Today I installed a food-sharing-cupboard in my neighbourhood!
(Thanks to @hydroponictrash for the inspiration).
I found the old cupboard in the street, took some food from our storage (mostly stuff we don't use up) and printed the paper - that's it!
For the moment, it's more of an experiment for me, gauging how my neighbours will react to this sort of thing.
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Update: bad news 🙁
It took less than 24 hours for people to trash the food-sharing-cupboard. They even made an effort to slash the packages.
I'll think about improvements - maybe a different location; maybe the cupboard isn't ideal for this sort of thing.
For the moment, I'm sad and a bit disheartened.
@lex I feel you on this. I've had my locker trashed before too. But keep going with it. It might need to be moved to a different area. Crazy teenagers seem to be the target demographic of fucking good things up haha. But if it's in the right spot (in the open but still protected, not in a spot where if people were fucking it up they wouldn't be seen) that can help.
I have it right outside my house, on a residential street for example. But I experimented with a smaller one in a public park and it went OK, with the occasional redo when someone went a little wild.
thanks! it's good to hear I'm not the only one with that experience :)
Lex
HydroponicTrash