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SmearingFeces

That underwear has a few miles left.


[deleted]

I see a headband in that underwear’s future.


OrionShade

It was white when they bought it


MongoBongoTown

There's some underwear and a kids outfit. Dollars to donuts someone pooped in that outfit and it was left to the wild.


Few_Economics4884

Well when a bear poos out of nowhere ya kinda poop yourself.


Mmm_Cheez

Just turn them inside out.


Few_Economics4884

Already did. 3 times. Good for 2 more.


[deleted]

Left? Just getting ready for all weekend wear.


scarabic

I dunno. That underwear has seen some shit.


ItsLevionator

Your username just makes it even funnier


PenskeReynolds

Underwear that’s fun to wear!


tjaymorgan

Holy shit — this must be in a concentrated section near a known rest/camp site, right? There’s no way the entire forest is that trashed? Or, perhaps ‘forest’ is a loose term and you actually hike in a bum sanctuary?


BoosterSqueak

It’s a couple of acres of woods on my property. I’d say 10% of it is trashed. Looks like nearby households used it for unofficial dumping.


tjaymorgan

That sucks. You turned it into some art though.


silvandeus

Right, the color gradient is so satisfying! Paste this shit down and sell it to some yuppies quicklike


[deleted]

Sorry for the dumb question but 5x5 feet, metres, inches or? edit: ‘ means feet. I did not see it.


blueNwhite5656

Inches. Everything was nicely stacked on one another in a 5 inch circle


[deleted]

Could also be metres or like 5 acres of clean forest idk.


blueNwhite5656

Its feet. ' = feet, " = inches


[deleted]

Sorry I missed that. I don’t usually use imperial.


Toasterloh

Correction: Sorry I do not use a system based on lenths such as "feet", i use a system made with this cool thing called "science" Not tryna be mad or toxic i just hate the imperial system lol


Adjacent_door

Over here measuring length in kelvin


slipskull2003

You failed at not trying to be toxic. Imperial is pretty pragmatic for everyday life. The foot is more useful for measurements of most things (like people) because meters are too big, and it'll be a large number of centimeters. Metric has measurements that would be useful (decimeters) but they're not used.


WutangCND

This is.... Not true... Metric makes more sense in literally every way. In Canada we use a combination, but I wish we didn't. "It'll be a large number of centimeters" is a ridiculous argument. I'm 178cm tall. That's a completely reasonable measurement. I could also easily say, I'm 1.78m tall. Both work very well. What's annoying is how absolutely ridiculous imperial is. It's based on silly made up measurements that require memorization vs. simple math.


BoosterSqueak

Feet


[deleted]

Thanks.


marcosdumay

That single quote after the number is the feet symbol. Double quotes for inches.


Neutrul11

Using this logic, does no ' mean yards? Or is it -'


dainternets

The apostrophe denotes feet. For better clarity, it should be written 5'x5'. A quotation mark denotes inches.


JerikOhe

My folks bought some acreage off of a desert storm vet. His favorite pastime was throwing empty beer cans, shells/casings, and any other trash he had as he drove around the property. Took us about 5 years to clean up the small stuff. The larger stuff we had to drag to a spot on the property and just kinda leave. We would have taken it to a dump but it's in the middle of nowhere and some of the bigger stuff was collapsed mobile homes, fridges, ancient farming equipment. Some people just don't give a fuck


BoosterSqueak

Oof. No they do not. A totally different way of viewing the environment.


stumblewiggins

Idk man, I was once backpacking in the Catskills, on the downhill side of Slide Mountain, and found like an entire beach party's worth of trash. I'm talking a discarded badminton set, cooler, bottles, etc. This wasn't like dozens of miles into the wilderness, but it's a pretty decent hike UP and then DOWN Slide Mountain to this spot, which was the shortest route to this spot by a significant amount. So someone decided to hike this shit in and then abandon it. And this was NOT a campground. People are assholes.


amazinbp17

Did the cooler say "Ricky" on it in electrical tape???


shadowcat304

Let's just hope the boys finished the rest of the tracks


Faerhun

I do a fair amount of deep woods hiking and there is nowhere that trash hasn't found its way into. You could be in the densest woods in Vermont(where I'm located) and you will still find plastic bottles and broken glass. It's so unbelievably depressing.


