My best week for compost was the week a neighbor moved out

A guy down the street left for a new job and told me I could take anything from his garden and kitchen. I ended up with 40 pounds of overripe tomatoes, a broken wooden pallet, and three bags of coffee grounds from his freezer. That pallet became a three-bin system, and those tomatoes broke down into black gold in about 6 weeks with the coffee grounds mixed in. Has anyone else scored unexpected composting material from a neighbor's move?

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the_stella10d ago

Used to think moving scraps were trash. This totally shifted my view.

alice8910d ago

Whoa, never thought about it that way. But here's something I bet nobody's pointed out yet - moving scraps actually reveal a lot about how people prioritize their lives. The stuff people throw away instead of packing says more about them than what they keep. Like I've seen people ditch perfectly good kitchen stuff but haul around old magazines they never read. It's like their real values come out when they have to decide what fits in a truck. Kinda makes you think about what you'd toss if you had to move tomorrow.

oscar74310d ago

Wait that old magazines thing got me. I literally CANNOT believe people would drag around magazines they never touch but toss out a working blender or pots they could use tomorrow. That's actually crazy to me. Like I get we all have junk but that's some serious denial about what matters. Makes me wonder how much of my own stuff is just taking up space because I'm afraid to admit I don't need it. You're right though, the scraps tell the REAL story. Nobody fakes what they ditch in a moving box.