Frustration examples of wastefulness?

[Spiffingly]

I can't be the only one who likes reading threads based on annoying behaviour, if the Cheeky Fucker threads are anything to go by
Can I ask for your examples of wastefulness?
Mine was watching a friend take a length of beautiful fabric, and cut a small shape out of the centre....then toss the remaining fabric in the bin 😱

Title is meant to say frustrating!

Seeing a friend drain cooked vegetables into the sink and then put the kettle on to make the gravy.

Oh...(nervous laugh)....I do that @EatsShootsAndRuns 🤭 but I always curse myself afterwards, it's just pure habit that makes me do it.

My mum drives me mad. Eats breast off a cooked chicken then bins the rest. Doesn’t harvest a single apple from her ancient prolific tree, they just fall and rot.

People who chuck fruit and veg once the sell by date has passed.

Ah, now I can strip a chicken of every bit of meat! I tend to buy loose fruit and veg so never have a sell by date to go by.....I use the old fashioned look/smell test 😁

@Spiffingly oops

The one that still annoys me is when my 10yo dd was at school, she had to go in late because of a hospital appointment (the school was aware) so I dropped her at the gate with her packed lunch. I realised after that my bottle of cola was in her bag and not mine, but thought that I would get it back after school.

Not so. The dinner lady took the unopened cola, poured it down the sink and filled the bottle with water. Such a waste! And it wasn't even as if it was my dd’s drink, she had her children’s flask with her squash that she was actually drinking when the dinner lady interfered! The bottle was still in her lunch bag as dd knew it was not meant for her.

The apples on our tree don't go to waste, the birds eat them!

Can I add the way children let soap just dissolve away in the bath, not putting it back in the soap dish! Must be only a few pennies worth, but waste of any sort gets to me 😬

I can’t think of anything in real life but I do watch a few channels on You Tube if people in America who dumpster dive.

Some of the things they find are astounding. Loads of food that is robustly packaged and perfectly edible. The worst are college dorms just after move our day. I have seen someone find pretty much the contents of a small apartment in perfectly good condition.

The other thing I hate is some shops who deliberately damage perfectly good items that have been returned so nobody can use them. This is in states where dumpster diving is perfectly legal and items could at least be donated.

Maddening!

Worst recently was reading somewhere that someone’s DiL binned a roast turkey 2 hours after Christmas dinner - loads of meat left on it! - because it had been sitting on the sideboard for those 2 hours.

If I were a dictator (I can dream!) such obscene waste would be be punished by being thrown into a rat-infested dungeon for a fortnight, with a crust of mouldy bread thrown to them each day - if they were lucky.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER that pisses me off, wasting vegetables, or fabric is one thing.....but a life was taken to make that meal, and seeing people slice off a few select cuts before binning it makes my blood boil 🤬

I also get angry at TV 'science' experiments using meat, shooting a frozen chicken at something....or using pig bodies to test out murder theories (I'm looking at YOU mythbusters 😡😡😡). Even wasting eggs by throwing them at each other has me doing a cats-bum face.