re: People throwing away perfectly good stuff

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I don't get why people dispose an item but then are too pigheaded to allow someone else to salvage it. If the salvager is willing to put in the time to clean it up then let them do it so that our landfills aren't clogged up with items their owners were too stubborn to allow to be re-purposed.

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i guess on the surface watching some dudes pull up to your front yard and take your belongings would be upsetting to most dealing with the loss of everything they had. You have a good point but i'm not going to side against those who have lost everything being upset about it.

With the amount of stuff they pulled out of my house to throw away, a few pots and pans will make zero difference. It was a race against the mold and my sorting what was good and what was bad slowed it all down. My wife and I spent a couple days cleaning and salvaging what we thought we could. My wife and I made the decision that throwing that stuff in the pile was far quicker and less costly than taking longer to muck out the house and have mold grow. We went through our house and drew a black line on every wall. We said if it is below this line it gets trashed, if it is above that line, it gets salvaged on the porch. My house was gutted in basically a day with no one having to evaluate each item.

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Saw a sign in Denham the other day. Said something along the lines of "My tragedy is not your treasure. please don't take" This was spray painted on a door in a trash pile on the side of Floriday Blvd.this is just ridiculous. They aren't using that shite ever again. if someone can manage to make a few bucks off of my trash more power to them. Id rather that than it just rotting away somewhere

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Again....they likely were doing that for FEMA inspections. People were taking mattresses and stuff like that and FEMA wasn't able to document it(although don't know why someone wants a flooded mattress). Who knows how long that sign was there.