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Originally Posted by shawni
Now, everyone gives me clothes and I give things to others that arent my color or don't fit. It was like after the "taboo" of being frugal and non wasteful was out in the open...it spread like wildfire.
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Yup. At first my enjoyment of used items, thrift store or garage sale or hand-me-down, was looked at as slightly odd. Now that folks see that I am honest in my enjoyment and that I dont hoard, and that I in turn enjoy passing on items to others, it feels as if the sharing of free items has come into the open.
I've gotten boxes of cereal on my desk with a note-"Bought it, don't like it." I'm certainly not ashamed. I can buy cereal, but why should that box be tossed? I myself call it "rescuing" an item. For some folks, seeing it as environmentally slound and waste reducing helps them not see it as stingy.