r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 10h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/Few-Alarm3436 10h ago

People suuuuuck!

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u/Little-Wonder-5037 10h ago

Honestly, sometimes the sheer amount of unnecessary waste at festivals really does make you lose faith in people. 😭

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u/sugrqbez 10h ago

If you sort through it and try to clean stuff up afterwards you usually find some good things people leave behind.

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u/CableTVOfficial 9h ago

We went to bonnaroo in 24 when it got canceled from the flooding and we scooped up about 1k worth of rugs alone that just needed to be cleaned. 3 big ass area rugs and a couple smaller ones a hammock with stand, as well as just random camping gear chairs, canopies

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u/Aggravating-Alarm-16 9h ago

I've got to say, the blue rug really tied the room together

https://giphy.com/gifs/Phn9GxCnG7agJyAcxl

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u/CableTVOfficial 7h ago

I tied 4 rooms together on that trip
https://giphy.com/gifs/aNTmc4keX4Fva

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u/Bonitabanana 9h ago

Heck yes. Rugs are costly but not always easy to clean.
Well done for that effort!

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u/whitelines4president 10h ago

I used to do this after Werchter, a big festival in Belgium. Always came home with a trunk full of alcohol.

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u/Dumbwaiter819 4h ago

a massive reason why I don't drink anymore is because of the cost. I just could not afford to buy alcohol on top of my grocery budget

The idea of people just leaving alcohol behind like it's not worth keeping (unopened as you clarified in a follow-up) is just downright infuriating

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u/Laurier-Henri 9h ago

But gross - don’t want to drink a bottle someone else’s sucked .

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u/whitelines4president 9h ago

They are closed bottles or cans ofcourse. And the neet thing is, you can clean them.

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u/glassskyline 10h ago

Volunteering to dig through festival trash for cheap loot is wild

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u/sugrqbez 10h ago

It’s not cheap usually. People drop pretty valuable shit when they’re drunk.

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u/eloquent8 9h ago

I worked on a festival bin team this summer and someone found an arcteryx jacket, £600 new online

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u/tfhermobwoayway 9h ago

Never seen a hiking trail, I bet.

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u/eloquent8 9h ago

The bit that did make me slightly sad for the original owner is he'd sharpied his name into the collar lol (we found the jacket after the punters had left)

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u/redwildflowermeadow 6h ago

I'm sorry, what does punter mean? I've heard it in UK tv shows for a while and I'm realizing now I don't actually know what it means.

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u/eloquent8 6h ago

Thats alright! UK slang can get a bit out of hand lol.

I'd say it's a word for customer, but mostly used in the context of a pub. I can't fully explain why but punter makes me think "customer who buys alcohol" lol so it works for the ticket holders at a festival. I think it's a bit of an old word, I wouldn't use it at a supermarket but at a local market I might?

I didn't Google for this I just over thought it and you've ended up with a right paragraph lol but I hope its useful!

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u/redwildflowermeadow 5h ago

Ah, thanks! I think I'd heard it in a detective show maybe referencing some older guys in a pub and I guess I assumed it meant retirees (pensioners for you?) so that was a terrible guess on my part.

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u/eloquent8 4h ago

Haha that's not a bad assumption given the context! I don't know if we have slang for pensioners, they get called OAPs (old age pensioners) but I can't think of any more odd the top of my head...

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u/Few-Cheesecake5175 9h ago

The irony is that some of that stuff is probably worth more than the effort required to take it home

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u/cheezy_dreams88 8h ago

It’s not cheap dude. I havent done it in years, but i volunteered a couple times back in 00s and you would find so much stuff. Jewelry, cash, unopened bottles of alcohol, cases of beers, drugs, cell phones, chargers, found a brand new in box iPad my last year volunteering cleanup. Coolers, camping stuff galore, shoes, clothes. Almost anything you can think of really. And as a poor 21 year old, it was awesome. Sell the clothes at second hand stores for credit, keep camping stuff I could use, stock my bar up for months, and usually went home with a couple hundred in cash found in tent.

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u/Most_Structure9568 7h ago

Yes but most of this shit goes to landfills

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u/Cheese-Manipulator 51m ago

I bet the metal detector people are lined up to scan the place.