So for those of you who've been reading my blog you've probably noticed I'm all about saving money but also keeping as much of your hard earned taxed money away from the Corporations as possible. Politics aside, I went to explore my local freegan group and left amazed. It was great to meet like minded, caring people (one freegan had a whole shopping cart to give to his local shelter) and if you had been there you would have left that night just flabbergasted by the amount of Corporate waste going on during a recession. Environmental consequences aside, these are common stores you shop at and instead of reducing prices just a little for customers or plain out giving it away to the less fortunate, it would rather just toss it away to add on to our landfills.
We only made 3 stops, a group of 15 people and everyone left with a ton of stuff and we even had to leave a bunch behind.
At Duane Reade, I picked up 9 bags of various breads that had not even reached its sell by date. Others picked up boxed Rocher Chocolates, Yogurt, Packaged Salads and Sandwiches, Nuts, Yogurt, Flour, Batteries, Makeup, etc.
D'Agostino's was crazy, I picked up all the above but others picked up a lot more. There was bagged salads, fruits, veggies, tofu, juice, canned soup, even several bouquets of Flowers. Passerby's picked up stuff and there was still a ton we left in common sight because no one had room to take more home!
And at one Bagel Shop, there was literally bags of still warm pastries and bagels. I can't believe I ever paid money for this stuff!!!
O and lets not forget someone had on the curb a super gorgeous expensive dark wood book case that was a super modern piece and it was literally going to get thrown out! Whats even more sad is that something that beautiful it was also in perfect new condition, not even dusty, was going to be destroyed.
Overall, the night was an amazing eye opener I rescued over $60 worth of food and to think if I hadn't everything would be sitting up in a landfill right now.
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