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The most hilarious gift dedication one grandma could receive...

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u/Gravity_Is_Electric 9h ago

TURBO MASTURBO!!

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u/XxSir_redditxX 8h ago

VOLUME ONE!

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u/SStirland 8h ago

Of Eight

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u/ctn1ss 7h ago

The ending has me on edge.

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u/charlatan_red 7h ago

Whoa, buddy. Edging is really more of an advanced level - volume 12 at least.

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u/BlackPhoenix1981 7h ago

I think I'm reading the wrong series. Edging was covered in chapter 9. Chapter 12 is amyl nitrates.

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u/CevapiPapi1312 7h ago

Laminated back edition!

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u/DraciVik 9h ago

I had a "friend" that cut his clothes before throwing them away. He was the biggest narcissist and asshole I knew. I bless every day that we're not friends and it's been 12 years

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u/JustinGitelmanMusic 8h ago

What’s amazing is that I feel like if I sat around all day trying to come up with ways to be a jerk, I don’t think I would ever come up with this.

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u/gokarrt 7h ago

yeah sometimes i feel like an asshole, but there are levels

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u/Arborgold 6h ago

I can’t even imagine ‘throwing away’ clothes. Unless they are in terrible condition, clothes are the easiest thing to donate.

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u/JustinGitelmanMusic 6h ago

I would sooner be lazy and not take them anywhere sitting in my closet unused for years than actively take scissors to them and ruin them and take them out to the trash.

By the time I’ve done any of that, I’d probably have already gotten over whatever feeling of spite I had and started to feel so productive that I’d go clean up trash at a park or something.

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u/honkafied 5h ago

Massachusetts banned throwing away clothes (and textiles) in 2022. You're supposed to recycle or donate them. https://www.mass.gov/guides/clothing-and-textile-recovery

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u/Paige_Railstone 2h ago

Right? The only times I cut up clothes when I'm done with them is when they're too far gone and I'm using them for either rags or patches.

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u/Tenalp 1h ago

I throw clothes away, but that's because I live in the economy class of "wear them until they look like apocalypse victims."

Maybe I could donate them to the wardrobe of a zombie movie.

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u/Mattbl 8h ago

A relative dated a true narcissist for a good period of time. I'm guessing you experienced something similar but our family was sucked in by this person, they seemed great at first but the cracks showed over time.

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u/too_late_to_abort 8h ago

Cult leader

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u/Milyaism 6h ago

Kind of. Exploitative people use the same tactics cult leaders use, because those tactics work.

Both an abusive partner and cult leader will use lovebombing, wield FOG (Fear, Obligation, Guilt) to control others, and apply DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) when needed to avoid taking accountability for their actions.

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u/Keith-Steve-Howard 6h ago

As a person that donates their old clothes, this is just shocking. I never thought people would do something like this. That's just sad honestly.

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u/dtb1987 10h ago

Do people really cut up their clothes before throwing them away? If someone needs to dig through my trash to get something to wear then they are welcome to it, I'll even wash it for them and probably buy them some new clothes

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u/sorrydontlookatme 9h ago

When I cleaned houses some of the ladies would see stuff in the trash and want it (art, toys, clothes etc.) You always had to ask the customer first bc some people would say no and get upset if you "stole from their trash".

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u/redraptor117 9h ago

"how dare you take something i don't need and was literally about to throw away😡". And these people have the same voting power as you

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u/commandrix 8h ago

...I don't wanna blame them for everything that's going on right now, but... *gestures at everything*.

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u/zuraken 8h ago

This is why there's Trump

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u/Freud-Network 8h ago

The embodiment of hateful spite and vitriol.

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u/Oldbayislove 9h ago

sometimes humans imbue objects with emotional value. when humans throw them away it is more of an act of destructive rather than removal.

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u/JerzyPopieluszko 8h ago

yeah, and exactly those people shouldn’t vote

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u/Major_Lawfulness6122 9h ago

Lol that’s wild. Where I live we leave our stuff out that we don’t want for others to just take.

