Do You Think It's A Worthy Theory?

[Nameless14]

I once had a youth pastor tell me you can tell a lot about a person by what they throw away in the trash. Meaning like garbagemen know more about your problems than therapists. What do you personally think about this?

[Canary42]

A load of garbage ;-)

[aelmpvw]

sounds like a load of rubbish to me ...

[aelmpvw]

:-)

[Mamyalynne]

It's just one of many strands that could tell you something about a person, by no means the only one of course.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Could put it to the test. Get the garbage of a well-known person and ask a panel to guess who it is from the contents.

You could make a TV series out of it - "Through the Bin Bag".

[Canary42]

P.S. Most garbage has to be bagged/binned up these days and garbagemen don't have time to investigate it - tip it in the truck and off they go.

[aelmpvw]

my trash is mainly newspapers and lager cans, not sure what a therapist would make of that

[sandyRoe]

I take my wine bottles to a nearby bottle bank rather than let the neighbours see the extent of my drinking. There could well be something in that theory.

[Old_Geezer]

Meaning he goes through your rubbish looking for things of interest/profit. You should give the pastor a wide berth.

[Mamyalynne]

Seems that some in 'Society and Culture' are struggling with the concept of a theory.

[Old_Geezer]

Theory/excuse much the same if someone catches you looking through their bin.

[rowanwitch]

Receipts from health food shops, worn out trainers, and empty spring water bottles. Really shouts fat bird doesn't it.

[NoMercy]

I can pretty much guess what the bin men think of us, what with our perma-overflowing bottle bin.

[EDDIE51]

I have heard of people taking expensive , top name , wine and Spirit bottles out of other people's bins and putting them in their own ,so they look 'Posher' than they really are. I mean would you want people to think that you can only afford cheap cider , when you can give the impression of being rich by chucking in some Premier Cru vintage wine bottles, or 50 year old single malt whiskey bottles ?

[rockyracoon]

"Premier Cru vintage wine bottles, or 50 year old single malt whiskey bottles ?"

If I put those in my bottle bin, I reckon I'd get burgled.

[NoMercy]

Eddie, apparently some people buy cheap ketchup and decant it into a Heinz container.

:-)

[EDDIE51]

No mercy, I do that with supermarket own brand breakfast cereal . When we have the grandkids to stay they will only eat the highly advertised 'brand name' product. So I put Tesco own label 'Choco snaps' in a Coco Pops box. They eat them and never complain, but I save 1/2 the price. I also buy supermarket tea bags for my wife but tell her they are 'PG Tips' she has never once known the difference. Again they are less than 1/2 the price.

[rowanwitch]

The lengths some people go to ,,, saying that I know a few who would worry what the neighbours though. My tip find neighbours worse than you. At least my bin wasnt overflowing with lambrusco bottles and expensive whisky bottles tend to be nice shapes and are usually recycled for making flavoured oils. or at least they used to be

[jno]

that's how a lot of identity thieves work, yes. A guy wrote a biography of Bob Dylan after going through his bins.

[snags]

The answer my friend, is lying in my bin...