[TANGO-L] lost and found disposal and recycling

[Yale Tango Club <yaletangoclub @yahoo.com>]

Hey everybody

I don't know about you but occasionally after the dust of the milonga clears and the last guest has stumbled out the door, what you are sometimes left with is an abandoned pair of shoes.

Often tango shoes, sometimes street shoes. Also T-shirts, sweaters, rain jackets, umbrellas, scarves.

So you keep the items in the car trunk, bring them and put them by the door or the DJ the next few weeks, maybe send out an email.

Often the shoes are collected but sometimes not. And your trunk just gets fuller and fuller with Lost and Found Stuff.

What do you do with this stuff. After a while you can't keep schlepping it all the time.

Some of these items are effectively abandoned and people will never ever come get them. Funny, don't they miss their shoes?

At what point does one "dispose" of these items? Is there a statute of limitations?

More importantly, which ethical ways are there to "dispose" of tango shoes?
-trash
-basement
-Salvation army (?)
or is it OK to recycle them:
-organizer and his/her very special friends get to wear them if they fit
-organizer can hand them to beginners on a budget until they can invest in their own tango shoes
-sell them in a silent auction and use the money toward some worthy cause or at least a fun one
-ship them to the other side of the country to recycle them there, to avoid embarassing reunions with former owners.
-???

What do you think?

Tine



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