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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is one lady in ours that’s hustles to grab baby formula. Any brand, unopened or opened, doesn’t matter. [/quote]

She probably selling it somewhere. [/quote]

Or owns a daycare center or volunteers with  kids in a church or a baby pantry or other help center ???

Why do we always go to the negative?  It must be sad to first assume the worst in others. Why not just give the “benefit of the doubt”![/quote]

In our group, most tell you that what they are doing if they take lots of stuff.  We have people  who collect for animal and women's shelters all the time, but they tell you and not hoarding.

Many have been caught selling and kicked out.

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"Caught selling?" How???![/quote]

This is part of the structural nonsense of Buy Nothing groups. If the only rule was "neighbors helping neighbors" there'd be plenty of room for reselling, because that's a form of neighbors helping neighbors. I pick up the crap you don't want, and sell it, using the money to buy something I need. But the groups have eleventy stupid rules about what you can post, when you can post, how to word your post... some of them even try to monitor what people do with the items received from group posts.

It leads to a bunch of nosy parkers making stupid accusations about the final disposition of stuff they didn't want anyway, and is more "neighbors policing neighbors' stuff and behavior" than being actually helpful[/quote]

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