Occasionally, we come across scavengers who look more or less the same, dressed in tatters, unkempt, and walk around the garbage cans all day, so people feel that picking up things is unseemly.
If you see money on the ground, many people are willing to pick it up, and if there is something valuable lying on the ground, many people will not pick it up, but in fact, it is no different.
There is a story about a woman who saw a chair on the trash can, took it down and tried to sit on it, and found that the chair was good, so she carried the chair home.
The woman actually has a decent job, and the salary is not low, she rents a house in the city center, and the rent is 3,000 yuan a month, but this money is only a small part of her salary.
Although she earns a lot of money, she is very frugal, and she can't see waste happening.
When she was in the company, if anyone bought the express delivery, she would leave the express box, open it and sort it out, and then put it in the storage room, and she would also collect the plastic bottles left over from her colleagues drinking water, as well as the wrong paper, she would not throw it away, but carefully pack it up, and when she saved more, she would call a recycling brother and ask him to take it away.
Each time, she can sell dozens of yuan, which she does not keep for herself, but buys some snacks or drinks to distribute to colleagues in the office.
Sometimes she would go out to dinner with her colleagues, and they would order a lot of dishes to fill the table, and then everyone would take pictures first, and the girls didn't eat much, and they were full after tasting each dish, so there would be a lot of leftovers.
They seem to order so many dishes just to take pictures, the woman is very distressed when she looks at the table of leftovers, and the other colleagues feel that it is embarrassing to pack the leftovers, and the restaurants like them go in and out are only eaten by rich people, and no one cares about the leftovers at all.
But she is different, every time she has leftovers, she takes them home and keeps them in the fridge for breakfast the next morning.
There have been many times like this, and some colleagues asked curiously: Why do you save so much money, do you want to buy a house?
She explained with a smile: I don't buy a house, I just can't see such good food being wasted, this is a habit I have developed since childhood, and I can't change it.
When my colleague heard this, he showed a look of sudden realization, but he was also curious about why she developed this habit.
Don't look at her having a good job in a big city, earning a high salary, and going in and out of high-end places, in fact, her living conditions when she was a child were not good, and she can be described as poor.
The house was built with earth and straw, and there were only her and her grandparents in the house, and she had no parents since she was very young, and it was her grandparents who brought her up.
Grandpa farmed the land, did odd jobs in the slack time, grandma had to take care of her, in her spare time, grandma would take her to the city garbage can to pick up garbage, and when the accumulated garbage was more, she would sell it for money.
Every time she got the money, her grandmother would buy her a delicious little cake, and she was very happy, so she always looked forward to picking up a little more garbage that could be sold for money.
As she grew older, she became more and more capable, and after so many years of being exposed to her grandmother, she was able to tell very quickly which was worth and which was not.
She had to walk to school in the city, and every day when she went to school, she would take a big snakeskin bag and put it in her school bag, and on the way she would see plastic bottles or cardboard shells in the snakeskin bag, of course, what she wanted to pick up most was some metal that could be sold for more money.
The grandfather of the school doorman knows her family situation and always helps her, she puts the snakeskin bag in the doorman, and then goes to get it when the school is out, every time she opens the snakeskin bag, she will see the doorman grandfather put a few mineral water bottles or a few courier boxes for her.
After picking up garbage for more than ten years, she has developed a habit of picking up valuable things on the ground when she sees them, and she doesn't think this is a shameful behavior.
Even though her living conditions have improved, she has the ability to live a better life, and she doesn't need to pick up garbage anymore, she still hasn't thrown away this habit.
Once she went downstairs to throw out the garbage, and she saw a yellow chair on the garbage can from a distance, and after she threw the garbage into the garbage can, she took the chair down and put it on the ground.
Then she put her hands on the chair and looked closely, and found that the chair was not obviously broken, and it was not dirty at all, so she sat down on the chair with confidence.
According to her personality, she definitely can't bear to watch such a good chair being thrown away, so she wants to see if this chair is good, and if it is, she will definitely take it home.
She sat on the chair and swayed from side to side, then stomped her feet again, and found that the chair was not moving at all, it was very strong, this was clearly a good chair, I don't know who threw it away because it was useless.
She immediately stood up, picked up the chair with all her might, turned around and left, and after walking a few steps, she found that it was very difficult, so she put the chair on her shoulder and walked towards the house.
Author's point of view: The woman grew up in a poor family, and her grandmother took her to pick up garbage and sell it to subsidize the family, and she has developed the habit of not wasting it.
If it weren't for her grandmother picking up garbage, she wouldn't have been able to eat cake when she was a child, and she might not have the money to pay for tuition, so she knows the benefits of picking up garbage and doesn't reject this behavior.
Even if her conditions have improved, she has not forgotten her roots, and she will still feel distressed when she sees something wasted, although she will be incomprehensible by the people around her, but she still insists on herself.
Her behavior is not ashamed, and it is even worth learning from many people, some people deliberately order a lot of dishes in order to talk about noodles, and some people are worried that they will be looked down upon, so they dare not pack leftovers, and can only watch the good dishes be thrown away.
In fact, such people can learn from women, put an end to wasteful behavior, don't care about other people's eyes, and do things according to their own ideas.
Thrift is a traditional virtue, but many people have not inherited it, especially some young people who are proud of their profligacy and ashamed of thrift, which is a wrong idea.