Radically Retired

Tag: Friday Freebies

  • Special Spuds

    Special Spuds

    There’s a Canadian organization known as Second Harvest. It’s been operating since 1985 and is Canada’s largest food charity.

    Their mission is to reduce food waste from restaurants and grocery stores by “rescuing surplus foods” and then offering unspoiled, yet unsold food at no cost to the hungry.

    Last week, the organization delivered a truck load of potatoes to our community.

    These were big bags of spuds and there were lots of them!

    📸 Family Place, Weyburn, SK
    📸 Family Place, Weyburn SK

    Many folks showed up to get their free spuds.

    Once those in need got theirs, a new poster was added to The Family Place FB page:

    📸 Family Place

    My sis and I decided to go get some to help with the mission of no good food to the landfill.

    The potatoes were lovely, firm, fresh, and clean (feature photo)

    There’s a similar organization in the USA, known as Feeding America.

  • Priced Exactly Right

    Priced Exactly Right

    One of my go-to phrases in recent years is that the favourite F-word for seniors is “free”.

    This week, I visited a new boutique that opened here while we were wintering in Texas.

    It’s a unique shop in that almost all of the many products from chocolate to liquorice to glassware are imported from Holland. As far as I know, there isn’t a large Dutch population in this area, so it’ll be interesting to see how the store makes out. I wish them well.

    I made one small purchase and as I was leaving, the shopkeeper told me to select a fresh cut flower bouquet from the many that were on a table near the door.

    The arrangements were made by a home business florist in a nearby town, and were no doubt brought in for Mother’s Day. It was nice to realize that the shopkeeper chose to gift these bouquets (while they were still good) to customers vs tossing them out once they were wilting.

    What a lovely gesture, and …. free sure works for me!!