Freegan Awesome

The other day on Oprah she had some people on there that were Freegans. Have you heard of Freegans? I hadn't until the show. In case you're like me and didn't know, I'll tell you. They're a group of people that are anti-consumerists. They feel like our country is driven to over consume and that we're very wasteful.

Freegans are against materialism and are more about living a life of only taking what they need. They also have a strong sense of generosity and community.

I'm pretty much down with the whole freegan thing except for one thing. Freegans dumpster dive for food. I know the food they salvage is actually still packaged and untainted but still...they jump into dumpsters. I couldn't do it.




It's made me start to think about all of the things we have that we don't need. We have so much stuff that is great but we don't use. Why not go through it all and give to people who will use it? So I'm doing that. I've already gone through a lot of our stuff and bagged it up. We made a big trip to Goodwill on Friday to give stuff away and we already have some boxes that are filling up again.

When I see something that someone I care about would like then I'm tagging it for them. So if you start getting random things from me then you know why.