Home waste

People leave a lot of perfectly good stuff at the curb sometimes, when moving or decluttering their homes.

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Examples

• Furniture, both new & old
• Appliances
• Clothes
• Food (...)( especially nonperishables like spices & tea )

Reasons

• Having to empty an apartment before moving out
• Having to empty a house before selling it
  • Sometimes this is even codified into contracts with a real estate agent
  • Other times it's just a social norm: It's considered "bad etiquette" to leave anything in the home when selling.
• Not having time i~ to take everything when moving out
  ~ to bring things to charities or thrift stores
• Not having space i~ either in the moving truck, or in the new dwelling
  ~ or in the current dwelling, in the case of decluttering
• Not having ability i~ to move heavy things
  ~ to hire movers
  ~ etc.

Solutions

• Quick fixes
  • Furniture banks
  • Stuff huts
• Deep / cultural shifts needed
  • Normalize the idea of hand-me-downs from one ↻homeowner↺↻tenant↺ to the next.
  • Campaign against contracts~ with real estate brokers, in the case of homeownership
    ~ with landlords, in the case of apartment rental that force people to empty their ↻homes before selling↺↻apartments before moving out↺.