Thread: Freegans ond others Free Dating, Singles and Personals

The more I read about it, the more disgusting and stupid it sounds. I cans see having an acre or two and growing your own food, preserving and so on. Raising chickens, rabbits, a goat, etc., and being self reliant. Making your own clothes, baking your own bread. All of that sounds nice. Bartering and trading with friends for goods and services. But scrounging and scavaging stuff, including rummaging through dumpsters, disgusting.

I find AMAZING bargains at garage sales. Sometimes you find the best deals in wealthy neighborhoods and suburbs, because people there buy new & expensive items on a regular basis and get rid of the "old" items (which sometimes aren't that old!). Like a couple months ago I went to a garage sale in an affluent area and got a perfectly good big screen TV for $50! The owner got a newer and bigger TV so he was getting rid of the...

There are some grocers and restaurants that donate leftover food to shelters, soup kitchens and food banks (I know of some here in Indiana). But obviously it takes up valuable employee time and money to do so. The local government-sponsored soup kitchen gets a lot of its food from one supermarket chain that donates its food, rather than put it in the trash. It also accepts food from people, so long as it's not out of date, like cans and...

There are some grocers and restaurants that donate leftover food to shelters, soup kitchens and food banks (I know of some here in Indiana). But obviously it takes up valuable employee time and money to do so. In Arizona, they can't even do that anymore because of Health Department laws and liability issues. No one can guarantee the food's safety, so instead, it gets thrown away. I see your point about the trouble it takes to...

My Freegan friends are more concerned with recycling than in being materialist. Yes they do have a fantastic house furnished with all the luxuries. However, they donate just as much as they keep, which I think is commendable. Grocery stores hire people to remove expired merchandise from their shelves. My Freegan friends do this also & donate the food to a homeless shelter. So it is just not about what they can get for themselves. These...

^^^^^^^Agreed. I'm not interested in shiny, new things however I'm not prepared to eat out of bins/dumpsters........... But Woolies throw out the BEST stuff!? You just have to fight the rats for it! lol

Yeah, I can respect "living off the land". You know, growing your own food, solar power, using a bike instead of a car, whatever. When you resort to dumpster-diving though, you are just an extremist outlier. A group of your kind would be referred to as a cult.

I might be one of those people. I don't eat out of the dumpster, but I buy out of necessity. I don't need a bunch of extra junk. I would rather put the extra money in my pocket rather than a retailer's any day. Call me penny pincher, frugal, whatever.

Most people's homes are filled with crap...I cant see the NEED for some people to constantly be at Big Lots, Walmart, or the Dollar store buying more crap. Christmas commercials are all ready runnig...

Sounds like it might be part of the Voluntary Simplicity "movement" ~~ you can even get Simple Living Coaching if you're of a mind to, lol! Most of my Quaker meetings have had a group that was working on making the concept a living thing. When they actually make it, it's beautiful ~~ physically and spiritually. . . . Namasté