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      I never understood what they were testing with that test either. Like yeah if you strap a body to a chair loaded with explosives it blows up.

      Also a pig would have worked just as well and would have been cheaper.

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    Its even worse, selling your body for someone else’s profit. I was just recently in a weird knickknack store that had taxidermy peacocks, butterflies, gems, minerals, etc… But one of the ‘etc’ was a human skeleton that the person donated their body to science in early 1900’s only to end up being for sale for the low price of $9,000 after the medical organization they donated their body to was either done with it, or the organization dissolved, or who knows what…

    Pretty shitty that its legal to sell people’s fucking remains for a profit…

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    Do you know how many couches I’ve had rejected by the Good Will? There’s a sign out front that says “No Drop Offs Except During Business Hours. Donations Must Be Approved.”

    I’m going in one of those green donation bins with the tumble doors that are in Walgreens parking lots.

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      Do you know how many couches I’ve had rejected by the Good Will?

      how many couches are you buying?!

      There’s a sign out front that says “No Drop Offs Except During Business Hours. Donations Must Be Approved.”

      sadly, people donate literal garbage: underwear, socks, unwashed and stained shirts, broken or incomplete items… people don’t want to throw things out because its “almost complete” when “almost” means useless, so they donate it rather than throwing it out

      same thing as optimistic recycling. it costs more to sort and dispose of than it does to sell the items actually worth anything

      i wouldn’t be surprised if people literally tried to donate “slightly soiled” diapers, or perishable goods that are “only slightly” past their used by date because “beggars can’t be choosers”

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        Ok, so, to be fair, it was during a time in my life where I was moving a lot and buying couches on craigslist for $75, which I thought was a lot of money for a couch at the time. And the level of wear that I received the couch in was in my mind, the baseline of couch quality.

        I simply couldn’t imagine that someone wouldn’t appreciate these couches.

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          I’ve had that problem in the past. I was giving away my daughter’s clothes that were too small, and with offense in her voice, I was told “other families should be able to use this.”

          …yes, I originally got this from a trashbag, but I thought they were decent. I even discarded the stuff my daughter finally wore out and freshly washed everything I brought in! I guess my standards were yet too low, despite being one of the “poors” myself at the time.

          I’m also on team “very cheap second hand” couch. Prices on brand new are just too damn high.