messymomma
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Post by messymomma on Nov 30, 2008 16:17:39 GMT -5
with trash day!!! Since I started undoing what I've done to our home, I look forward to it all week! Tuesday mornings can't come fast enough. Starting Sunday I de-clutter my lil butt off. I always have at least 5 big black bags of junk to set out. I clean out the old junk from the fridge, the floor of the pantry, I walk the house with garbage bag in hand and throw out all the stuff that's accumulated all week. There is just something about watching that garbage truck drive away with my trash that makes me feel...lighter...or free...just better! I know, I'm twisted  |
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Post by angelinahedgehog on Nov 30, 2008 16:35:42 GMT -5
In a different community, trash day was often referred to as 'magic day'. The magic men would come and take all this unwanted stuff away. It would just... vanish. Pfft!
Sounds pretty healthy to me, actually.
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Post by Platypus on Nov 30, 2008 16:35:48 GMT -5
Hmmm, hadn't tought of it before, but you are right. I just love the sound of that truck compacting my rubbish.  My Mum told me in her time bins were metal and emptied into the trucks by hand and the 'garbos' would sort all the glass bottles and metal into sacks to sell for a bit of extra money. So being a council garbage man (yep, they were always men) was a coveted unskilled occupation. At Christmas time householders put out a bottle of beer or something as presents for them. |
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Post by clearwaterush on Nov 30, 2008 18:05:55 GMT -5
Yes, I dump my junk in and thursday night take the trash can to the street for early friday morning pick-up. I begin to dump just as soon as I pull it off the street. I did notice that after this Saterday's trash pick-up (because of thanksgiving) I moved the trash can right by our front door. It's three-fouths full now(it's sunday afternoon) with two more rooms in the house to go! Whoopee when I get it done!
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Post by messymimi on Nov 30, 2008 18:38:24 GMT -5
I agree, trash day is a lovely thing, indeed. I am reminded of that every time someone talks about having to take stuff to the dump where they live.
I need to take more advantage of trash day around here.
messymimi
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Blackswan
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Post by Blackswan on Nov 30, 2008 18:51:04 GMT -5
I understand it! It feels so good to have all of those loads of junk taken away. I feel the same way when I donate to Salvation Army. There are all kinds of things out there that I feel guilty about donating, but when they do take it, I feel so much lighter too!
It's progress! Small trashcans worth of progress, being taken away to never be returned. Of course it feels good!
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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on Nov 30, 2008 19:42:15 GMT -5
I love trash day-in fact, I have two of them. Monday and Thursday I put out big black bags of stuff I can't use, don't want, doesan't work. Tonight I put out my broken sewing machine and broken vacuum. Tomorrow they'll be gone forever. . .
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Post by fluffychild on Nov 30, 2008 21:42:41 GMT -5
I try ito have out more bags than any of my neighbors. That is the competition factor in me. I did a drop today at Goodwill, and I have two bags of fleece throws set to go to a woman's shelter and two boxes of material to a church quilting circle. Right now I am working on two houses at once so I cannot see progress like I would like. If we have no snow, the stuff will be gone tomorrow.
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Post by limegreen on Dec 1, 2008 3:51:56 GMT -5
Trash day is a moveable feast round here as we have huge communal dumpsters and they are emptied twice a week allegedly, but sometimes less often, depending on the contractors. But it is quite nice to be able to dump stuff any time I like and be rid of it. And when the dumpsters are full, I and my neighbours watch for the lorry like hawks and jump out with bags to put in the empty dumpster. I do like the sound of my trash bag clanging on the bottom of the metal dumpster ( I know, simple pleasures for simple minds, ) |
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Post by Alexandra on Dec 1, 2008 11:42:00 GMT -5
Tuesday night we put our trash out on the curb. Good day to go through the refrigerator and get rid of any outdated stuff.
If there's milk or meat or whatever that's outdated, we leave it in the fridge until Tuesday. I *always* check dates before using ANYTHING, it's a habit/obsession of mine. I can also remember, throw whatever out on Tuesday.
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Post by mallery on Dec 1, 2008 19:58:23 GMT -5
So different here, in the country. I take my trash to the county landfill, 17 miles away.
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Post by dayeanu on Dec 1, 2008 21:48:16 GMT -5
I dread trash day. They come at 5 in the morning, and I have to have it in the bin, a half-mile away, the night before, or I'll never make it. Sometimes it is dark before I get around to hauling off the trash, and I hate to carry the bags across the busy highway in the dark, so I leave it in the back of my truck until the next week. Unfortunately, I carry off the trash for three households, so after I miss trash day for a couple of weeks, it gets pretty bad. I just moved here from a place where I had to haul my trash 24 miles, and that worked no better for me. I would set the bag outside, on the way to my truck, and then forget it, and some varmit would get in it and scatter it all over. Or it would rain and get full of water. Got so, the lady who ran the landfill would come out and inspect my garbage. Told me she could refuse it if it was too dirty. Pretty bad when one's garbage is rejected for being "too dirty."
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Post by gottaproblem on Dec 2, 2008 13:02:51 GMT -5
 My trash day is Wednesday and I try to have the can full, but sometimes I do not get around to it. Every other week is recycle so I try to fill that too. I have to get better because I also like to see the trash out of my house and on to the truck. 
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Post by Script on Dec 2, 2008 13:58:01 GMT -5
the other side of the OBSESSION coin:
Our city has mega-problems with garbage, so we are on very strict rules for bins (city-issued), recycling, composting, yard garbage. Believe it or not, I keep a FILE with garbage info. It is very complicated and difficult.
Today for the first morning there was a bit of ice. It was really HARD to get the bins open: frozen shut a bit. I dread the arrival of real winter and serious freezing.
PLUS: we are always almost up-to-the-limit for space in our recycling. I get into such a panic (OCD) about having enuff room on garbage day. We have biweekly pick ups: you would not believe how much RECYCLING we generate in 2 weeks. One daily newspaper. Many items in boxes. Some bottles.
PLUS: we have to sort out the wine bottles and bring them back to the beer store (yes, you read this correctly) to regain the deposit. This is complicated, heavy, messy and a pain in the ***.
I seriously do NOT know how
*seniors
*disabled
*sick people
*weak older women
*folks with limited storage inside and/or outside
*squalorees
are going to cope with the bins this our first winter with them.
DH tells me not to worry; more than once I have brought recycling to my mom's or to my brother's when we have toooo much. But I am agitated a LOT of weeks about garbage issues.
PS: we cannot keep our compost bin outside as the raccoons have figured out
*how to open them
*how to move the big wheelie bins
Our bin, therefore, has to be stored on our cellar staircase/landing then brought outside EARLY in the morning. It is hard for me to lift it UP and over the door step (heavy and bulky and I'M A TUFF OLD BIRD). Some companies are manufacturing wooden animal-proof cupboards for OUTSIDE for people to store the various bins. AAARRRGGGHHHH
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Post by puppybox on Dec 2, 2008 17:08:57 GMT -5
I hate taking out the trash and thought I was in a bad way when desqualoring in a semi tropical country where recycling was mandatory and garbage had to be put out in CLEAR bags so they could spot your illegally non recycled stuff and not acceot your bag of garbage.
BUT still better than having to go to the dump with no car!!!!! APPRECIATE GARBAGE DAY NOW!
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