Why not donate it?

I so agree with you. There was a couple of times I got to work in the morning and the whole trash bin was full of movies that people donated to us but she just tossed them out cause we didn't have room for them. I took some home of course.

One thing I don't understand and that is why when you raided the bin where all the items were thrown didn't you also take some and donate them yourself. Since you took some home it didn't hurt anyone but will benefit your family. But, the discussion was about donating to those who are needy and not trashing good and reusable items. Then you turned around and didn't follow your own desire and thoughts to help others. What you could have done was box up a bunch of things and brought them to a Children's Hospital, Nursing Home, Home Living Facility or the neighborhood Library.

I don't have a car and take the bus to work so it's hard for me to carry a lot of stuff since I have other things like my purse,and lunch bag.

I got a better idea. Call Good Will or the Salvation ARmy yourself and tell them that the faculty is moving and there is a lot of things that they are throwing away that they could use. Then they will send a truck to pick up the stuff/

hi suspenseful and missy here in S outhern California I had called both Salvation arm and Good Will back a few years when we were nmoving as we had thrown out some stuff that they could have used. the woman answering the p hone was actu ally insulting as she told me"We do not send trucks out any more to pick up trash." I wanted to reach throught the phone and smack here, It was not trash but good furniture we did not have any room for in the new apartment we were moving to. I had never had them refuse me before but she claimed they no longer picked up stuff.

That's a wonderful idea, I think I might just do that .

Some people just don't care that others worked hard for the things that they throw away

or reduced the price on it instead. I once bought an antique oak desk chair for six dollars and sold if for one hundred dollars at an antique shop as the lady told me that model was a genuine antique and worth more

Wow, they should have given it to another charity

Some people did take some of the stuff and they are going to donate the books and tapes to libraries. I think it actually comes from the big bosses to get rid of the stuff, but why not let people take what they like first

I agree, so many homeless people could use that stuff ans shelters also

ajk and missy oh my G what the middleclass homeless that just lost their jobs and their homnes need is not used stuff as they need jobb and homes first. why do people think like that oh give it to the homel;ess, have you ever been in that situation? no they need to be helped to jobs and a break into getting into apartments. they have no place to store any thing and wrong they cannot just live in the shelters another falsehood. you can only stay in any shelter for one week, thats why I am here at G old crest retirement center as I had social security and got SSI as I am an elderly physically handicapped diabetic so they take most of my two checks bu t I get to stay here with a decent room , and three meals a day, not floating on the street where people can sneer at you. two weeks of the most humiliating experience I had ever had, and I was not the only middle class person suddenly evicted just one of a hundred others. when companies decided to cut back because of the economy or to outsource and do away with jobs here they never cared what happened to people out of work with a job market so low there were hundreds for each job.homeless people do not need stuff, they need full time jobs and help getting into apartments they can afford. stuff is useless when you have no home.

A few people took some of the tapes and books, I don't have a car or I would take all kinds of stuff

The new place is nothing like our nice homy place we had . It's gonna be more like a hospital setting and they don't want all the old stuff, they getting everything brand new. Some of the furniture we have right now isn't even that old yet. Those are supposed to be raffled of to the employees...we'll see

When I was like 16 I worked at a mall in the glass and porcelain department, everything that had a little nick or scratch in it they through out. I know they probably couldn't sell it but why not give it to us to take instead of throwing it away. I used to check the dumpsters behind the store all the time and took stuff that they threw out.

I agree 100%, a couple years ago she threw about 30 of them in the trash bin cause the holes were to big in the blankets and the patients could get caught in them, when i seen them the next morning I was really mad. I grabbed them and everybody took some.

Talking about food waste.....sometimes the family thinks there loved one needs to eat even though the patient don't want to eat anymore cause they sick and dying. All that time they spend making the food and then it gets thrown out. If it hasn't been touched sometimes we just eat it.

That's just so wrong, at least they could sell it for half price.

At least they could ask us if we wanted any of the things they threw away

It's really sad, and lots of the things we have been donated to us.

Funny cause our computer chair came from my work last year when they were getting new ones they once again threw out the old ones so I grabbed it

I don't get it either since we are a non profit hospice we rely at lot on donations our-self, that how we got the new facility. Somebody donated a lot of money to us.

I guess so but at least you try to help