Mine–don’t laugh–is random fruit from fruit trees hanging over walls and over the sidewalk.
Although, I once tried to take a plum from a wasp who was sitting on the fruit, and she turned and looked at me, and I quickly let go and let her have it.
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Potatoes are ridiculously cheap here right now (0,60€ per kg), so…
Home-made mashed potatoes with pumpkin. I’ve eaten instant mashed potatoes all my life, so I expected it to be more of a hassle than it was. Could eat this an entire month, its a meal to me.
24 ounce/0.71L glass beer steins that look tasteful and are heavy, but not too heavy. $1.25 each at the store.
“That look tasteful” is the hard part, haha.
this is great, My favorite foraging back in the day was a giant pear tree hung way over onto the sidewalk, I grabbed dozens of pears for months.
oh except I lived across from an abandoned orchard and seasonally got free apples while living in Portland. so that was pretty good.
My frugality this week was upcycling a pair of abandoned broken flip flops with paracord to make new huarachas, running sandals.
I also caught several ghost crabs on the beach a few days ago, enough to make dinner.
Umm… that’s actually theft. If it’s not yours don’t take it is a basic idea. Not accusing you of trespassing but even if it’s over a wall but not yours that’s still theft.
Frugal is being smart and finding good deals not taking something that’s not yours.
I turn myself inside out in so many ways and places to “be a good person” that when I’m McSuburb land and someone’s letting their nasty rotten fruit fall onto the ground from a branch hanging over onto the public sidewalk to rot on the ground with wasps and flies, I’m going to take some.
I value myself, a real living human being, AT LEAST as much as the vermin feasting on people’s fallen fruit.
Am I going to denude the whole tree? No, I’m not an asshole. But if you’re letting rats and flies and maggots eat it and it’s getting all over my shoes as I walk past…I’m going to rate myself at least as worthy as a maggot.
If the homeowner was truly bothered they’d trim the tree to keep it out of public spaces.
I am truly sorry if I added to your internal turmoil. That was the last thing I meant to do. We all have too much of that these days.
I had been on my kids recently about the idea of you find something turn it in to lost and found. If it’s not yours then “it’s not yours”. I truly have nothing against the idea that it’s hanging over a public sidewalk and you grab one. I was just in the wrong mindset to understand that you’re not saying “go pick it clean!” This is a great example of how a quick reaction to something can be the wrong thing and cause more harm than good.
I will keep this in mind when I comment on other posts in a community I am not subscribed to. I hope you have a great day and an awesome week!
If that fruit is in a public area, then that fruit is public property, legally and socially.
A 16oz can of Dr Pepper. $1.
Also, a 10,000mAH battery bank. $10. I actually got two of those.
And also a scrub brush that you would use to scrub the floors. $1.