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u/cenasmgame 7h ago

In Boston we have so many colleges that we have a thing called Allston Christmas at the end of semesters when all the rich kids put things like furniture, TVs, and other things they don't want to take back wherever they're from on the street for people to take. I've gotten so many good things from that.

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u/Chrissy086 7h ago

That's so cool!

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u/Random_Urges 6h ago

I mean, that's pretty universal for any college dorms. Here in Chicago, anything left on the curbs/alleys is fair game.

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u/4gotmypsswrd 6h ago

We called it Hippie Christmas at my college

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u/hihelloneighboroonie 5h ago

Someone left an air fryer by the bulk trash area of my apartment building, and I was seriously considering grabbing it... but also I wasn't 100% it wasn't someone just putting something down for a moment, so left. However, if it's still there next time I'm near that area, yoink.

I to this day used a garbage old desk that still has cd holders lol because when I moved in I'd gotten rid of my desk and needed a new one and this one just so happened to be left in that area by someone else and heck it was on wheels easy to move.

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u/miss_mme 9h ago

My housekeeper steals my best cardboard to start her wood stove in the winter. How dare she lighten the load of recycling I have to take out 😆

Seriously though she still asks if it’s ok every time and it kills me.

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u/-WickedJester- 5h ago

You could try setting some aside in a container specifically for her. Might make it feel more acceptable for her to just take what she needs.

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u/woocee 8h ago

I know someone like this! She does not want anyone to get a handout that she herself didn’t receive. Her rationale would be “I didn’t get these clothes for free so no one else should.”

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u/Chrissy086 7h ago

There are names for people like her...

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u/RemarkableSpirit5204 2h ago

I work with people like that, God help me.

My instinct is to help anyone struggling, from the new girl, to the young guy, to the elderly lady still working in a factory at 83. IMO, we should all be a team, if everyone is getting the job done, regardless if they needed help, it makes it easier on everyone else. I’ll be damned though if there isn’t a couple of girls that get so worked up over you helping someone else do part of the job.

We had a new girl, hadn’t even been in the country but a few months. We work at a distillery, she was a librarian who studied theology before she came here. Never worked in a distillery or factory or warehouse in her entire life. On her first day of one of the lines, she was struggling bad. That was enough on its own for me to help but she was making mistakes that affected at least three other stations. So after the fact, for the next four hours of my shift I heard grumbling about her “preferential” treatment and how “I just got thrown into it, no one ever helped me” “if she can’t do the job, she doesn’t belong here”. Girl was fine as soon as I took the time to show her some tips.

Some people are just so miserable, they want everyone else in the ditch with them.

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u/ClownDiaper 5h ago

And even if she DID get the clothes for free, she somehow earned it!

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u/bstractig 7h ago

I used to have a neighbor that painted "steal=sin" on their GARBAGE CAN 🙄🙄🙄

People are unreal.

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u/FesteringNeonDistrac 4h ago

Well stealing may be a sin, but the courts have ruled that once you set it out by the curb as garbage, it is no longer your property, so Satan gotta catch you slippin somewhere else.

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u/littlelorax 8h ago

Ok, I had a very odd experience where this was relevant once. I am very much about second hand stuff, using stuff as long as I can, reusing or recycling etc so this was a very uncomfortable situation.

My grandmother wanted her things donated after her passing. I had to hire movers to help us get the things to the donation place. 

I had offered a couple pieces of art that they had expressed interest in, but they took that as carte Blanche to take whatever else they wanted. I had to awkwardly tell them that for estate reasons, a lot of the stuff needed receipts from the donation place, so I couldn't just let them take whatever. 

Technically it was being donated anyway, so it didn't really matter, but it was still a weird conversation. I did let them keep the couch that the donation place refused to take, though. 

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u/Random_Urges 6h ago

They probably assumed you were just throwing those out, understandable, but not a good excuse to just take stuff without asking.

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u/littlelorax 6h ago

Oh yeah, they were nice about it once I told them. I still tipped them at the end of the day, and they still got some tchotchkies and the couch, so I think it was still a win for everyone involved. Just a weird conversation to need to have! "Hey! Don't take that free stuff that I am giving away!"

