Is it normal to feel sad for the trash you throw away?

That means you are a kind person.

I feel bad when I throw away aluminum cans because I feel like it could have been a spaceship one day and I'm wasting it's future by not recycling it.

That's so cute XD

At work I was bored so I drew a sad face on one side of my banana and a happy face on the other. It got old after a couple of days in my drawer so I went to throw it in the bin and it landed sad face up. Made me feel extremely bad haha.

I do this often. I believe that it is a symptom of VERY empathetic people. (something that is not a bad thing!) I especially feel this way around toys/stuffed animals. No worries, It's normal!

sometimes i feel that way about the food i'm eating. that if i leave 1 piece of pizza it will be bored.

Pre-hoarder? Na - trash advocate!

What a hilarious thing. I love this.

This is a ODC. You may out grow it.

don't feel bad it's like a mom dropping off her kid on the first day of school... except in this case it's a piece of trash and it wont be coming back home...

i get this feeling sometimes, especially with pretty wrapping or bows or ribbons that come off stuff. I get really protective over certain things and assume they'll have sentimental value at some point later on, and they never really do, but the IDEA that they COULD is always what gets me.

That is adorable and hilarious XDDD

I feel sad when things are gonna go to landfills, but not for the objects themselves. Maybe now that you but the idea in my head, I'll feel ad for non-recyclable straws!

I always eat all of my food because if I don't I feel bad for separating the food from it's loved ones. I dunno man...

Same here I'm like what if I was that price of trash I wouldn't like it of if they just threw me away

I never thought about it until i was pulling the cans out for pickup as the truck pulled up then i realized what the garbage goes through in the truck it is crushed very badly. Kinda felt bad for my bags of garbage but 15 mins later i forgot about it and was happy again lol

You do realise trash don't have feelings right? But it's a very interesting post i must say

Yeah I sometimes feel that too. I'm a hoarder =/

OMG I am identical I can leave 1 thing sitting out, I fear that it will be lonely and if I leave my phone alone I worry cause it's alone and I had this key finder in my bag and if anyone made a loud noise I would go off or if someone wissled it would go off and I would forget about it or I was everywhere with me and I never threw it out cause it would have been all alone with no1 there beside it :-(

This may sound a bit much but you are showing symptoms of "Hoarding".

-Original Poster-
I am so glad I'm not alone :)

I am the exactly the same way!!! Like one time I was putting my lil bros stuffed animal in his closet for him then I thought to myself I should put another one in there so he will have company!! It is weird but it shows that we care!!

Don't feel sad for the trash, feel sad for the planet.

Yep! I'm a nurse, when I do a drug round I feel bad if I drop a tablet on the floor, I put it to one side, and if by the end of the drug round I haven't dropped another I will get one out of the blister pack and throw them away together!! So glad I'm not the only one!!

When I was a kid I couldn't pick Just one stuffed animal to sleep with because I didn't want to hurt the others feelings. Glad I'm not the only one with this kind of problem.

I am exactly the same, sometimes I will go rescue the thing I threw out. mainly its things that were given to me and I see it thrown away, I get upset. Its normal, you're just a kind person with so much kindness it reaches things big and small, animate and inanimate. :)

Yea most people are more concerned for the environment they're polluting than the garbage they're polluting it with

I've felt the same as well for years. When I was younger I used to climb onto the roof of our house and throw paper planes with congratulatory messages towards the church where people were getting married. On one occasion, one of the paper planes took a different course and ended up in the road.
I cried as I watched it get run over by cars and pushed into the curb, and my mother wouldn't let me go and get it. I still feel incredible loss at the thought of leaving a stone that I've been kicking along on a walk as well.

I feel sad for the trash if I don't get to play with it before it gets thrown out!

me to tats why my room looks like it is lol

yep 0-0

(Poster of this Question is me)
Yay I am glad I am not the only one in the world who thinks this :)

My mom has said I even did this as a little little kid. (Im 18 now)
Well keep the replies coming, make me feel even more normal!!

Ya it normal I'm like that maybe a little less extrem but like one time my mom got ride of a blenderand we had the blender like my whole life i was like 6 but anyway I was so upset

omg, where have you been - my soul mate!!

I think EXACTLY THE SAME!!!

