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

COOLTRIKERCHICK

it seems as though kittie feels the same as the person who made a comment to me, which is why i started the thread,

kittie it would be nice if you could let me know why you feel like this towards the food?

we are all intitled to our own opinion based on feelings/ waste etc on this topic, but i would really appreciate it if you could let me know why the food is good enough to give to a charity, yet not good for myself and my family to eat.


I must admit the comment i had, made me feel guilty/sad that i had 'free food' through someone else dying, but as most of your comments have said, there is sooooooooooo much waste in the world, and lets be honest before intensive farming started after WWII food was never wasted and took up most of people's wages.

eco

When my mum died and we had to sort her stuff out, my sis and i made sure that if someone in the family needed items of furniture they got first dibs, and if they'd bought her something as a present they got it back, my neice wanted a dressing gown i'd bought my mum, i didn't mind eating the food but not wearing her clothes, my neice got the dressing gown. My mum was very much waste not want not and would have haunted us for ever if we'd binned anything of value, especially food.

buxtonrabbitgreen

I don't see anything wrong with it either. Looks like some more is likely to come you way then. Better than it going to landfill.
When my mum passed away I did chuck all the stuff in the fridge and freezer as I didn't know how old it was. She had a habit of hoarding. But we shared out all the tins.
I did give her clothes to the charity shop. I wouldn't have felt quite right wearing them. And I spotted someone I know wearing one of her sweaters. It was hard to stop myself from saying something as I had knitted it in the first place.

greenbee

mummysaver wrote: »

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?!

I've slept in my grandmother's bed since she died (I was 10). She inherited it from her parents, so I'm sure more than one person has died in it! Rather than feeling creepy, it makes me feel safe & loved.

As for saying the food should have gone to charity - yes, it would be nice if this was done automatically, but in this case it has prevented it from being wasted. Perhaps someone could suggest to the councils who engage the house clearance firms that they should also partner with a charity that is prepared to sort through the food and take the stuff they can use while disposing of the stuff that they can't?

tandraig

buxtonrabbitgreen wrote: »

I don't see anything wrong with it either. Looks like some more is likely to come you way then. Better than it going to landfill.
When my mum passed away I did chuck all the stuff in the fridge and freezer as I didn't know how old it was. She had a habit of hoarding. But we shared out all the tins.
I did give her clothes to the charity shop. I wouldn't have felt quite right wearing them. And I spotted someone I know wearing one of her sweaters. It was hard to stop myself from saying something as I had knitted it in the first place.

my mum gave my dads old clothes to local charity shop as they wouldnt fit any of the SILS or my bro. I am afraid I broke down in tears the next week when I saw them in window. was just the memories coming back and I didnt in the least mind they were re-used. I just hoped that the new owners had some use and enjoyment from them. so i know how you felt buxtonrabbitgreen.....torn between two emotions!

gizmo111

tandraig wrote: »

my mum gave my dads old clothes to local charity shop as they wouldnt fit any of the SILS or my bro. I am afraid I broke down in tears the next week when I saw them in window. was just the memories coming back and I didnt in the least mind they were re-used. I just hoped that the new owners had some use and enjoyment from them. so i know how you felt buxtonrabbitgreen.....torn between two emotions!

I gave loads of my kids clothes to charity and when tey saw for sale they wer upset..... it was a remember when I wore that, or the character on the front was a favourite they had grown out of, but everybody has to move on and death is no exception whne it comes to waste.

Hello

My answer would be 'hell yes', I would have no qualms about it at all. I don't understand anyone that wouldn't. Unless there was bodily fluids on the tins that is. This wasteful society we are in now makes me sad. I bet all your co-workers probably think it's all right to have huge debts on credit cards etc too! We are the enlightened ones!!

stefejb

I wouldn't feel squeamish at all - food is food

years ago myself and my girls spent a year in a Women's refuge situated in a very posh area. Although a secret location most of the nieghbours knew what the big house at the end of the road was. Every now and then well to do ladies would turn up at the house with leftovers from parties that they'd had. none of us felt squeamish about that - those canapes were an exquisite treat for women and kids who'd lives had been turned upside down

squiggles

I bet the same squeamish people would be happy to receive a dead persons organ if needed though

voiceofreason

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

Well, I make no secret of my views on wasting food: I refuse to do so, as long as there is one other person in the world, suffering or dying from lack of it. Except quinoa.

But then, quinoa's not food - it's actually a binding additive used in traditional Central American wattle-and-daub construction.

Or at least, it tastes like it.......