Desperate for leftovers from Costco???

[ShortJohnSilver]

On Saturday (today is Monday as I post this) my wife and I had a small party for my elderly mother.

We bought everything from Costco including a veggie tray and a large platter of "turkey rollers" - see http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200608/u1=issues?pg=60#pg60 upper left corner if you don't know what they are.

We had a bunch left over, brought it home, put it in the fridge... but there was a lot left.

So we had a bit of this for dinner tonight; but the thing is, they are pretty bland, I ate one or two and that was it.

My wife says "if you want, I can FreeCycle it and people will come pick it up."

"Really? People would go for that?"

"You don't know how desperate some of the people on FreeCycle are."

She posted it, and within 5 minutes, had THREE replies; and has had many more since; including a grandma who wanted it for her grandkids since they don't have much food.

So there is someone coming to get it at 8AM tomorrow morning.

I am rather shocked... we have a bunch of food in the house, enough to last I think, a couple weeks without even trying to economize.

[Ponce]

I know someone that goes to a grocery store, three or four times a week, to pick up from 15 to 20 boxes of vegetable in perpect good conditions because they are supposed to get rid of them after X ammount of days.....some of it he gives away and other goes to his cow and chickens..........I asked him "For how long do you think that this will last?".........sooner or later he will be getting less and less every week.

[milehi]

I know someone that goes to a grocery store, three or four times a week, to pick up from 15 to 20 boxes of vegetable in perpect good conditions because they are supposed to get rid of them after X ammount of days.....some of it he gives away and other goes to his cow and chickens..........I asked him "For how long do you think that this will last?".........sooner or later he will be getting less and less every week.


My local market has a rack where lightly wilted fruits and vegetables that are just "too ripe" are stacked and sold for next to nothing. I've known the schedule for a couple years now and I'm getting stuff for pennies. How about a six pack of red bell peppers for 50 cents? A bag full of broccoli for a quarter? My Excaliber dehydrater is always running.

[General of Darkness]

That is very very sad. Amerikwans are starving, yet Israel gets billions upon billions, and the jew bankers get bail outs.

One the other side of the coin, and not to be dick, but MAYBE, just MAYBE, people that can't afford to have kids, shouldn't. But that would be politically incorrect for people to take responsibility for their own actions.

We live in a mad mad world. I do love this version as much as the Tears For Fears version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

[ShortJohnSilver]

Wow ... one of the people who emailed (#6 in line should the original and 4 backups fail to get it) is a not-very-close relative!

This is 6+ people emailing, out of a total population of maybe 20K people and maybe less than 500 on the list?

Update: after the wife emailed to tell her she was not first, she emailed back her phone number just in case the first person was a no-show!

[Book]

Wow.

Thanks for this eyeopening thread ShortJohnSilver. Desperate is an accurate title. Congress is now talking about cutting back food stamps to appease the Republicans...

:o

[ShortJohnSilver]

Update: the person said she would arrive 8am - was here almost on the dot.

Total number of replies was 14.

Total number of people on the list is about 1700... so 1% of the list was jumping at the chance to get some leftovers.