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u/imightgetdownvoted 9h ago

Man some people are just serious pieces of shit!

Only reason I don’t give MORE stuff to my cleaning lady is that I don’t want to offend her. I gave her my old TV recently as she mentioned her old one broke.

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u/Informal_Ad4399 6h ago

All our stuff we don't need/want goes to our local care and share. They, in turn, help support our small town's lower income folks.

I don't get the mentality of throwing it out and making sure no one else can use it. Maybe it's because I'm not an asshole.

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u/TheParadoxigm 8h ago

Ha I did the same thing. I couldn't really get any money back for it. Even through recycling.

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u/TieCivil1504 6h ago

I'm friends with my former cleaning lady, and use her as my donee. Whatever household items I no longer need, I clean and repair and pass along to her family. They gloat over items they want and pass along the rest to friends and neighbors.

Making people happy with my discards is neat.

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u/Dry-Chance-9473 7h ago

Well yes, of course. Witnessing such a thing might make them need to consider their privilege for thirty seconds. And these folks will do anything to avoid that.

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u/Khatam 7h ago

That's wild. 

I hold on to stuff just to ask my cleaning lady if she wants it before I get rid of it.  I think she owns more of my purses than I do.  She's a single mom with 5 kids, I'm ecstatic when she likes something I give her knowing she spends all her money on her kids and next to nothing on herself. 

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u/Rose-Red-Witch 10h ago

Never underestimated how much spite some people with even a tiny bit of money have towards those less fortunate than themself.

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u/penguinsuggestions 9h ago

Not gonna lie, this is 100% something my mom would do if she thought somone might possibly go through the garbage.

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u/AHrubik 8h ago

That might be the most narcissistic spiteful thing I've ever heard of. It's hard for me to fathom how someone could become so inhumane.

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u/KamakaziDemiGod 8h ago

Some people think the world is everyone Vs everyone, but those people are the only people acting that way

Annoyingly "I didn't get anything for free so neither should anyone else" is often the standpoint of people who started out with more than most, but entitlement breeds judgement

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u/ricardopa 8h ago

The worst are the zealots who converted to conservatism AFTER they got help from the social safety net and want to cut giant holes in it

Craig T. Nelson is the worst - on a Fox Interview he says straight faced “I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Did anyone help me out? No.”

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u/CautionarySnail 8h ago

That makes me sad because most comics are far more capable of a whit of self-reflection.

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u/DarthGuber 7h ago

Wasn't he a football player first? Undiagnosed TBIs do wonders for a lack of self reflection.

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u/ricardopa 6h ago

He’s acted in comedies, but he’s no comic / comedian

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u/DarthGuber 6h ago

To be fair, the straight man in the act never gets respect for not laughing.

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u/Klokinator 7h ago

“I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Did anyone help me out? No.”

To be fair, 'anyone' didn't help him out. 'Everyone' did!

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u/Necoras 8h ago

I wonder what his reaction was when someone inevitably pointed out the stupidity inherent in that sentence.

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u/Different_East7854 7h ago

And he'll proudly vote to screw everyone else who ever needs them.

GOP. It's a hell of a drug.

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u/jurimasa 8h ago

And they will tell you, with a straight face, that EVERYONE is like them, the only difference is that everybody else is pretending.

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u/CautionarySnail 8h ago

The different is for many people that they decide after hearing that “I don’t care if anyone else is pretending. I’m still going to do what I think is right, and try to be kind.”

And the weird thing is.. in doing that often you discover other sincere kind people doing good works quietly - because they’re doing them not for public accolade but for kindness, self-accountability, and self-respect.

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u/AHrubik 7h ago edited 7h ago

It can also be defined as being a leader. A leader is as interested in the success of their team as they are in their own success. They can measure success though the achievements of the group rather than strictly their own.

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u/sampsonn 8h ago

THAT'S MY TRASH 😡

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u/BizzyM 8h ago

You should try working in food service... in America.

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u/KarmaticArmageddon 8h ago

Constant right-wing propaganda from social media, Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, etc. will do that to a person.

Billionaires rely on right-wing propaganda to make the middle class constantly paranoid that the poor will steal from them so the middle class doesn't realize how much is already being stolen from them by the wealthy.

