i feel a bit guilty now, but would you do it?

bluebag

Well if I snuff it I hope someone gets some use out of all my stuff, I'm not going to need it. All the years and years I've spent saving pennies and doing without, I would be very upset to think stuff was wasted.
It's criminal to waste food when half the world is starving.
I frequently buy stuff from charity shops, how much of that stuff is from the deceased? and we don't even know! Eveyrone I know donates all the clothing to charity when someone dies.
Good use of resources that would otherwise have contributed to landfill in my estimation.

[Deleted User]

Taking food home from a dead relative is very different to taking from a complete stranger. it should have been packed and given away to a charity and certainly not eaten by any house clearer. It makes my skin creep

COOLTRIKERCHICK

kittie wrote: »

Taking food home from a dead relative is very different to taking from a complete stranger. it should have been packed and given away to a charity and certainly not eaten by any house clearer. It makes my skin creep

in what way does it make your skin creep?

funkymonkey849

kittie wrote: »

Taking food home from a dead relative is very different to taking from a complete stranger. it should have been packed and given away to a charity and certainly not eaten by any house clearer. It makes my skin creep

Why does it make your skin creep? It's not like she stole it - it was going in the bin

Seakay

What's creepy?
Should she have waited until it was in a bin and then got it out to use?
She didn't take from a stranger - it's her job to assist in house clearances and up to her to make use of the unwanted contents however she sees fit.
If the deceased wanted their processions donated to a particular source they would have mentioned it in a will, surely?
In the absence of an instruction or someone to act as executor it's down to the professionals to make a judgement call.
Who do you think should be responsible for packing and giving away items to an assortment of charities?

[Deleted User]

I think I would feel worse at the thought of binning perfectly good food I see nothing wrong in what you did and its a shame more people don't have a more sensible idea about food waste.I would have done the same . To put good edible food into landfill is a dreadful waste No you eat it up and enjoy it I amke you completely right.

KatieKins

Waste not want not. I would be quite miffed if I died and anything got dumped with nobody getting any use from it! I am only 27! When my grandad died we ate some of the food from the cupboards and the freezer (we stayed up at his house til the funeral).

What would be the point in chucking away 2 meals worth of food and then going out and buying 2 meals worth of food? Food is food - it went from store to cupboard/freezer.

I also have some of my nans old dresses which I occassionally wear. I don't see anything wrong with it. I think that she is probably smiling seeing me wear them.

It's nonsense to worry about it being from a 'dead person'. It's not a plague it's just a fact of life.

I read an interesting article on the bbc news once about these companies who ship off bales of clothing to poorer countries for traders to purchase there and sell on. One guy who was a shoe seller commented to the reporter that they didn't mind that the shoes were worn by people who were now dead. The reporter explained to him that it was not always donations from deceased people and that often we chuck things out over here. He was genuinely surprised and said that he was happy to live off them whatever.

I found this article to be quite an eye opener in terms of making us think that we chuck away perfectly good items on a daily basis.

mummysaver

I'd eat it - and happily! I'm sure if it had been a cupboard full of alcohol there'd have been a queue of people willing to drink it!

Antiques, houses, inheritances, all come come from dead people and very few living people turn them down because someone has died in order for them to gain!

As for the poster who wondered if the duvet might've scarred her son, well all I can say is my nan died and the next day her bed was in my bedroom, I was 14 and there seems to have been no long lasting damage! I needed a new bed, my nan no longer had a use for it, hence the family donated it to me! Perhaps we were just too poor or sensible to worry?!

tandraig

kittie wrote: »

Taking food home from a dead relative is very different to taking from a complete stranger. it should have been packed and given away to a charity and certainly not eaten by any house clearer. It makes my skin creep

so - it should have been given to charity - and just what do you think, kittie, a charity would do with it? frame it and give to the Tate gallery? or do you mean to a homeless shelter or soup kitchen?
Its ok for those unfortunate people to eat it then? obviously you think YOU are better than them in some way.

luckily kittie, you are not being asked to eat any of it. I suggest next time you are invited to a friends for lunch or dinner you ask for the provenance of everything you are served as you dont eat dead peoples food. - I can almost guarantee you wont be asked back!

gizmo111

kittie wrote: »

Taking food home from a dead relative is very different to taking from a complete stranger. it should have been packed and given away to a charity and certainly not eaten by any house clearer. It makes my skin creep

How ridiculous - What is different from a charity eating it as opposed to a family?