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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm on 3 listservs and every single day there is someone posting a "give me" message. "Looking for a bicycle, wagon, carseat, couch, bed, coat, vacuum, you name it" if someone has one to give. Kinda sick of it. Offer to pay people for their hard earned material goods or go to a thrift shop. [/quote]

I hate this too!! Particularly since I live in an affluent neighborhood. It's like, if I had one to give away I would donate it to kids in need. 
And it's always the same people!  And they are looking for expensive stuff usually too. [/quote]

This is how I feel too, especially because I often personally know of the (serial) people with their hand out and I know enough about them to know they could damn well afford a $50 booster seat for the brand new Subaru outback they just purhased, sitting on our block in Chevy Chase DC.  conversely, same households could afford to give away the high chair / umbrella/ "well used glider with stains" to Martha's Table. But no -- there they are on the listserv month after month, trying to get that last $25 for it.

Which is how much they earn in 7 minutes of work as an economist.

And before someone says it, it's because they're grabby, not "being green."   At least the people I have in mind. [/quote]

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