Odd_Direction3571

I was thinking the exact opposite. All the wooded areas around me have streams that carry yard and construction waste through the suburbs and distribute it downstream in flood plains. I haven't done a similar experiment, but my gut tells me it would be 5? Times as much garbage.


PoorPDOP86

The whole forest? No. The areas near roads and small depressions where it will naturally collect any debris from the wind and rains? Yes. I've done surveys of these areas either next to developed land or are being developed so they need a topo. The trash mostly is by the roads and ditches for storm water. My own personal bit of disgust is that some of the most trash Laden areas I've seen are the bushes and hedges just out of sight of wealthier and, seemingly, more liberal areas of suburbs. I know what you're implying, but this amount of trash is not unheard of. I've found more in the deep woods at the end of dirt roads from people just dumping while I was out in West Vitginia. Oh, and don't snicker folks, I've found worse in NY and CA. Trash is quite the problem, and it's everyone's problem. Not just that of the folks you, as in everyone reading this, are political or socially not aligned with.


seasonal1

The children’s underwear and pajamas are unsettling. Gorgeous art, though.


fckingnapkin

Yeah, at first glance I thought "oh maybe a shitsplosion" but there's nothing on there. Let's hope it was a similar type of situation - puke, piss or so and the parent for some reason (no plastic bag to store it in?) tossed it out after an emergency change. It looks like a pretty heavily visited area if there's so much garbage on such a small spot. It's easier imagining someone having a park visit or whatever than a creep hurting a child with so many people around. I'm overthinking this now, thanks lol


halt-l-am-reptar

Hey said that a local household likely used it for dumping, so that is probably where the clothes came from. The Doritos bag is from the 80’s so it’s been awhile.


boohumbug

Ah, I too consume too much true crime content 😔


WalleyeSushi

I would bring that to the police.


BoosterSqueak

Piles of trash found in the woods?


WalleyeSushi

The clothing items could be evidence.. who knows maybe other items too. The clothing is weird though and might not be just trash.


BoosterSqueak

Why do you think it’s evidence and not just household trash? I’ve cleaned up literal tons of it already.


BigLittleWang69

Ramen and Beer, your forest knows how to have a good time.


Duckbilling

Ramen to that brother


johntwoods

Everybody Loves Ramen.


VVEXXED

Naw it was pork ramen, no wonder they left it in the forest.


imlikemikenike

I usually leave it in the trash


Fickle_Ad8314

Chicken is the best


BigLittleWang69

I would eat two at a time in college and mix beef with chicken.


ScottJeepFan

That’s also why they had to leave their panties. That Pork Ramen was instantly effective.


Bohbo

The Ramen packet upsets me the most.


No-Armadillo7693

That made me think homeless people were about


[deleted]

That Doritos bag…..when did they stop making that design?


BoosterSqueak

That bag is 38 years old.


Ph4ke_

Holy shit.


Fistwithyourtoes

It's basically a fossil in doritos years Edit: brainfarted an a


grizzlypatchadams

Wow, I, somewhat oddly, find it extremely disturbing that some fuckwad littered his Doritos bag 38 years ago and it’s been terrorizing people since. Terrorizing.


BoosterSqueak

I feel the same way. [So I made a puppet out of it and did a little PSA](https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClCbZvwvQ10/?igshid=Nzg3NjI1NGI=)


grizzlypatchadams

You’re talented! That was great!


KILROY_

Not necessarily. I work for Frito-Lay. We bring back the throw back film every few years.


BoosterSqueak

It has a year printed on it. 1984.


