Assuming you like them, when was the last time you had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? It's been a fairly long time for me. This isn't a typical pb&j because it uses Adam's peanut butter and Lingonberry jam from IKEA (great stuff). It's also on locally made whole grain bread, soft, but not too soft. Yum.
I had a few errands to run today, and while at JoAnn's I found out something really irritating. Maybe it's because I'm an artist/crafter, but it's also because I hate to see a waste of materials. Especially a blatant waste of materials.
While I was having some fabric cut, the clerk and I were talking about the scissors she was using. She reached in to the garbage and pulled out a small piece of fabric and told me to try them. After I did, I asked her if the fabric was going back in the garbage, and she looked at me and said 'don't even ask me, I can't give it to you'. She told me that any small pieces of fabric that they decide can't be sold are thrown away. I told her that's such a waste and that they should give it to SCRAP (school and community reuse action project), and she told me that worse, they throw unopened patterns away. They have to mark them as unsalable and toss them.
I told her I was going to write a letter, but honestly, I have no idea who'd I write the letter to.
Not only does all of that stuff end up in the landfill, which just irritates me, but perfectly good patterns and scrap fabric (and sometimes more than scrap fabric) are being wasted! Someone could actually use that stuff!
Who on earth decides these things? And why can't they give it to charity and take a tax write-off? I just don't understand.
I am just appalled (can you tell? lol).










