The Pizzazzy

When one thinks recycle and reuse the first thing that occurs to you is Water. But reusing goes much further than water. When we were renting the condo we are staying in, we saw that there were quite a few pieces of tiny furnitures. Our landlord told us that you can keep whatever you want and simply leave the others near the security. There’s a guy who takes whatever is useful and disposes off the rest.

I took a look at the furnitures and kept all, basically because they were cute pieces namely two peg tables of very simple design and a green colored small computer table enough to hold my laptop. Now one of the peg table is used for my prayer corner and has our family goddess’ picture on it.

The other peg table is used as simply a peg table in the living room. The green table holds our piggy bank, the cordless and basically acts as a corner to dump bills etc. What I gathered from pur landlord was that this was left by Cathy the previous tenant.

The topic I am driving at is how one person’s trash can be useful for others. The Salvation Army head quartered in London is all about reusability. Donation in kind from individuals and companies are resold in affordable prices and the income is used for supporting Salvation Army’s social and community programmes.

You can find volunteers gathering around specific locations on holidays and collecting the donations. You can donate anything out of your closet or personal book collection or old furnitures. So before thinking disposing or dumping think Salvation Army. With a tagline of Heart to God Hand to Man this is just the concept that we need. Reuse and Recycle.

I believe that if you do not give away the old ones you cannot make room for new ones.

Okay before I sign off there is this interesting news item about how a lady found an abstract canvas painting disposed by someone as trash. This turned out to be lost masterpiece now worth $1 million. The article titled One Person’s trash is Another person’s lost Masterpiece makes really an interesting read.