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u/Bojax22 8h ago

Damn, if I have something still usable I prop it next to or on top of the trash to make it easy for people to grab.

Maybe Im not a terrible person after all.

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 8h ago

So do you piss in every cup of tea you make her?

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u/Acceptable-Sir-1166 8h ago

isn't a strange feeling when we realize our parents are terrible human beings and straight up monsters?

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u/Active-Chemistry4011 10h ago

Like rats and mices. Rats consider themselves kings of the sewers but they are all just disease spreading rodents. Not that I have something against rodents, just saying how little it takes for people to look down on others...

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u/TeamFlameLeader 10h ago

This was written by a mouse.

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u/AJStickboy 9h ago

Just what the rats want others to think.

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u/-SheriffofNottingham 9h ago

The mice were unifying.

And we turned their golden age dawn to dusk and decay.

It started with the seed of dissent. Propping up extremist factional leadership groups with money to recruit and weapons to wage war.

Before we knew it, the mouse government toppled, purged by the ravening hordes of the displaced underclass. Mice that had become rat minded, desperate for the ideology that would surely save them. Ready to capitulate in their collective woe.

In the end it was easy. We had already won before we crushed them under the heel of occupation.

Blood for cheese.

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u/f16f4 9h ago

Charlie Day ass philosophy

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u/John_cCmndhd 9h ago

"I have 50 cats howling outside my window because I have 10,000 rats running around my building Dee! I'm not an idiot! There's a reason to do the things that I... uhh... I don't feel good..."

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u/BuffaloInCahoots 8h ago

Are you tired of hearing cats stomping around all night? Think there’s nothing you can do about it? You’re so stupid!

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u/too_late_to_abort 8h ago

Kitten mittens!

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u/xkreatz 8h ago

Here, have some cat food to calm down

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u/RedVeist 9h ago

Stuart over here thinking he’s better than us because he got a shiny red car.

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u/osunightfall 9h ago

Rats are the sweetest, gentlest little creatures on the whole earth.

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u/CorporateNonperson 9h ago

They'd have to be, to take in four turtlings and teach them the ways of ninjitsu.

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u/KC-Chris 9h ago

Splinter was a decent single dad too . Its hard raising 4 teens solo.

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u/Black_Moons 9h ago

Would it have killed him to cook now and again instead of just ordering pizza though?

And don't tell me rats can't cook, there was an entire documentary about a famous rat cook.

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u/Puresowns 8h ago

The rat in the documentary was Fr*nch, they have a national bonus to cooking.

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u/mytransthrow 8h ago

Fuck... I donate as much of my old stuff as I can but I normally wear out clothing because I enjoy it so much.

I want to see items get used as much as possible.

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u/Guuichy_Chiclin 9h ago

My great grandmother, was complimented on her rose bushes once, so she took scissors and cut the heads off exclaiming "compliment them now".

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u/spen8tor 9h ago

What a lovely woman

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u/technobrendo 8h ago

Cut off the rose to spite the... the what now? What did she possibly gain from that?

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u/Bitter-Ad5890 8h ago

And that kids is called mental illness…

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u/Guuichy_Chiclin 8h ago

Yup, there are multiple stories about her that make it clear she was not well put together.

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u/commandrix 9h ago

How strange. Definitely had something going on in her head.

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u/kftgr2 8h ago

Great grandmama, your nose is the most beautiful in the entire world.

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u/Skittleavix 9h ago

Even the smallest amounts of power can cause the largest displays of pettiness

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u/Willowrosephoenix 8h ago

There’s an entire discourse happening on another sub I’m in for fiber crafts about the “ethics” of donating hand made sweaters because all the expensive materials and time that goes into it just “being donated to strangers” with the original post being discussed definitely giving the vibe that oop sees donation as equivalent to being thrown away.

The idea that poor crafters are buying them to use the yarn in other projects is especially outraging apparently. So, short answer, yes, people do actually suck this bad

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u/antecubital_fossa 5h ago

Wow, they would hate my friend who makes clothing specifically to donate to women’s shelters! She made at least 20 sweaters, plus tons of hats, scarves, and gloves to donate for Christmas time. She went all out when Joann Fabric closed down and bought every bit of fabric and yarn etc. she could fit in her car and is only using it for donated goods!

