Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Throw away


If you throw away something you get rid of it, you discard it, throw it in the trash or you could be wasting something, especially an opportunity.

1. What do you do with your old clothes? Do you throw them away, sell them, donate them to a charity or let them pile up in your closet? Normally in a large family with lots of children, the clothes are handed down from the older kids to the younger kids for them to wear. They don’t throw the clothes away. The old clothes are “hand-me-downs” because they are handed or passed down.

2. Do you save the leftover food from any meal, do you usually give it to the dog or throw it away? There is an English saying which goes like this: “Waste not, want not”, which means that if you don’t waste anything, you will never need or be without anything.

3. If you don’t take advantage of a good opportunity, it can be said that you are throwing it away. Have you ever thrown away an opportunity because you didn’t try?

 
4. There are some people who don’t throw anything away - they save and keep absolutely everything. These people are called hoarders, because they hoard (keep/ collect) everything, which in its extreme form is really a mental illness.

5. A throw-away society is a society which consumes a lot of disposable items that are thrown away. On the top of the list is the US, followed by Russia, Japan and Germany.

5 comments :

  1. Do we have any "hoarders" out there?

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  2. Yeah, I have to admit that I tend to hoard some stuff. By stuff I mean these small memories from significant moments of your life, my heart is just crying when I have to throw them away. Luckily, nowadays I cannot afford to keep loads of things, as I am always on the move, not staying at the same place for more than 1 year. So all my belongings can fit into 2 suitcases:)
    rita

    and thanks again for taking care of your examples! Good work!

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  3. Hi Rita,
    your lifestyle sounds a lot like mine... a few years ago. I didn't have the luxury of hoarding things... and it was not easy to separate me from my books. Now that I have a 3-year-old daughter I still don't have the luxury of collecting and keeping things, unless I can keep them up out of her reach... and we don't have a lot of out-of-reach places! So certain things have kept me from being a hoarder... I usually have to throw away the books she destroys.

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  4. yes, having a child has it ups and downs;) My parents told me when I was very young they used to lock all the cupboards in the kitchen since I regularly tried to open all the doors and to take some cutlery, glasses and pans and so on and enjoyed making crazy noises with this kitchen stuff:)
    rita

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  5. That sounds like me too! Haha! Thank God our parents saved us from ourselves.

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