OMG LAWL dude I had this freaking problem... I would drop something then think about it... and get all sad then id go pick it up and throw it away. Whoa and I thought I use to be crazy... I still kinda feel like that sometimes.

Maybe that "trash" will be happier out there. It may make friends with a rock or something...

i dont necessarily feel bad about the trash, but i do feel a pang of guilt when i throw something away because either myself or someone else has paid for it...i feel extra guilty when i throw something out that someone else has paid for.

yeah. it's kind of weird. i feel that way about living things that are alone.
BUT NOT TRASH!
lol
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yeah im a little embarassed to say this but it happened to me too when i was 12 i even put a blanket to a robot ihad and the next day my mother saw this and she understood and i was like :i threw it there just randomly.oh i was so embarassed!

I was like that til when I was 13 or so haha.

omg i feel that way too sometimes!! especially my pillows.... i never want to leave them all by themselves so they have little stuffed animals accompanying them =D and my sis also does that, i guess it runs in the family :s

Same problem, but I finally asked a doctor and it's a part of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

I FEEL THAT WAY. but only about some stuff. idk, like if its something that must have had sentimental value for someone or me, i feel bad.

or if i want to recycle something, and i can't i feel bad for the thing that won't be recycled because it cant live longer or something. but it's mostly for joke's sake. hahaha

I don't feel that way. But what I think is weird is the fact that I can understand why you feel that way.

"Toy story" messed with my emotions for a long time. And pocahantis (sp?) were she says every rock and tree has a soul. Honestly I feel that there is energy in everything.

Im starting to get over the habit (sorta... not really)...
I tell myself, "It doesnt have feelings" and ill throw it out but now Im feeling bad for saying something doesnt have feelings and throwing it out... Im a weird guy. (Im the writer of the IIN)

I do that with most things except clothes for some reason. I'll leave my trash can empty for a week until I accumulate trash to be thrown away together!

I totally used to do this as a kid--feel guilty about throwing something away, almost anything--like I was being cruel, in rejecting it, and letting it go out alone, to a filthy trash dump, or a landfill.

It didn't matter that I KNEW trash didn't have feelings... I still felt bad.

I'm mostly well past that these days--though I still feel bad throwing out things I've had for a long time. When it bugs me, I suppose I think of all the good times my trash will have with the other trash at the dump. It's good times, guy: Good timmes!

Why don't you just throw 2 things away at a time, or... In your house, when you're throwing the trash out, take 2 trash items from the first bag, and put them in the new bag? Bada bing, problem solved.

i think that too. when i see trash in my yard, i feel bad for it. then if someone says im throwing this trash out, i think the trash will be sad if it isnt used or something.

I googled this cause I do the same and that's how I got to this page lol. It feels good to know I'm not the only one xD It's not all about trash though; I feel the same way with any inanimate object in general. If I see my sister's stuffed animals, I'll leave them all together, so they don't feel bad or with my clothes, shoes, etc =P

i feel the same way about chucking out poor helpless wrappers :( srsly.

oh my gosh, i feel EXACTLEY the same! i'm so glad i'm not the only one! i'd say this is not normal. we're just weird, but caring people:)

Hahaha! That's cute. :)

I feel that way about the rubbish I throw away. I put all my rubbish in a plastic bag that lines the bin and when it is full I tie up the bag and toss it into the main bin outside ready for collection day.
My mother says just to empty the rubbish into the main bin without the bag so I can use the bag again but I can't do that. I put all the rubbish in my bin and I feel while it's all in there they got to know each other and become friends so if I emptied it all into the main bin they would all be separated and become lonely.
It's insane I know but I can't help feeling that way.

If trash had life in them, I can imagine them screaming ill words at me for dumping them in a dark room with a dirty trash can.

The only thing that makes me sad about throwing stuff away is contributing to all the waste in landfills

lol I do that too sometimes =.=

ahahahaha

I know how you feel... though I still throw it out, lol.

I would NOT want to go round you house lol... no seriously I used to get that all the time but more with teddy bears and stuff

OMG I HAVE THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM!!!!!

I'm a bit the same way.

Yeah, I'm a bit like that too, only not to that extent anymore haha. I totally know where you're coming from.

I would never throw gum out of the window for another reason entirely though - gum on the floor is disgusting. I don't even chew gum, so I won't face such a dilemma, I suppose.