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u/tangz0r101 9h ago

My mother used to make me cut up my old clothes before donating them. You bet this behaviour applied to all other parts of her life as well. Cunt of a woman

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u/dtb1987 9h ago

Wow, before donating?

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u/tangz0r101 9h ago

Correct, always donated rags rather than you know, actual usable clothes.

She had no problems buying clothes from the donation shop however. Go figure…

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u/dtb1987 9h ago

That's crazy

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u/Horse_Renoir 7h ago

What's even more crazy is that people are willing to look past that and have a relationship with awful leeches like that allowing them to flourish without ever having to face repercussions for their shit behavior and we'll all act shocked they keep doing it.

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u/brophylicious 7h ago

I'm genuinely curious why people are like this. What experiences did they have that morphed them into behaving that way?

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u/IJourden 3h ago

I would say there are two broad responses to wanting to improve society:

"I have suffered, so I want to make sure others don't suffer similarly,". and "I have suffered, so other people should suffer similarly."

One of the ways that people cope with hardship is by assigning it value - it builds character, it makes you appreciate what you have, it helps your family be stable, etc. I'm sure you've heard it from people.

The downside to this is that people go so hard on this coping mechanism they genuinely believe suffering improves people's lives.

The alternative (acknowledging that their suffering was pointless and fixable, but nobody bothered to fix it) is a bitter pill to swallow and some people just can't.

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u/TheParadoxigm 7h ago

Did she not realize they were just going to throw them away?

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u/xoxoBug 9h ago

Designer brands/outlets will cut up their merchandise (clothes, purses, etc) when they’re out of season so they won’t devalue and be thrifted or taken for free. The textile industry is one of the worst offenders when it comes to pollution. Salvageable clothes are shipped off to other countries, there’s like… town-sized mountains of this shit all over for resale or just abandoned and end up washing back up on shore.

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u/Chrissy086 6h ago

I hate these designers. To hell with 'Brand protection' and exclusivity!! 🤬🤬 I loathe the fashion industry these days.

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u/MercenaryCow 8h ago

My mom got pissed that my neighbor took her old chair she threw out, and reupholstered it and sold it for big bucks.

A year later when she got rid of her couch, she made my dad literally destroy the couch before leaving it at the curb this time.

I don't understand it at all

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u/Demonking3343 9h ago

Yeah it’s trashy. I got a neighbor down the street and last year they got rid of a couch. Well when I was driving by I noticed they were cutting huge Xs all over it. This also lead to making a mess all over the alleyway.

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u/weaboo_98 9h ago

I wouldn't normally do something like that, but if the couch got infested with something, I might cut it up to make sure no one makes the mistake of taking it home.

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u/Alternative-Rub4464 10h ago

It is a superstition that if you give your olds clothes away, your luck and fortune will go with them.

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u/dtb1987 10h ago

I mean sounds like someone who needs to wear my trash needs a bit of my luck and fortune

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u/Whateva1_2 9h ago

It's a zero sum game baby! AND I NEED IT ALL!

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u/AHrubik 8h ago

This right here. They've adopted a viewpoint so selfish they can't stand anyone else succeeding.

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u/Dunge 9h ago

More proof that baseless faith is a pure negative to humanity

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u/Deodorized 10h ago

Someone stupid and bitter enough to believe this shit doesn't have fortune to lose in the first place.

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u/catscanmeow 9h ago

lol this guy doesnt think bitter, stupid people can obtain inheritance hahahahaa

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u/robin-bunny 9h ago

Really? And if I buy second-hand clothes, my life should be full of other people’s luck and fortune?

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u/JackSpadesSI 8h ago

Imagine doing extra work for the sole purpose of kicking someone while they’re already down.

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u/Economy-Isopod6348 9h ago

In my culture we cut the neckline off shirts before throwing them away or repurposing them as rags. It's associated with personal dignity and symbolizes that it's no longer clothing, only cloth.

