Viva recycling!

The place I have been using very often these days is a give-away shelf in my dorm. It's a place for recycling, and people leave things that others may be able to use. I started to leave more things I cannot bring with me.

In the past, I have picked up numerous things here. A pair of durable glass plates I have used for 3 years come from here, and so do a coffee mug, a pair of unworn socks, a dress, a shirt, an unworn T-shirt, a pair of sandals, file folders, an unopened bottle of Japanese noodle soup base, a bag of pasta, a box of teabags, bags of ramen noodles, boxes of cake mix, a bottle of oil... I must still be missing many items.

I had a box of academic books I could not bring with me. They were books in my field of study, but my focus had shifted and I didn't think I'd read them any more in the future. I tried to sell them, but there were newer editions of the books published, and the bookstores would not buy them. I though of donating to the library or reading room, but I got lazy. So the other day, I just left the books in a box at the bottom of the give-away shelf. As there were quite a few students in my dept. in the dorm, I just wished some of them might be picked up by those students.

After a couple of hours, I passed in front of the shelf, and I was so glad to see the whole box gone! Maybe it was a student interested in reading them all, or thought of taking the effort to give away..., anyway...

Viva recycling!