Got roasted on Facebook for grabbing dirty leftovers

I used to be pretty casual about grabbing anything that looked half decent from the apartment complex dumpsters near my place. Then my neighbor saw me pulling out a box of cereal and said 'you know that's been sitting open for three days right?' and she was right, I hadn't even checked the inner bag. Now I actually open everything before I take it home. I check for bugs, moisture, weird smells, that kind of stuff. It takes an extra minute but it saved me from bringing home a bag of flour that had weevils in it last week. Also started bringing a little flashlight because some of those dumpsters on the north side of town get zero light at night. Has anyone else changed up their process after getting some real talk from a friend or stranger?

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the_thomas1mo ago

Hold up, you were pulling cereal out of a dumpster? That's a whole different level of commitment right there. Doing that on the regular takes some serious guts, I gotta give you that. At least you figured out the flashlight trick before you grabbed a bag of something that was really nasty.

seth_carr1mo ago

Yeah man I had a similar wake up call with thrift store clothes. A friend told me she saw a roach crawl out of a coat I was about to grab. Now I check every seam and zipper before I even try something on. Better safe than sorry.