The daily spammage topic

[Cao Cao]

What's dumpster diving? The pic of the pile of food almost made me believe u pillaged a bakery how is it free food?

[Saturn]

I went dumpster diving. Been eating free and amazingly tasty food for a week. :-P

XD

Well I'll just guess you've got some money for food left. ^^

Also, I generally just rarely carry cash

Hm, okay. I (almost) always do, and I think that counts for most people. Since, well... you need cash for everything as soon as you leave the house. Sometimes even IN the house (like using the laundry-washing machine... need to feed it with coins xD). I assume that you've organized your everyday-life in a way that you usually don't need to carry cash around. Which looks nearly impossible to me, so uhm... kudos I guess? ^^

The pic of the pile of food

Huh... what pic? Where? o.o

[maloki]

What's dumpster diving? The pic of the pile of food almost made me believe u pillaged a bakery how is it free food?

Basically we go to a store, find their dumpster, loot it after hours for food that's still edible. There's a huge food waste, and distribution problem in our society. My friend identifies as a Freegan, which basically means that she will live off food that others discard to leave as small a footprint on the environment as she possibly can.

Dumpster diving on wikipedia redirects here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_picking

I went dumpster diving. Been eating free and amazingly tasty food for a week. :-P

XD

Well I'll just guess you've got some money for food left. ^^

Nop, free food.... I had 50 SEK (about the same as DKK) left when Loa left last week. Have to last me until I get my student loan.

The pic of the pile of food

Huh... what pic? Where? o.o

Probably this pile of food: http://instagram.com/p/rp8jbCl673/
or this one: http://instagram.com/p/rp1eIsl6wM

For anyone's information, it's in no way eating food that's too old to eat, it's saving food that's still edible. (We had to throw some of the stuff in the picture away)
At the same time it teaches you to make due with what you got, like "oh I have these things today, what can I cook". Oh and eating the same thing for almost a week, I made a chili from the leftovers of the meat we cured (see other pictures on same account as previously linked), some of the sausages and a pack of bacon.

If anyone is the least bit curious, here's a website to find a dumpster near you: http://fallingfruit.org/

We really got lucky with the bread, basically one of the guys as this particular store will make a nice little bag with all the leftover bread at the end of the day (little bag, I mean one of the big black trash bags) and hope that someone takes it from the dumpster so it doesn't get wasted.

[maloki]

I had marginal sleep, but am more focused than I've been all day, awesome. Time to get writing!
Read the research report, page after page. Earlier today I couldn't read a paragraph without losing myself.

[Cao Cao]

Also, I generally just rarely carry cash

Hm, okay. I (almost) always do, and I think that counts for most people. Since, well... you need cash for everything as soon as you leave the house. Sometimes even IN the house (like using the laundry-washing machine... need to feed it with coins xD). I assume that you've organized your everyday-life in a way that you usually don't need to carry cash around. Which looks nearly impossible to me, so uhm... kudos

Here in the Netherlands u can almost always pay with bank card so for us it's normal to carry little amounts of cash with us

[Diao Chan]

Hm.. Don't think you will be that lucky dumpster diving in the Netherlands. Here, that kind of food is given away to the "foodbank" for the needy.


also.. a washing machine in your house you have to put coins in?.. Im glad i bought a regular one which just takes soap and dirty clothes 

[maloki]

Hm.. Don't think you will be that lucky dumpster diving in the Netherlands. Here, that kind of food is given away to the "foodbank" for the needy.

That's a way better system tbh. But here we have stupid regulations that in theory prohibits that.

[Cao Cao]

At the same time it teaches you to make due with what you got, like "oh I have these things today, what can I cook".

Plus it also makes you realize you should buy things that you know you'll be able to / have time for to eat. Getting so much bread is maybe a bit too much..? because you know it'll last for only a couple of days and you end up throwing a lot away.

Garbage picking is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential waste to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but that may prove useful to the garbage picker. Often described as "bin hokin'" in some of the less favourable parts of West Belfast, garbage picking may take place in dumpsters or in landfills. When in dumpsters, the practice is called dumpster diving in American English and skipping in British English.[1][2] Dumpster diving is viewed as an effective urban foraging technique.[3] Dumpster divers will forage dumpsters for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition.

searching for nearby food dumpsters showed me 4 results in Wageningen.

Every Wednesday from 9:00 till 13:00 and every Saturday from 9:00 till 17:00 there is a streetmarket around the "Grote Kerk". There are no bins here, but it works if you ask the vendors at the end of the day.

