It might be the grooviest new holiday since Burning Man: Hippie Christmas is the annual festivity surrounding the end of the college school year, when students leave perfectly good clothing and household goods by the curb or the dumpster because they don’t want to schlep it all back home. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Hippie Christmas”
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A term that was new to me, you probably know it, Grant, is hippie Christmas.
What is that?
This is a term for when college students are moving out of their apartments, you know, and there’s all this great stuff.
They just leave it by the curb or the dumpster, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Because they don’t want to haul it home.
Right. Perfectly good clothing and perfectly good furniture.
Furniture, yeah.
Toaster ovens and hot plates and chairs.
Yeah.
There are places like in Madison, Wisconsin, and in Arcata, California.
They fall on different dates, but it’s when there’s this turnover of people leaving their apartments.
And so you know if you just go down the street with your pickup, you’re going to find some good deals.
Some real good stuff.
Hippie Christmas.
Hippie Christmas.
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