Many years ago, I lived across the alley from an apartment complex that rented mostly to college students. At the end of spring semester, the kids would throw away more furniture and kitchen gear than you could believe. I still have a few things from there, in fact I used my aluminum dumpster colander just the other night. There was a guy in the neighborhood who used to scavenge stuff from dumpsters and have a little yard sale every month or so.
I wouldn’t eat food from a dumpster unless I was starving, though. Maybe from a dented but still sealed package, but not anything perishable.
“Many years ago,...”
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I would imagine if blocks had monthly or semi-annual ‘neighborhood swaps,’ there would be much less pieces of furniture or other household items going to landfills.
It’s such a shame.
Down the street from where I reside at this time someone has placed out on the front curb beautiful chairs.... my head whipped around as we drove by.... LOL
By the time we got back from grocery shopping they were gone.
So glad someone used them!!!
Simply because someone ‘got tired’ of a perfectly good piece of furniture is no reason for it to be destroyed. Sigh.