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Environmental Baddies 1d
it genuinely breaks my heart seeing people throw out perfectly good furniture and appliances when moving. it’s not that hard to donate i promise 😭😭😭😭😭
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Anonymous 1d

the convenience culture has truly doomed us all. it’s not convenient to donate and provide for the less fortunate, let alone to avoid horrible companies that perpetuate the system that created their poverty conditions…

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Anonymous 1d

I will say … not really devils advocate but providing an alternative viewpoint. When I was moving states I had large furniture I couldn’t bring with me. I had 3 weeks to pack and move. I and my partner have small cars. We had large furniture we wanted to donate but everywhere that offered pick up wanted to charge for it. And it was SO expensive. We ended up leaving the larger stuff for the people taking over our lease because we couldn’t sell it (tried fb marketplace), couldn’t transport it

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Anonymous 12h

Seriously, the amount of perfectly good things thrown out at the end of the year during college pissed me off. Furnished my apartment for free from the college dumpster though!

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Ourselves to donation centers, or pay to hire anyone to move it for us. (Beyond broke and moving for a new job and barely had enough to pay for a moving truck and first months rent at the new place). I agree it’s saddening to see people getting rid of “perfectly good” stuff but you also don’t know the circumstance. And it actually is pretty hard to donate. Lots of places won’t accept certain things, don’t have the room for it, etc. and a lot of what you donate ends up in the trash anyways.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

i understand some people quite literally do not have the ability to do something with it, but in my college town there’s a local thrift store that will come pick it up for free, and there’s a college consignment shop that will do it too. and goodwill bins will sit outside dorms and it’ll just go in the dumpsters. it’s sickening and genuinely there needs to be more accessibility for people to get rid of stuff that they can’t take, or leave behind for the next person

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 12h

THAT PART

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8h

No matter the topic more accessibility almost always helps.

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