Bargains from the Dumpster

There is an interesting article at MSNBC on Americans salvaging food, electronics, furniture, clothes, art, etc. from dumpsters. Sorry, I just can't bring myself to do that--climbing inside of dumpsters. This is very dangerous also, as I can remember when I was a kid, two kids in the neighborhood I lived in died from being burned to death in dumpsters.

Times are not that desperate and I pray that I am never faced with this decision to make, but there is a 51 year old woman interviewed in the article named Rebecca who gets 99% of her food from the dumpster and here is how they describe her background: "owns a small duplex and has a job running an art program for a health care organization. She’s also an artist in her own right whose accomplishments include a piece that hangs in the Seattle Art Museum."

“It’s so easy to eat for free,” she says. “The only things I buy are butter and milk.”

The Yuck factor is just too high for me. I will live off of beans and rice forever, preparing it one thousand different ways, before I diversify my menu with food from the garbage. That's just me. I will bet anything ole Becky has a cat, and it gets fresh Meow Mix on the regular. No dumpster scraps for Garfield. READ MORE...