tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057927270137968293.post5636205460240846420..comments2023-05-03T09:24:55.687-04:00Comments on The Vegan Good Life: How Do You Define Trash?Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06488301404397970300noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057927270137968293.post-30196742541252321462010-04-22T09:37:24.344-04:002010-04-22T09:37:24.344-04:00This really seems to be a crisis. I talked to some...This really seems to be a crisis. I talked to someone whose boyfriend got a huge flat screen tv someone discarded in the trash. <br /><br />It's really a shame because college students are often saddled with debt and many have to pay for new items when it could have been passed on for free. Literally money thrown in the trash. <br /><br />Maybe it's partly that the younger generation has never really known major 'lack' as others have (I think of Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation). <br /><br />Yard sales are great! Good luck with the sale and the move.Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06488301404397970300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057927270137968293.post-64735416222675322892010-04-22T09:02:18.506-04:002010-04-22T09:02:18.506-04:00Thanks Catherine, for another 'trashy' pos...Thanks Catherine, for another 'trashy' post! ; ) <br />Seriously, I'll be moving at the end of June, and it's amazing the amount of clutter that accumulates in a basement or attic...ugh. I plan to do a yard sale, and donate whatever 'gently used junk' remains. I just refuse to throw stuff away. <br />I've lived in apartment complexes throughout college, and have always been completely SHOCKED by what ends up beside the dumpster. I haven't dumpster dived, but I think college-town apartment complexes would be a good place to do it because of all of the waste! Yikes, what does this say about young people and their disposable attitudes?!MaddyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02276031161382617190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057927270137968293.post-33088088788561867212010-04-21T06:59:56.298-04:002010-04-21T06:59:56.298-04:00Thanks very much for the comment and encouragement...Thanks very much for the comment and encouragement, Emily. I don't do freecycle myself. Instead, I donate mostly to charitable thrift stores. <br /><br />Oprah Winfrey did an environmental show last year and Lisa Ling was wandering around a landfill in disbelief at all of the things that were there that people could have been using.Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06488301404397970300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057927270137968293.post-40469132529087443712010-04-20T23:08:47.969-04:002010-04-20T23:08:47.969-04:00This is really impressive. Just wanted to stop by ...This is really impressive. Just wanted to stop by to say 'go you'! I used to subscribe to my local Freecycle listserve, but the email volume drove me crazy. The message is such a great one though -- keeping perfectly usable stuff out of landfills.Emily on the Southern Prairiehttp://littlehousesouthernprairie.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057927270137968293.post-7841762365795135972010-04-20T19:31:12.094-04:002010-04-20T19:31:12.094-04:00Thanks Elaine.
Oh, the rate at which people upgr...Thanks Elaine. <br /><br />Oh, the rate at which people upgrade gadgets, TVs, etc., it's always the next shiny new object. I have a 10 year old TV set that works fine. <br /><br />I love second-hand. While the economic benefits are great, I shop almost entirely thrift mostly for environmental reasons. I just don't want to contribute to the production of even more stuff.<br /><br />Good luck with the garage!Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06488301404397970300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057927270137968293.post-39572798652287586762010-04-20T13:00:04.704-04:002010-04-20T13:00:04.704-04:00THought-provoking as always. This is a wasteful s...THought-provoking as always. This is a wasteful society to put it mildly. Always something new to replace what we already have.<br /><br />I am a big fan both of shopping at second hand stores and of giving away my crap (cough -- I mean wonderful stuff) to second hand stores. If somebody else can use it, I'm so happy to give it away!<br /><br />That said, our garage is full of stuff that I think we need to get rid of, but my packrat husband insists might be used again.<br /><br />Some day.Elainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02883685141057444220noreply@blogger.com