My mother owns a small office building and has a tenant. The tenant is always throwing away pretty neat stuff like vases, decorative jars, candles, etc. Guessing a lot of the stuff are things her clients give her as gifts. Since mom puts her own trash out on the curb, she often salvages a good deal of stuff from the trashcans, which she then drops by the thrift store.
When I was a child we lived in an area of houses with a community dumpster. One lady would throw out anything she no longer wanted. When my mom asked her why she didn't donate it, she told my mom that she had grown up poor and no one had ever done anything to help her; she was not about to help someone else. It isn't only people who've never struggled who are wasteful.
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