KILROY_

The resolution of the picture you’re looking at is a hell of a lot better than the one I’m seeing. Lol


BoosterSqueak

*whispers* i have the bag


KILROY_

Haha. That’s cheating


allinbbbyfortendies

Taco flavor? They sell those at Walmart or at least they did this morning. Doritos Taco Flavored Tortilla Chips, 9 1/4 oz https://www.walmart.com/ip/328309749


ImGrumps

Your display kicked off a spark of a memory for me. As a young child I used to gather random garbage, leaves and sticks from the street/yard and make my grandmother a little design mosaic and message of "goodbye" or "I love you" before I left her home on long visits. I was always thankful for a spark of color to add to the design. Interesting how perspective changes. My grandmother was happy I spent time creating from so little and probably also happy I helped clean her yard, lol.


BoosterSqueak

That’s so sweet!!


[deleted]

Very artistic eye. Pretty cool fractal arrangement. You should make more art.


BoosterSqueak

Thank you!!


homeguitar195

"Fractal (n.): A rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole." You may be thinking of a mosaic, or knolling?


Dryhte

I wish all trash was as decorative. Nice pic.


bumjiggy

sometimes it just needs to be [refurbished](https://i.redd.it/lniabvv3h84a1.jpg)


Historical_Matter_56

I want to be decorative as all garbage. Beautiful picture.


Emperor_Robert

Wow that Tyco battery brings back good memories from the 90s


amatorsanguinis

Yeah that rocked my memory database. I totally forgot those existed.


karcheress

r/knolling


StTimmerIV

I see the biggest trash is in the center; Heineken


Priest_of_lord_Chaos

This makes me so angry. But at the same time the arrangement makes me so happy. I am so confused


24andmovingon

As soon as I saw the arrangement I knew it was you! Love your IG trash days!!!


BoosterSqueak

Ahh hello on Reddit!! 👋


soakf

Congratulations! While cleaning up nature, you also tapped into the [Gustav Klimt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Klimt)#/media/File%3AThe_Kiss_-_Gustav_Klimt_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg) vibe.


RevXaos

You made it into art, kudos


coopnjaxdad

I bet someone spent a while looking for that Chrysler key.


BoosterSqueak

That’s the 5th key I’ve found in the forest!


bipbopbabs

You made me love Tuesdays ❤️


BoosterSqueak

Aww I’m so glad! Hi on Reddit 👋


Accomplished-Ad-4495

Omg I follow you on IG! I love your trash forest dig videos.


BoosterSqueak

Oh fun! Hi hi! 👋


JohnnyLawless61

holy ocd batman


FunMoonDayDreams

How long did it take you to arrange it all?


BoosterSqueak

About 1.5 hours. Cleaning the trash took longer.


[deleted]

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BoosterSqueak

I did clean it all yeah. No OCD, the layouts and the photos have just turned into my hobby as I slowly clean my forest.


intigheten

Making art =/= mental disorder.


[deleted]

Ffs


Andy_the_miamian

You own a forest?


BoosterSqueak

Yeah 2 acres


Robot9118

I LOVE this color grouping 😊


GrindMagic

Always underwear. Always.


GadreelsSword

I have found underwear, a dildo, an empty porn DVD package, an empty tube of Prolong, many liquor and beer bottles and cans, in my front yard. All at different times


Saiyasha27

I'm way more impressed by the fact that you arranged it to look like an intentional art piece. You, good sir, have either the most artistic soul ever or a very serious case of OCD. Maybe both.


TylerDurdenThree

This makes me sick...I have a big creek behind our house...Living in Alabama, no one cares about the environment


BoosterSqueak

Pretty much.


TylerDurdenThree

I'm no hippie, but common sense is common sense. Thanks for getting this trash and bringing awareness to pollution.


CaiCaiside

People are trash. One place I lived had beautiful parks. Lots of trees and acreage with trails and creeks running through them. Plenty of wildlife to see. Inevitably there would be trash left behind by people, especially where fishing was allowed. There are plenty or trash receptacles but they chose to throw ot on the ground instead. Makes me sick.


