r/Wellthatsucks 10h ago

Reading festival 2026

14.0k Upvotes

2.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4.1k

u/Adventurous_Emotion9 10h ago

There’s a belief that the tents left behind are taken by charities and given to homeless or those who need them. This has been debunked by organisers time and time again as not being true.

1.8k

u/Ancient-Emu-8293 9h ago

Would be pretty convenient to pretend believing that.

610

u/aardvarkbjones 9h ago

Is it? Tents cost money. 

Seems insanely wasteful, both environmentally and fiscally.

1

u/Not_an_okama 5h ago

Last tent i bought was under $30 and lasted me about 4 years until i was too lazy to flod it back up and it got moldy. Thats probably the cost of like 2 beers and a hot dog at the festival.

Not that i condone littering, just pointing out that you can get tents for cheap. Im of the belief that you should leave your camp site looking like no one was there, but most of my camping has been in the backwoods and we were probably trespassing at many of these sites now that i think about it.