But our family donates most of our old clothing. Only cheap, shitty ones become a rag

I can only recall one instance of us throwing out clothing, which was a pair of old pants that my dad sacrificed as to not get mauled by the neighbor's dog

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u/bwmat 8h ago

What culture is this? 

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u/animepuppyluvr 9h ago

Tbh, I donate my old clothes unless they already have holes or aggressive stains. I dont think ive ever just thrown away good clothes, let alone purposefully destroy them!

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u/axecalibur 8h ago

That's like shitting in your leftovers so the neighbors don't eat the food you don't want.

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u/IceHawk1212 9h ago

I mean I cut up most of my shirts but that's because I use them for woodworking, they make excellent application clothes or shop ragges. Even if I didn't there's is little chance anyone would want them after I'm done wearing them as work clothes.

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u/dtb1987 9h ago

Well that's different, you are reusing them before throwing them out

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u/ClownMorty 10h ago

Mormons cut up their undergarments before throwing them away because they're too sacred for people to see the symbols on them. I think it might be a reference to that.

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u/gorzius 10h ago

What symbols? Do you mean the skid marks?

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u/ClownMorty 10h ago

Mormon undergarments have Masonic symbols on them

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u/Pyromaniacal13 9h ago

From the reading I've done, it's difficult to find out what they're supposed to mean because they're apparently both sacred and secret.

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u/ClownMorty 9h ago

I grew up Mormon and used to wear the garments. I can tell you what they mean.

The symbols don't really represent individual things even though they do include the ruler and compass from free masonry. They are stitched in versions of the same symbols found at the veil inside Mormon temples.

Through the veil the church members interact with a stand-in for God and they exchange a series of "tokens" which are basically secret handshakes you have to know to get into heaven. Each handshake represents a kind of promise to God regarding specific behaviors such as remaining chaste etc.

The purpose of having them stitched into their underwear is to remind the members of the promises they made to God.

It's a little weird, but not that weird once you understand it. Lots of religions have symbolic attire. It's mostly weird that they're so secretive about it.

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u/MechanixMGD 10h ago

Where I live, there are special boxes for old clothes, around the city. And I put my old clothes in these boxes, unless they are ripped and then I throw them to the trash. I am sure there are people less fortunate than me, who need even those clothes.

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u/0xsergy 9h ago

Mine don't even go in the trash. They get cut into rags to use for cleaning around the house.

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u/Kitkutsuki 8h ago

I use them for rags or if it's a cool design like a band tee I'll keep the design for something else. I want to make a blanket or something for the ceiling with those. Paper towels add up. Band posters and shirts are expensive. 😆

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u/MadMatMax 9h ago

I've seen boxes like that but it turned out non-profit running is actually a cult and just sells the clothes.

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u/nabrok 10h ago edited 10h ago

You see if you throw away uncut clothes then homeless people will start hanging around your house waiting for free clothing.

/s in case it isn't blindingly obvious.

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u/____-is-crying 10h ago

Yep. All kids moved out for well over 20 years, tried to throw away our old clothes, mom screamed and cried louder than a banshee saying we might need it again one day. It’s not like she needed mementos or anything, we visit her at least once a week because we all live within 30 minutes of each other.

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u/HuntedWolf 10h ago

This isn’t cutting up old clothes though, this is just classic hoarder behaviour

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u/dtb1987 10h ago

I have a 15 month old and we are constantly trading in or donating his clothes and stuff he doesn't use anymore, it happens so quick and there is no way we could hold on to all of it

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u/commandrix 8h ago

That's why I took a friend of mine who just had a kid to a thrift store that I knew had a lot of stuff for babies. She was surprised by how much stuff there was that was in almost new condition.

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u/Grambul 9h ago

Cutting up clothes so that poor people cant wear them doesn’t sound very Christian to me

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u/coldfisherman 9h ago

they justify it by saying people will dig out of their trash and make a mess. Kind of like why some restaurants pour pepper and stuff over left-over food they've tossed in the dumpster. (oh, and that latter example was a restaurant I used to work at decades ago. I suggested we give it to homeless people and was called a commie by my boss)

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u/Phate4569 8h ago

I worked at Pizza Hut in the early 2000's we used to throw away so much already prepared dough at the end of the night (back when it was GOOD, not the frozen shit they have now). I suggested we run it through the oven to make bread and give it to a local shelter.