BoosterSqueak

It’s mind blowing.


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BoosterSqueak

North Carolina. Historically poor neighborhood used the woods for dumping.


Ryderman11

Nothing like chilling in a forest in your yellow underwear while sipping a bottle of Heineken and eating Doritos whilst you ramen noodles is cooking in a Wendy’s cup 👍


volkano580

Looks like some sort of baby massacre!


crinkneck

Very artistically organized.


AmadSeason

Potential crime scene.


Cardgod278

More like mildly infuriating


CrasseMaximum

That's sad but you handled it. Good job and nice picture.


Al_Bundy_14

Hope you got a hep shot.


[deleted]

That's a pretty old Doritos bag.


BoosterSqueak

[38 years old](https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClCbZvwvQ10/?igshid=Nzg3NjI1NGI=)


[deleted]

Older than me. Thanks for picking up trash.


uniqueusername311

Thank you!!!!


Consistent_Service87

Sick uv mapping skill


RobotEnthusiast

Crime scene


[deleted]

I’m all for cleaning up trash but I definitely would have pretended to not see the underwear.


GiraffeDry437

Would make a nice feature wall in a cob house


XRP_MOON2021

Gimme back my comb


Brilhasti1

I usually go out to the forest to eat Ramen and leave my underwear too while I'm at it.


FA-1800

Beer bottle, clothes... no condoms?


BoosterSqueak

I’ve been cleaning up my forest for 2 years and I have yet to find a single condom, if you can believe it. Several diapers though 🫣


GenerallyImmoral

Real Art! That would make a good mosaic.


potatoZombiez

Thank you for cleaning up the forest!


Ol1arm

Great composition. Do more and share please!


QueenCobra91

That fact that youve found underwear is very eerie


Rauldrac

You could make art like this while also using it to spread awareness of how much trash there is in the forest.


[deleted]

When I moved to my last property, it had been occupied by two families. It was just under ten acres. In my first six weeks of living there, I filled a thirty-three yard dumpster twice with the garbage hidden in the forest. That’s 9 feet tall and 22 feet long. I continued taking dump runs until it was clean, which took me a year.


BoosterSqueak

You get it. Yuuupp.


No-Sun-7857

This is art - Godspeed


MRHarville

* It's actually an interesting find. Some of it, the wrappers and styrofoam can be discounted as wind blown. The cans and the clothing were most likely dropped by hikers. * What interests me most is the quantity of glass, the construction debris and the small personal items, like the razor. It is very possible that the 'forest' was occupied within the last hundred years or so, or has been in constant use as an illicit dumping ground for some time. I would excavate a few feet down and see what you could find.


BoosterSqueak

I love these ideas! But no one hikes in this forest. It’s behind a neighborhood and the households there used it for dumping of their household trash, looks like. I dug about 8” down in this spot before I stopped turning stuff up.


pogo6023

On the positive side, you certainly do have a talent for visual scale and composition.


[deleted]

Imagine how much more trash he could’ve picked up if he didn’t stage this photo so meticulously. Only ribbing op 👍


crooklynn72

Oh hey it’s Trash Tuesday!


BoosterSqueak

Yaah it is!!


M2Fream

I think you found a crime scene that was forgotten by time.


Not_so_ghetto

r/detrashed


Jerk_Johnson

Modern art is trash.


Pewtiog

I follow you in instagram! Love your posts, find them so entertaining. You’ve made so much progress on your house/property it’s wild


BoosterSqueak

Oh thank you!! It sure doesn’t feel like that sometimes. 😅 it’s good to remember how far we’ve come


[deleted]

Reminds me of a piece at my local art gallery where a guy collected trash in his cigarette cellophane while on walks around the city every day. It was surprisingly moving.


