I Hate To See Waste

[SIRandyraven]

Well now returned to uk after living in a furnished apartment in Switzerland.
The landlord had sold the place (3 bedroom apartment for 1.2 million GBP) and a very nice retired couple. They own two other apartments and a large house where they live in on lake. So they are not short of money. Good luck to them as retired doctors.
Anyway we were told that all the rather expensive furniture and fittings we had taken care of for 3 years was going to charity , except for 2 designer glass desk and a table that they paid £8,000 for 5 years prior and wanted to keep ...Gulp as I found out what they were worth.
So we packed up all our boxes (personal stuff - 56 boxes of it lol) and it was sent back to uk.
5 days later the charity man turned up and selected just 8 items ....we were surprised and he said the charity had enough stuff to sell already blah blah .
We were now in a hotel for 4 nights to allow for apartment deep clean and place had to be empty. So agent turns up next day with a open back truck and I watched two Eastern European men smash everything left with hammers and feet.
Such a huge huge waste ...it was enough to make you want to cry.
Duvet sets still in shrink wrap that we never used ...
Towels never used....
We bought own duvet , sheets , towels from uk.
Fitted units they paid £8,000 to have fitted in 2014, ripped from walls and smashed up with a hammer.
Lamps that were still inboxes that we never used (box had price of CHF 160 on it £130 ish)...flattened via feet and dumped ...4 of those ...and so it went on ..
Sofa leather 4 years old .designer of course ..onto truck to be dumped .
The waste was criminal.
But hey ho not my problem ...
Too late for us to take anything , because all our stuff had been sent to uk already and we were living from cases in hotel for 4 nights.
Typical Swiss ....
Even the Eastern European men said they did not any of it ...but I suspect they kept some stuff. But I did watch them smash up oak units , tables , beds etc with a large sledge hammer

[hereIam]

Yes that is a sad waste and I totally agree. I remember when my lovely Grandma died and we had to get rid of a lot of her stuff, as there was nowhere to take it and we couldn't 'rehome' it all. Heartbreaking to dump it. She always wanted me to have her display cabinet and I did, and I treasure it.

[Mamyalynne]

Good links which reinforce the point , there's too much waste - be it food or good furniture,bedding or electrical goods.


So we are all in agreement then.

Meant to add welcome to AB Belladonner.

[vulcan42]

I don't understand council attitudes to recycling. My local depot has numerous signs everywhere saying do not remove anything from the skips, you will be prosecuted. My Idea of recycling is somebody finding a use for an item discarded by another, the council seems to think that anything that goes into a skip will be interred for ever. Why don't they have an "open night" weekly/fortnightly where people can remove items if they can make use of them? More items would be recycled and less items going to landfills, makes sense to me.

[windywillow]

Interesting links, belladonner, thank you. Words fail me.

[SIRandyraven]

Belladonner - You are reading too much into my post on waste.
I was just commenting I thought it was a waste. No hang ups or chips on shoulders.
If you post with a mindset like that, then not a good testing of water on here.
You need to be less aggressive and chill lol