I always struggle with this during garage sales. Most of the time, I don’t even want money for my stuff. I just want it to go to someone who needs it.
But if you put a FREE sign on anything, people will just scoop it up, throw it in a truck already loaded with other free stuff, and take it to the flea market to sell.
It shouldn’t bother me, since the people selling stuff at the flea market usually are pretty poor themselves and probably need to make money. But it just irks me that instead of a mom getting free clothes for her kids, that mom would instead have to buy them at a markup instead.
Lots of local subreddits have questions like this:
Where can I give my stuff away to some organization or person who will value this stuff more than me who is giving it away ?
Just let your old stuff go. If you want to take profit, take it. If you want to give profit, give it. But trying to do both is a waste of time and an insult.
I think you missed the point. The point isn’t that OP wants to make money.
You also shouldn’t try to control your kindness. If you are giving it away because you hope someone else will find use from it… Then that is the end of your need to control it. They can sell it and use the money to buy shoes and or other things they need or want.
The point is that OP wanted to be kind in a specific way and would rather enrich themselves if it couldn’t be met. Thats not kindness.
I give you a gift; you can do whatever you want. Go home and fuck it or whatever. It’s obvious I have no say in it.
But selling a gift outright right away is insulting. It’s common courtesy, then, to at least hide the fact that you’re going to.
Saying “Oh, I’m selling this” right to my face feels like a giant fuck you to me.
This poster is just about sharing divisive bullshit. None of it’s real all of its propaganda designed to get people riled up and mad at each other along class lines. Check their post history it’s all bullshit. It’s like top down meme though control
Thank you for the warning.
So let me share my experience to balance it out: in my village there is a tiny building by the road that used to be a gas station in the 50s/60s.
Today the main road has been diverted so only local traffic is passing by and the station has been closed for decades.
10 years ago a group of people decided to transform the building, they got money from the town for paint and changing the window and now it’s like a little free library but for books, toys and clothes. The whole village is using it.
A lot of it is kid clothing, it’s always open without anyone to supervise it and people are respectful, it stays clean and people don’t storm the place to resell what they can.
This sounds delightful and like a place that isn’t still paying the cost of slavery. Occasionally in areas that are rural enough there will be farm stands where folks pay for items on an honor system. But it’s gotta be pretty far away from the cities. Your town sounds like a place where people respect a basic dignity of folks and we need more of it
How can I apply for citizenship?
I’d like to bring attention to the child in this scenario.
How pissed would you be if your neighbor just gave your mom the most kick ass set of Jordan’s youve ever seen, the entire class will be jealous of them
and your mom sells it to buy wheat thins.
You as a child would not understand the need for groceries. all you know is that your mom gave away your one chance at fitting in for wheat thins.
Wheat Thins? Probably a pack a cigarettes and a scratch lotto ticket.
Who would buy “the most kick ass set of Jordans you’ve ever seen” for a boy who is still growing so fast they outgrow the shoes while they’re barely worn?
a parent with the means who wants their child to enjoy their childhood ? wtf kind of question is that?