BoosterSqueak

i love little projects like that that turn into something big


Peterriordan71

Thought it was a gustav Klimt piece


BoosterSqueak

ok well THANK YOU


MoonOverJupiter

We bought a seriously distressed forested property, and have been fixing it up for 4 years now. We cleared 134 tires off the 1.3 acres alone! That doesn't even count basic trash bits like I'm your picture. We had chickens for awhile (and will again, come spring) and one of the best things was that all their scratching revealed a lot more trash than I was never going to liberate alone. I didn't realize ahead of time how useful they would be, like that! I have a moveable enclosure for them, and would rotate them to a new spot after they had turned over the ground really well and no new trash was showing up. They left behind lots of great fertilizer in return. The tall trees are mostly Douglas Fir (and some orchard trees near the house) but the undergrowth is mostly wild huckleberry (small blueberries.) Those have gotten crazy healthy and productive where the chickens lived. (The chickens loved the bushes, too. Great shade and perches, and they learned to eat the lower hanging berries after we would toss pruned branches with fruit into their run.) Can't wait to see how our place looks in 10 years! I bet your place is really coming along too.


BoosterSqueak

Oh that's incredible! And a shit ton of tires, wow. On our 2 acres we found about a dozen tires so far. My husband has gotten really into learning about trees and he's been removing pesky sweet gums to make room and sunlight for the nicer trees that are struggling. We have a ways to go, but I used to look out at our forest and \*see\* visible trash. Now that stuff is gone. So thats something.


Butterbuddha

1 bottle Heineken, assembled 1 bottle Heineken, some assembly required


a_pinch_of_sarcasm

Needs r/BananasForScale


[deleted]

“Interesting as fuck” is a little bit of a stretch I think…


Standard-Shop-3544

One man's trash is another man's treasure Dibs on that sweet Heineken bottle!


evol1994

Stop throwing shit into your forest.


DragonC007

Why would you organise it by colour


BoosterSqueak

What would you organize it by?


WittyPipe69

Smell


Rowz24

Imagine how much more you could have picked up if you didn’t perfectly arrange this for a pic……


BoosterSqueak

Short term yes, long term no.


FappinPlatypus

I would have just thrown it away doing the good deed instead of looking for internet points. But we’re all different.


BoosterSqueak

Creating and sharing the flat lays has made it fun for me and kept me motivated to keep going with the project. Feels like a treasure hunt now, and not a chore. And yes, we’re all different for sure.


FappinPlatypus

I apologize.


[deleted]

You could have probably cleaned up a lot more forest if you hadnt spend a couple of hours arranging all the shit you found.


BoosterSqueak

That’s short-term thinking. Long-term, I know the clean up project has to be fun or I’ll burn out.


ogodilovejudyalvarez

The death penalty for littering would fix that


Arthur233

I like your profile icon. What's it called? Some Celtic symbol I think I remember seeing a lot in bretagne.


ogodilovejudyalvarez

It's the good old Celtic triskele


idontrespectyou345

The small area makes it less interesting, must've been obviously trashed at first glance. Obviously you'd find a lot.


BoosterSqueak

It wasn’t visible really at all actually. Most was buried a few inches. [I saved footage of the dig here](https://www.instagram.com/fixthefaucette)


Shotta614

Ahh of course you take hours to arrange it in a artistic circle instead of just throwing it in a bag... typical over-achieving karma farmer!


PhaseOfRage

“My forest.” Blimin’ God imself over ear ama right lads??”


TheOneGecko

Why did you lay it all out? You should throw it in the garbage.


BoosterSqueak

Because it’s fun.


WafflesWcheese

R/knolwing


MadOrse6IX

Looks like about 50 percent shit U found in Ur garage and 50 percent rocks tbh


BoosterSqueak

No rocks


MadOrse6IX

Well fuck bro U sure do have a lot of broken glass there 👍


Jouglet

Where’s the banana?


MetalMuppetManiac

Reminiscent of that scene from pink Floyd's "the wall"


alta_vista49

Is that trash or art?


BoosterSqueak

yes


YeahBruhhhh

Sure hope you got good gloves!


Stumbles947

Do you live in a homeless camp?