He's not even fazed.

I shared this in r/goodwillbins and was told to share here too😊

I wanted to share this little story because it ended up being a really sweet bins moment.

Yesterday I was at the bins, basically wrapping things up and getting ready to leave. As I was heading out, they rolled out another bin, so I figured I’d give it a quick look before I left 🙃 Nothing really jumped out at first, but one bin had a bunch of small papers in it. And papers are kind of my thing. I can’t really walk past them.

I waited for the person in front of it to move, then stepped in and grabbed what I could see. I couldn’t really tell what it was at first, so I took it over to my cart to look through more carefully.

Once I started going through it, I realized it was what I call a sentimental box. The kind where, when you’re younger, you save movie tickets, concert stubs, notes, birthday cards, photos, acceptance letters, receipts from special moments. All the little things that matter to you at the time. It immediately felt like something that shouldn’t have ended up in the bins, and that it was probably there by accident. I go to the bins a lot, and I know there are plenty of photos and papers that people intentionally get rid of, but something about this felt different.

Years ago, I lost my own sentimental box. Someone threw it away without realizing what it was, and everything I had saved over about 30 years was just gone. It honestly broke my heart, and I still think about it sometimes. So when I found this, I wasn’t sure if I was just projecting, or if maybe someone really did mean to throw it away.

I went back and forth about what to do. I wondered if maybe the person had passed away and their family was cleaning things out. But I couldn’t just ignore it. I tried finding the person on Facebook first, but nothing seemed like the right match. All of this was happening while I was still standing there at the bins, trying to leave😂

Before giving up, I searched the name and address that were on some of the letters to see if I could find a phone number. That ended up being the key. I found someone connected to the address and sent a text asking if they wanted these items back.

You can see our text exchange in the photos. He came by today to pick everything up, and it honestly made me so happy to be able to reunite someone with something that clearly meant a lot to them.

I just thought it was a feel good story that some of y’all might enjoy.

*I marked out faces and addresses on the pictures

Apologies if this has been posted already 😖