Wednesday, March 11, 2009
This video is sad in several ways. It's about cleaning out foreclosed homes. One sadness is the toys. The other sadness is that perfectly good things go to the dump. The guy says that they've tried coordinating with charities and it doesn't work.
Yeah, charity would be good, but ANYTHING would be better than just dumping. Maybe they could open the house for a few hours, and anyone who shows up can take anything they want that's not attached.
When I lived in St. Louis and they tore down the Pierre LaClede (sp?) building, they opened it to scavangers first. People got marble panels, carved banisters, all the good stuff was recycled. I ended up with four seven-foot bookcases.
Why did these people leave photos? What is their state of mind? Why, oh why, the dump? So much waste.
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2 comments:
The waste is absolutely disgraceful.
It is so difficult to imagine that there is not some way to keep that stuff out of the landfill.
These people left photos behind because they feel like there's no past. No future. Only now and it's as bleak as you think.
There was a story in the NY Times yesterday about middle class people moving into hotel rooms - we're not talking Holiday Inn here - to live, five, six, seven to a room.
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