get their hands on it wins.

When I had reptiles in tanks, I never paid for a singe one, same with all my rat cages. Got them all for free. When I no longer need them, same deal. I will recycle them to someone that can use them.

Bruce

[JamieLynn]

Bruce, can we move up there with you. around here it is not "dumpster diving" it’s called "recycling"
Some towns even have fines if you get caught (in Gillette, WY it’s a $500 fine if you are caught, and THEY throw out TONS of neat stuff)
In SD though, it is polite to ask when you see that 20 gal aquarium sitting out on the curb if the people that live there are ok with you taking said item.
The town I grew up in, in NJ my cousins, and older sisters would take me out on trash day “treasure hunting”
Never thought it was bad, until I lived in WY for a year.

[wolfy-hound]

I try to "freecycle". Check out to see if it's in your area, yahoo groups.