Is this bad???

I would have taken it too. Plus, I wouldn't have cared if I was seen. Too many people are doing without and have a hard time clothing the kids and themselves for me to worry about some neighbor looking crossways at me.

I was trash picking on time in an affluant neighborhood and found cash in the trash. Real money in a coffee can, not much about $6 but, they threw it out and it was obvious because it was right on top in the can.

I was real happy to get that $6. If I see something nice in the trash, I pick it up. I can always sell it online.

Call me a trash picker but, I have a good sense of value.
If you were ever homeless, (I was), you wouldn't pass up nice usable stuff.

I think what you did was great. I always take stuff I don't want anymore to Goodwill or other charities. As an aside, it's kind of traditional here in certain neighbourhoods for people to put stuff they don't want anymore out on the curb with free signs on it a couple of days before the first of the month (moving day) and lots of university students come round to pick up stuff to furnish their places.

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I want to thank everyone for their words of encouragement. I have "always" been a "giver" type of person. One year, around Christmas, we were having storm windows installed. I made a "big fruit basket" for the guy who installed the windows, or one year I paid a friend's electric bill and didn't tell them. Sometimes it is just the little things that counts. But over there years, I've had not a whole lot to give, and when I saw those clothes discarded all I could think of was all the folks that are struggling. So I nabbed them...

My son and his g/f came over last night to visit "puppy".. When she saw the clothes she said her brother could wear them. So she took jeans and jean shorts and baseball caps and what doesn't fit her mom will take to goodwill or salvation army. So already, something good came out of my grabbing the clothes.

Again, thank you everyone for your positive feedback....