{"id":49,"date":"2008-05-12T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/2008\/05\/12\/whats-in-your-basement\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T16:31:00","slug":"whats-in-your-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/whats-in-your-basement\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in YOUR Basement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about capitalism, it has its place! If there&#8217;s a demand, a supplier will appear. And the latest business I&#8217;ve run across is so perfectly American that I can&#8217;t help but admire it, although it makes me cringe a little at the same time. Pehaps you&#8217;ve heard of it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1800gotjunk.com\/us_en\/\">1-800-Got-Junk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a business that exists because we&#8217;ve got too much stuff and no time (or desire) to deal with it. Some nice, uniformed employees will come to your house and haul away a whole truckload of stuff you don&#8217;t want for a little over $500 (here in Chicago; pricing varies by location). Plus they recycle or donate some 60% of what they take away, and they&#8217;ll sweep up the place after they&#8217;ve emptied it out.<\/p>\n<p>I so enjoy the irony. We work long hours to earn money to buy stuff, and then we pay people to come take it away, all the while complaining that we don&#8217;t have enough time or money! And it&#8217;s not just one or two of us; the company expects to earn around $150 million in revenue this year.<\/p>\n<p>In the time that I&#8217;ve worked for ELCA World Hunger I&#8217;ve become much more aware of what I buy and what I waste. Here&#8217;s to hoping that once the truck leaves my house and I have a cleanly-swept floor, I won&#8217;t set to work filling it again.<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">&#8212; Nancy Michaelis<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about capitalism, it has its place! If there&#8217;s a demand, a supplier will appear. And the latest business I&#8217;ve run across is so perfectly American that I can&#8217;t help but admire it, although it makes me cringe a little at the same time. Pehaps you&#8217;ve heard of it: 1-800-Got-Junk. 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