There's a beautiful chair I'd trash picked from the curb near my old home a few years ago. This chair graced my sewing room in the former home, and then it graced the Command Center in my new home, and then it broke. Maybe Goldilocks visited, or maybe we were a bit rough in tossing it around when we vacuumed around it, or or maybe it's just really, really old and it finally decided to split, so to speak.
I waited patiently for a new chair to appear, and eventually a "free to take" notice about a glider appeared on our college's electronic bulletin board, so I brought home a replacement chair. Then I put the beautiful, broken chair out at the curb.
We've already put our trash cans out at the curb twice this year. I'm conflicted about how to count the chair. If I pulled it out of the trash in the first place, does it "count" as trash when I put it back there?
My primary answer is that you are doing your best, and that's the goal, so it doesn't matter.
ReplyDeleteMy secondary answer is that it either counts as trash for the other person, with a detour in your house, or it doesn't count as trash for them because you took it, and now it counts as trash for you (unless someone else takes it).
My final, "Toy Story"-ish answer (where inanimate objects have feelings) is that this chair was put out to pasture in your house where it was well-loved until it was ready to move on into the afterlife.
I love these three answers! I think I'm going to mentally mark this down somewhere in answer #2: that I put out at the curb N cans of trash, plus a previously trash-picked chair.
DeleteAh, it's good to have an answer!
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