Ever pick through someone's weekly trash?

[bunyip]

Wife pulled up at a house with a heap of boxes in front of the driveway, she started going through and found a little statue and went to the door to ask the owners if she could take it, turns out they were moving house and the boxes were out there waiting for pick up.
Red faced she returned to the car (empty handed).

 

[Deere Dude]

A friend was going golfing and waited with his clubs by the road. After waiting a while he needed to use the bathroom so he went back to the house for 2 minutes only to come back and his full set of clubs were gone. A guy has to be Johnny on the spot to get the good stuff.

 

[Thomas]

Lucky one 3 12" 14' plastic culverts just minor dings at each end,I done darn well at landfill tho.

 

[jaxs]

Cleaning out a government subsidized rental can give one prospective on having taxes spent on supporting people. It often look's like they went to visit and forgot to come back for their food and belongings.

 

[two_bit_score]

Cleaning out a government subsidized rental can give one prospective on having taxes spent on supporting people. It often look's like they went to visit and forgot to come back for their food and belongings.

Wonder how many of the bicycles that wind up at the curb are from donations to 'bikes for kids' organizations where 90% are discarded within a week or two of being given to the 'needy' family? We make ourselves feel better for a few minutes by donating for Brown Santa or Blue Santa or some other worthy organization but when nothing is ever done to fix the reason for the need the donations just perpetuate the problems.



TBS

 

[goeduck]

When someone else is paying the bill, why worry about anything? Unfortunate situation we find ourselves in with a hands out element of our society combined with a general consume as much as you can mentality.

 

[Garandman]

On trash day in Boston neighborhoods, insanely heavily loaded pickups start circulating the neighborhood at dawn, looking for scrap metal. And people go through recycling bins looking for cans, which bring a 5 cent credit.

If something looks too good, you have to put a 吐ree sign on it or people won稚 take it. Left an old Tecumseh motor out and it sat for several days until we put 擢ree on it.

Wonder how many of the bicycles that wind up at the curb are from donations to 'bikes for kids' organizations where 90% are discarded within a week or two of being given to the 'needy' family?

We work with three of them so I can give you the exact number. Zero.

The kids have to work on their bikes to earn them: nobody hands out free bikes that Im aware of, at least not in Boston.

When we want inexpensive Bikes we go to suburban neighborhood yard sales. Bought a brand new Raleigh mountain bike in a 礎urb that 哲eeds new tires for $25. The tires needed air. Sold it to a teacher for $25.

 

[jaxs]

As a youngster I recall adults talking about the great depression and the American New Deal and Civilian Construction Corps that allowed recovery.
As welfare picked up momentum in the sixtys old timers suggested it might be better to bring back WPA and CCC than hand out money to those unable to find work. Both sound like something we need today.

 

[bunyip]

I have observed the life cycle of the treadmill and exercise bike, a couple of weeks in the house, a few more months in the garage, a couple of weeks advertised in community newspapers, a week advertised on ebay then off to the final resting place after a few days on the curb (we call them nature strips).

 

[/pine]

Programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps would never work in today America because of the over-bloated bureaucracy etc...but if a trades and technical training program could be incorporated into a program like the CCC...and taken under the wing of capable contractors...it would be a great way to address a lot of the civil infrastructure issues...and reduce the cost of contracts by supplying a lot of the (newly) skilled labor force...