Regardless, garbage picking is unpredictable and it wasn’t that long ago where I felt like I was only meeting nice folks on the curb. So, for my sake and the sake of trash pickers everywhere I’d appreciate if you shared in the comments some reasons why you think scavengers are a-ok in your books! I don’t think so, but it’d be nice to hear otherwise. And who knows, maybe they’re right? While I’m now making a decent living from other people’s trash, perhaps I’m “lowering myself” somehow by doing so? Are the vague privacy concerns of people I don’t know and don’t care about more valuable than the economic, environmental, and historical benefits of saving their discards? There’s definitely a segment of society that thinks of scavengers as sub-human, immoral, or simply undesirable, and there’s no real way to convince them otherwise in that moment. Even if they did show up, they’d probably just tell me to leave rather than arrest me (they second idiot, who I little patience for, asked “do you want to get arrested?” and seemed to take himself seriously).Īnyways, in the moment these people don’t bother me too much, but I’d be lying if a string of cases like this (there have been other, relatively minor incidents as well) didn’t affect my mindset and confidence somewhat. But at midday? Sure, call the cops, I’m sure they have nothing better to do than to ensure that your alarm clocks, old books and dusty dishes get sent to the dump. At night it’s a different story, because I can understand how someone might feel paranoid and the police are more suspicious as well. Oh yeah, there was that older guy in a bathrobe asking if he “ to call the police” for the crime of saving quality junk.Īfter all my years of garbage picking I’m finding that threat to call the police less threatening. A guy just this past Friday – after saying, if somewhat belligerently that I could look through the bags as long as I tied them up right (I always do) – later asked if I had any “self-respect,” decided I had none, and threatened to call the police. One lady screamed at me for saving the vintage alarm clocks & other cool things she was throwing out (she might have set an all time decibel record actually). I can complain though about the number of buttheads I’ve met lately, particularly in Westmount. I still have lots of pictures to share here from my very productive spring… The three weeks before last were pretty mediocre, but I can’t complain about the year overall. You never know with garbage, but from my experience moving day is mostly a fun phenomenon and not a boon to business. I enjoyed cruising around looking at the massive piles of trash, but I don’t generally find anything too exciting because a) there’s lots of competition and b) most of the people moving don’t have enough money to toss out great stuff willy nilly. Last week was a good one for garbage, though moving day had little to do with it. As you can tell I have a tendency to overthink, and sometimes that leads to inaction.įor now, the plan is to keep the blog more or less the same, but if you have any blog-related ideas or suggestions please feel free to share them in the comment! Sometimes I wonder if I should move the blog in a new direction & focus more on certain aspects of trash picking, post more, post less, keep things more or less the same, or quit altogether (I mostly feel that last one when I burn out). I guess that’s what they call writer’s block. There wasn’t any particular reason for that, I just didn’t feel inspired to write for a while. I know, I haven’t posted in about a month.
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