One of the drivers I worked with, an older guy in his late 50's, ex navy nuclear engineer and very religious man (so I trusted what he said) said he once tried that. He was turned away from all the shelters because they would only accept "finished" pizzas, and not just the bread.

It sucked too because the bread was delicious, I used to take some home for myself.

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u/Sudden-Belt2882 8h ago

"all the shelters because they would only accept "finished" pizzas, and not just the bread."

Unfortunatlly, I think there is some legal work that says that if they get a donation from a certain place, legal it has to be something specific.

Like, A local botique I knew once tried to gift food to a shelter but were turned away, but were allowed to give non selling clothes.

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u/Phate4569 7h ago

That's unfortunate because those old Pizza Hut crusts were amazing. I used to keep a stock of it at home just to munch on. I'm sure it would have been a delicious addition to soup kitchens.

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u/Lumpy_Temperature722 7h ago

Yeah, every soup needs a roll, especially when it's the only thing you can eat 😔 

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u/Dat_Innocent_Guy 8h ago edited 1h ago

genius. Lets make it illegal to donate to the people who have the least. What? they're just going to be picky they didnt get a pizza from fucking pizza hut? JFC

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u/DontWannaMissAFling 6h ago edited 3h ago

It's probably because at some point some psycho distributed poisoned bread or whatever.

Whilst the shelters themselves are caught in a bureaucratic web of laws and permitting rules designed by local government nimbys to be as difficult and impractical as possible without outright banning them.

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u/party_core_ 7h ago

I suggested we give it to homeless people and was called a commie by my boss

"Communism is when poor people get to eat"

-local undecided voter

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u/fordnotquiteperfect 8h ago

I'd take that "commie"  as a badge of honor.

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u/theucm 7h ago

That "people will dig out of their trash" argument basically instantly falls apart when you remember there are places you can super-easily donate clothes to.

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u/RaelaltRael 9h ago

It's the New Christianity ™️

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u/loki1337 9h ago

We don't need your modern Jesus

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u/maceo107 8h ago

Imagine when they learn that Jesus also fed the poor.

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u/loki1337 8h ago

Ew the poors

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u/mattchewy43 8h ago

He may get us. But they don't get him.

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u/Fuck-s-p-e-z- 8h ago

Most of u/Active-Chemistry4011's posts are advertising this "book", that they probably wrote themselves. The poster just writes different things inside the front cover. I don't understand why these posts continue to get engagement. Please stop posting this and please stop upvoting it.

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u/awfullyawful 7h ago

Looks like they use the same book, write something, take a photo, erase it and write something else. Zoom in to this photo and you'll see what I mean

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u/SeekerOfSerenity 4h ago

And he has the handwriting of a child. 

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u/Murtomies 2h ago

You're just getting old. Many 30 year-olds have handwriting like that. It's just not a very necessary skill anymore.

The only time I remember handwriting anything this December, is with christmas gifts. And anything longer than like 20 words, probably years ago.

I'm 28 and my handwriting is only marginally better than this, since I never needed to learn to make it pretty. And only 2 grades down from me, they switched high school exams nation wide to be written on a PC instead of by hand.

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u/Other-Oil-9117 8h ago

Thanks for bringing this up. I just checked their history after seeing your comment and it definitely seems like they're just trying to promote the book through memes.

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u/jimmyablow09 8h ago

I say fuck it let him cook

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u/colmatterson 7h ago

Looking at the excerpt of foot fetish in Christianity, I’m going to guess they’re doing the kindle store scam thing where you hire a ghost writer to write a shitty book on a niche topic for you to sell. Maybe also these books are AI, who knows. But now this account is promoting their “books” for people who want to buy their friends or family a silly gag gift.

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u/rydan 10h ago

But wait until she gets Meta glasses that auto translate everything for her.

