A thrifty nurse cut her food bill by thousands after eating out of bins for four years — saving more than $23,834 on groceries.
28 Comments on Dumpster Diver Spends $30 a week on food
Comments are closed.
iOTWreport.com ©2024 ----- iOTWreport is not responsible for the content of comments. All opinions in comments are solely the commenter's.
I can’t help myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCB42DDDXPI
In all fairness she is only hitting 1 out of the 3 metrics.
That’s disgusting. I wouldn’t want to receive healthcare from such a filthy creature. A healthcare professional should know better. Don’t they pay nurses enough in Australia? She saves $120 per week on groceries, but with the time spent in such a revolting activity, she could just pull an extra shift instead. The bonus being no risk of food poisoning from eating food from such a dubious source.
When I lived in CA, 45 years, my next door neighbor was a retired school teacher from the LA district.
You never had to buy non perishables.
There was a huge Albertsons up the road plus other markets.
He would get up and go dumpster diving at the crack of dawn.
He kept at least 20 gallons of wine going at a time.
He was a true character. taught Spanish in the LA district for 30 years, he wasn’t Hispanic, they sure listened when he did use it.
Most of his “plunder” ended up on a poor persons plate.
He was a pioneer in the “left over food” movement.
That bread isn’t even wrapped!! Halfway through the video she scratches her head enthusiastically for about 10 seconds and I imagined her crawling with vermin.
45 years ago, need that edit button.
Her crawling with vermin, imagine, isn’t that a song?
How much does she spend on cigarettes?
At some point she’ll be hosting a nursery of tapeworms and God knows what else. I’ll pass.
makes you wonder if Bannon and will be joining her ….
Whenever I see a beggar at an on-ramp or the exit of the Costco parking lot, I’m reminded of “The Man with the Twisted Lip” by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle. Does the local gang take a percentage, or a fixed amount skimmed off the top? Why don’t beggars fight each other over choice spots? They must be organized, just like in the Court of Miracles in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
Clipping coupons is where *I* draw the line.
But I *still* save a load every year
(especially when combined with Buy-One-Get-One*-Free offers).
* in other parts of the country, they double or triple coupon values
Here in Houston, I guarantee many of these folks are organised. They pool the money, many find shelter in cheap motels with 5 or 6 to a room. The rest goes for booze. I’ll buy food for the most unfortunate who usually don’t beg for handouts. I never give out money.
She once spent over $20.00 a day for food. Cooking it yourself would reduce that considerably and keep you from digging in a smelly garbage can.
I wonder if her employer she use sanitation soap before work. She must spend a lot on breath mints and toothpaste. Maybe she is a graduate of a correspondence school in nursing.
well she can treat herself when she comes down with some strange illness- what a waste of time that she has left before she dies of food poisoning.
The mystery sauce leaking out the bottom of the dumpster certainly rounds out the food pyramid…
OK, $150 per week on food for one person? Whoa.
RN eating out of a dumpster? I wonder if she’s ‘recycling’ meds her patients don’t finish, too?
Next, this sort of bullshit is why even in America, you can get trailer and ghetto trash to line up for their free schooling, and folks who need a ‘hand up’ are told that they’re going to have crushing loans, ect.
@CC – your comment made me gag. lol
In response to Geeknerd. We were in Rouen, France last year and saw all the young beggars with dogs. That seems to be a trigger for those who throw their money away, seeing a pup with a dredlocked kid playing a guitar, just making his way through Europe. The area we were in was closing down for the night but we were still enjoying our wine at the outdoor cafe we were in. We looked over and underneath a building was a young man/woman (couldn’t really tell) tending to about 20 dogs! It looked to me as if they rented them out for part of the take!
If you know how to cook, you can eat very nicely for less than $50 a week, and you never have to retrieve someone else’s crap from a dumpster.
Every nasty untreatable disease imaginable can be transmitted through stranger’s saliva on half-eaten food. And there’s a lot of saliva involved on utensils, cups etc. Nauseating to contemplate.
If true this “nurse” has major psychiatric problems. Even if she’s just a glorified bedpan emptier, she must know better. Hepatitis C is some tough karma, honeychile.
I’m reminded of having lunch at a little $5 diner in Argentina at the start of their financial collapse around 2000.
Outside I see this very attractive, 30ish, elegantly attired woman striding along in a nice suit and accessories. She looked like a $100k/year middle manager on her way to a board meeting. I’m thinking how strikingly beautiful she is when suddenly she leans over a trash can, plucks out a fragment of sandwich, and pops it into her mouth. And continues striding purposefully along, chewing as she goes. One smooth motion, practiced and familiar.
Economic collapse is a terrible humbler of persons. May President Trump’s policies succeed in saving us from re-learning that here.
And if she gets thirsty there’s always that yummy dumpster juice right after a hot rain.
Yuck. Since I’ve been dieting (down 35 lbs and AC1 down to 6.1 as of today) I don’t spend more than $40 bucks a week. Again, YUCK.
The cost to her self-respect–priceless.
I’ll bet twenty years ago when Chavas was first ushering in the socialist utopia in Venezuela most residents there would have been appalled at the idea of eating from a dumpster. Now that utopia has arrived, there are probably quite a few of them that gladly trade places with this woman.
1/2 her protein probably comes from body lice.