Posted on 09/20/2011 4:53:01 PM PDT by EBH
God Bless You. You are a SURVIVOR and I admire that in a Freeper. :)
“No conservative, in my opinion, should look upon wastefulness and laziness and make excuses for it.”
BUMP! :)
The only thing I would worry about it how long the meat had been in the dumpster or how long it sat waiting unrefrigerated before being taken out.
But it was a prime rib and fillet Mignon?
As an Army Ranger during the nam conflict .. I Learned how to survive!
Every survival skill that I had learned served me well while I was going through that experience.
I can GUARANTEE you that Without a home or transportation, living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the time that .. You would Not be working a ‘normal’ job or three ‘normal’ jobs at the time!
You would do Anything to get yourself back into the ‘normal’ flow, get transportation first, (which I then slept in) and after that your prospects for Real work would present itself!
Nobody wanted someone who they didn’t think could be relied on to report for work, If they didn’t have reliable transportation.
This is South Florida that I’m talking about and it’s a Rattlesnake for the down and out!
And .. Unless your pride gets in the way .. You Would eat some ‘nicely boxed’ and still warm pizza from a pizza hut dumpster .. when you got hungry enough!
I didn’t say that the pizza were just slices, thrown away on a trash pile.
They were always boxed and warm! 8)
Thank You Diana in Wisconsin
I am a better person for it!
Life can throw even the most prosperous a curve and if you want to survive .. You will do Anything, that isn’t illegal to pull through!
I now know that if I am ever in a similar situation .. It is not the end of the world! 8)
I used to make quite a bit of spending money dumpster diving- I'd find perfectly good items, and take them to one of the local consignment auction houses to sell. Paid cash weekly. Lotsa fun.
I used to make quite a bit of spending money dumpster diving- I'd find perfectly good items, and take them to one of the local consignment auction houses to sell. Paid cash weekly. Lotsa fun.
I was ‘upper’ middle class and I was in a position that I had to do it.
It saved my life!
While out working, I regularly run into a couple who dives for scrap. They tell me that they average around a grand a week doing this- which is really good money around these parts (more than I make!), especially if you aren’t paying taxes on it.
Baraq promised change.
Sadly it wasn’t what most of his voters expected.
“A bend in the road is not the END of the road.” :)
Of course we are. :)
Half my furniture I found out on the curb on garbage day.
The next year he got lawn mowers, most were just out of gas or needed a carburetor cleaning.
AGREED! I guess I was raised better than some because unless I was LITERALLY starving to death I wouldn’t ever touch a piece of food(i.e. GARBAGE) FROM A DUMPSTER!!! I would rather die.
but during those difficult times... did you ever consider yourself middle class?
unlikely.
odds are, you felt yourself sliding and was fighting to rectify as best you could.
which would be my original statement.
truth is now considered ‘snark’? I don’t think so
Good for you. Too many people go into debt to buy furniture when it literally grows on the curb. : )
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