Eighner (1991) said: “With the exception of jeans, all my clothes came from dumpsters. Boom boxes, candles, bedding, toilet paper, medicine, books, a typewriter, a virgin love doll, loose change that sometimes amounted to many dollars—I purchased many things from dumpsters” (p.6). The availability of these items could sustain a homeless person for an indefinite period of time. Many people may not realize that what they discard could actually be useful to someone experiencing homelessness, so public education should be considered to instruct them to donate more items. If a partnership could be established between local waste collection facilities and homeless shelters to help educate the public, more usable items could be donated rather than disposed of as trash. This could be a simple correspondence attached to the monthly bills of all residents of a