Paul & Martie's: On Stationsstraat, on the left side of the public library. If you go here in the afternoon around 2-3, you can ask them if you can have the leftovers and then you can pick them up around 5-6. Location on map is approximate.

[maloki]

At the same time it teaches you to make due with what you got, like "oh I have these things today, what can I cook".

Plus it also makes you realize you should buy things that you know you'll be able to / have time for to eat. Getting so much bread is maybe a bit too much..? because you know it'll last for only a couple of days and you end up throwing a lot away.

It's wasn't for me alone, and it was already thrown away.
The girl, the freegan, that was with me live with 3 other people I threw a lot more bread on them than I took myself. And I gave two of my other friend some as well. All in all we shared about 80 pieces between 7 people. Thank God for freezers.

While dumpstering if you come over a huge bag of bread like this you don't cherry pick from it until you get home.  and a lot of divers have friends they poke if they come I've too much food.

I shared meals with my friends for a few days as well.

[Saturn]

Nop, free food.... I had 50 SEK (about the same as DKK) left when Loa left last week. Have to last me until I get my student loan.

Uff. I wouldn't even be able to go to work with that, since a single train ticket costs more. xD


@dumpster diving: Yeah, I guessed that you might mean that (seen reports about it in german TV a few times... which is kinda funny too, since I almost never watch TV myself), although I wasn't sure if you're just joking or not. I'd actually do that too if it would be possible. Not because I can't afford to buy food, but because I really really don't like wasting food (you might have noticed how clean my plates always looked after I finished eating) (also there might be stuff in there that I'd never actually buy cause I think it's way too expensive haha). But here, such dumpsters are always locked away inside the buildings... no way to access (or even see) them unless you work there, and even if you do, you'd probably not be allowed to take something of it with you.

Here in the Netherlands u can almost always pay with bank card so for us it's normal to carry little amounts of cash with us

Well I can pay almost everywhere with bank card too. Well, not public toilets, but I refuse to pay for those anyway xD (unless there's no other possibility). But you're never sure if you don't actually need to pay with cash somewhere. Also, what if the card-reading device is broken for whatever reason? And on top of that, paying with the bankcard takes longer than paying with cash... AND spending money is so much easier if you don't actually give money away physically... meaning you might end up spending way more money than you would otherwise (I remember seeing reports that this is one of the reasons why many young people in Germany (dunno about Switzerland) already have quite big debts). I actually take advantage of this fact in that I pay train tickets with my bankcard, or more expensive stuff that I really need to buy. Because otherwise, I would probably die a little inside every time (I do NOT like spending money, especially not lots of it)... this way I can just uhm, overlook the fact that I'm actually spending money.

On a sidenote, if you go to any supermarket for example... I'd guess around 80-90% of all the people pay with cash. I wouldn't want to imagine how that would look like if most would pay with bank card... they'd maybe even have to hire more staff to sit at the check-out points (wow... is this really the right english term for it?) just because more time is lost with each customer.

also.. a washing machine in your house you have to put coins in?.. Im glad i bought a regular one which just takes soap and dirty clothes 

Well yeah, there's a device at the wall where you need to put coins inside to actually have electricity for the machine. It's in the basement for the use of everyone in the house. My parents actually have their own in their apartment (another english term I don't agree with... anyway), but here we have one for everyone (need a special permission if you want to buy one for yourself... but I wouldn't know where to put it anyway). A friend of mine has it a bit more convenient... there they get cards they can load with cash, thus they pay only what's needed to wash. Here with the coins, there's a problem... because if for whatever reasons (the machine acting funny for example) the washing process takes longer, it will need more money. Now if you didn't throw in enough then, it will just cut off the power supply and when you want to go get your laundry, you have to throw in money again and then it continues washing... so ideally, you throw in a bit more than needed and hope it's gonna be enough (because I wouldn't like to be finished and seeing that there's a lot of money left and I basically paid half the laundry for the next person or so xD).

An advantage of having your own machine is, that you can actually wash during times where electricity is cheaper to save money. Here, it costs the same no matter when I wash. That might have technical reasons, but also practical ones... so that people don't start fighting about washing-times. ^^

[Diao Chan]

  Big wall of text is big! 

[maloki]

This is the thread after all!

[Saturn]

Big wall of text is big! 

Haha yeah; I just couldn't help it.

I had to reply to multiple people after all!

Well okay... nobody forced me to do so. But it's kinda what you do if you're having a conversation, isn't it. xD ^^

[Diao Chan]

Twas overwhelming  but don't let me stop u xD

[Cao Cao]

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