Do you ask your neighbors for things when you run out?
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Yes i do and i always say please can you help me with some flour or any other thing you do not have,and make sure i return it back to her with some thank you food that i made with it.
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They take it out of your checking account, generally most ask for a blank check for this type of situation; it happened to one of my neighbors.
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hey! girl if you have a lot shre it with me huh?\nhahahahha
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If a person is in need of a furniture, sometimes people that just bought new furniture will leave their old furniture near the road for the trash pick-up to pick-up.   So you can walk around and see if anybody is throwing any furniture away and if you see something that you may need, go get your truck and pick it up and take it home.\n\nOne time, we sat out a microwave that was fried.   We were cooking something and the microwave started sparking like too much electricity was going through it.   You know when you have a 10V device and you try to run 20V into it.   What happens?   You are right, too much electricity goes through it and burns it up.   We sat that out near the trash, along with a 19 inch computer monitor that did not work, and someone came by and picked them up.   I'm glad that person could use those things.   I don't know what that person will use them for.  Maybe he knew somebody that recycled electronics and would give him like $5 for all that stuff.\n\nYou could also look in garbage cans, and garbage dumpsters.  Sometimes people throw good stuff away.  I once knew a person that found a baby doll missing one eye.  I'm sure that could be easily fixed.\n\nIf you are a smoker, instead of buying your own cigarettes, you could try bumming.  How bumming a cigarette works is, you go up to someone smoking and say, (look really desperate and tired) could I bum a cigarette off you?  Act like you are using your last bit of oxygen talking to the person.   If you don't like to bum, then you could look in ashtrays for cigarettes.   Most people won't finish a cigarette.  They take a some puffs and put it out, leaving a pretty good length to smoke.\n\nMy ideas of getting stuff for free.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\nGillette sent me a brand new razor about 6 years ago.  I still use it to this day.  So you might try writing to Gillette and asking them if they would send you a free razor.   Make the letter sound like you really want to support them.\n\nTrojan gives away free condoms to young people to show that they care about preventing youth pregnancies.   So you might want to write them and ask them for some condoms.\n\nIf you drink a lot of sodas, say Pepsi, save up your receipts and send a letter along with the receipts asking if they would send you some coupons or give you a free case of soda since you support them so heavily.\n\nI think baseball stadiums gives tickets away.  These tickets won't give you good seats.  You might need binoculars to enjoy the game.   I don't think the free seats will provide view of the big screen because you will be way up in the air right underneath the roof, so that roof might block your view a little bit.  Oh, and I don't think the food vendor person is going to walk all the way up there just to give you a hotdog and drink.  They serve only people closest to the field.
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There was a day in America when people greeted new neighbors with a basket or card. Invited them over for dinner and so on. Now even in small ND or MT communities you can live there for years and not know the person next door.\n\nI would like to see folks treat each other as they would like to be treated, Forgive others who wrong them, feed the hungry with the extra they have.When they go to the closet and see an extra coat, stop and think if they know someone who may need it rather than toss it in the trash.\n\nI would also like to see the local church open the doors all night and have huge signs pointing to the refrigerator, cupboards, and dishwasher. Telling any who come there to eat all they can, clean up their mess, and donate back what they have used when the time comes they can.\n\nI could go on....\n\nGreat Question\n\nPeace to you and your home,\n\nBondservant
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Try asking your other friends.
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Don't you think you are asking for too much?
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It depends if you're a giver or a taker, if you have everything and give nothing in return like those nasty little rich bitches, then yes you're over privileged. I live in a bad area but the people are basically kind and willing to help their neighbours, I think we're the privileged ones.\n\nJust remember, you're going to reap what you sow.
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when no petrol is available
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not if you got a neighbor like mine
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An ongoing problem for condo owners.  Luckily our trash gets picked up at each door.  But for those who have bins, people just drive up in the middle of the night, dump carpets, shingles, or any refuse they need to get rid of without having to pay for it.\nI guess the trick is to catch them and report them.  Maybe they can get fined.  Not sure about the rules in this case.\n\nI guess I wasn't much help in an answer.  But perhpas if you all get together (your association) they can come up with an alternative that would solve your dilemna.  Perhaps a different garbage collection system.
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yep and thers left overs in the fridge\nPS please do your dishes
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If you go to church, you could ask you pastor, if you could set up some kind of box where people could donate items. You could also, let your neighbors know your trying to raise money for someone and have a big garage sale. \n\nI don't know what else to say other than, government assistance, for them, and it help out allot to get people back on there feet.\n\nI hope this helps,
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There's an old guy in my neighborhood who collects cans. I saw him as I was walking to the store. It was really cold out,I was wearing gloves. I noticed he wasn't, & he was pushing a shopping cart. I told him to wait, ran back to my house and grabbed a pair I use for chopping wood and gave them to him.\n\nWhat goes around in life, comes around.
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You have to ask them if the house is available for purchse.
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you should go around your town looking for donations!
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The best way to get a neighbor to stop borrowing and asking for your time is to counter what she do. Have a plan. Have in mind something to borrow in return that will be hard to say yes to. Example; If she ask to borrow your lawn mower, ask to borrow her car ( you heard a knocking sound in your car engine and it worries you). If she/he wants to borrow a cup of sugar ask to use her mobile phone and talk on it for as long as you can. Remember the trick is to ask for things at least 3 times more valuable than what she is asking for. After a while she will avoid asking for things because she can't afford to do so. Also, she will start avoiding you like the plague.