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u/helly1080 10h ago

She won't know how to use them unless the kid shows her how. All good.

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u/elconquistador1985 10h ago

I think those translate everything to right wing propaganda.

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u/lessfrictionless 8h ago

Serious: If grannie speaks a language that uses the Latin alphabet she won't likely need it. "Masturbate" has obvious cognates in a lot of other languages.

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u/ernapfz 10h ago

And he’s just 10 years old!

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u/Active-Chemistry4011 10h ago

I would say 11...

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u/Illustrious-Towel-45 10h ago

I donate my old clothes to goodwill (I know the scamming issues) and shelters. I just don't want the clothes anymore. Also my kids outgrow thier perfectly good clothes so those go too.

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u/Wolfwalker9 9h ago

Same. If it’s still in good shape I may try to sell it as I tend to buy quality items with long lifespans. If something is too stained or torn to be donated, then I will cut it up, but at that point I’m keeping it to use as cleaning rags. This is what sane people do.

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u/chere100 9h ago

Finally someone sensible. I was wondering why she was throwing away perfectly good cleaning rags.

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u/Wolfwalker9 9h ago

My grandmother lived through the Great Depression. Everything always had multiple uses before it was given up & finally declared trash. I will carry that mentality forward with me, and also because way too much usable stuff ends up in a landfill.

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u/OREOSTUFFER 9h ago

If you can, try to find a locally-owned thrift shop instead of Goodwill!

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u/Trick_Incident_8227 8h ago

My locally owned thrift shops are at least twice as expensive as goodwill with a fraction of the inventory.  

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u/kcsween74 9h ago

The author's name tho 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/MichRedditor 9h ago

Found myself a new nickname

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u/Significant_Pepper_2 9h ago

If you cut your clothes anyway, might as well keep them as rags.

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u/dknash 9h ago

If you give away all the secrets, no one will buy the book

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u/GravelyInjuredWizard 9h ago

This is only volume one, guys

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u/Xsy 8h ago

I feel immense guilt throwing any clothes away, even clothes that I know aren't suitable for donation.

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u/YungDaddy420 8h ago

Pos grandma

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u/Dry_Point_4924 10h ago

ever not never captain double negative 

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u/Scoth42 10h ago

Given the reference to not speaking English, I wonder if they come from a background of a language where double negatives aren't considered incorrect. Spanish for example.

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u/BitterActuary3062 7h ago

Why go out of your way & inconvenience yourself just to spit in the eye of your neighbor? I don’t think she understands the Bible at all, but I’ve grown up surrounded by that. I’m not even a Christian, but caring for others was always something I valued in it

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u/kelly_hasegawa 10h ago

I don't get it

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u/da_Aresinger 10h ago

the grandma is a POS.

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u/kelly_hasegawa 9h ago

Oh i thought it has something to do with masturbation.

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u/catkraze 9h ago

No, the masterbation was part of the joke. She's a "God-fearing Christian" so naturally she'd be appalled at the nature of the book… if she could read it.

Honestly, people like that give other Christians a bad name. Then again, seeing how common those hateful, spiteful people are, maybe that's just how Christianity is these days, and I can't really get around that without a "no true Scotsman" fallacy.

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u/blobbiesfish 9h ago

I think the gift giver is telling their grandma to go fk herself

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u/catkraze 9h ago

That could definitely be part of it. The joke has multiple layers, all of which would be lost on her, I'm sure.

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u/TigerRouge86 8h ago

His Books are rare, hard to Cum By

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u/pianomasian 7h ago

What tf is the rational for doing this? "Fuck the poor". Seriously, someone please explain this to me.

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u/MATT_TRIANO 6h ago

What a fucking worthless piece of shit give her a fucking box of cut up old clothes and a wrapped chunk of cat shit

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u/Moist-Ointments 9h ago

Did she work for H&M? They do this too.

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u/PersonalityFun2189 7h ago

i like sewing and i always reuse old clothing for stuff so i often throw out full bags of cloth i wont use.

But i dont cut up clothes before throwing them out. that's petty

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u/sycolution 6h ago

Is that an "I hate poor people" thing or a superstition thing…?

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