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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on Oct 16, 2008 16:01:58 GMT -5
Two weeks ago,I called my oil company about my lack of heat. I knew it was the oil burner, it didn't work well last winter. They decided I needed a new one and gave it to me free since I would remain their customer for the rest of eternity. They came and installed it but left behind two big cardboard boxes and a wooden pallet frame. I tore the boxes into recycleable size pieces of cardboard but had the wooden pallet and about eight or nine big pieces of lumber left over. Sunday night I took the pallet for a ride, left it in front of a supermarket at 4 am. Today I took the wood pieces to another store and put them in the dumpster behind the store. I know what I did was wrong/illegal/littering, but I'm glad I'm rid of that stuff. Let's keep it a secret, okay?
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Post by Blackswan on Oct 16, 2008 18:13:56 GMT -5
Don't you hate stuff that you know needs to be thrown away, but you just don't know how to do it?
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Post by syzygy on Oct 16, 2008 19:48:45 GMT -5
I was about to reply to your post when I realized I hadn't brought my garbage out and I had a big packing box in the middle of my living room!
Thanks for the reminder!
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Post by heylady1 on Oct 16, 2008 20:31:53 GMT -5
I don't blame you one little bit for doing that!! You really had no choice....
.....but I have to say that I am glad I live where I live. Our trash men pick up everything. And I do mean everything that is left out at the curb. I had part of an old entertainment center and they took that. The neighbor had a mattress out there. They took that too. They even took all the kitchen cabinets that another neighbor had set out.
It would be nice if more communities would do that. Even if they only did it once a month or something, it would be nice.
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Post by Little_Ninja on Oct 16, 2008 20:33:41 GMT -5
Has anyone ever tried to throw away a mop or a broom? My city garbage workers refuse to pick up long-poled-wooden handles and just leave them by the curb when I try to throw them out. What do I do? A couple of times, I've taken the mops & brooms to the big trash dumpster at the nearby elementary school (by d'light of d'moon! , of course!). I'm a bad, bad, Ninja! Ten lashes with a wet noodle for me! Your secret is safe with me! Little_Ninja
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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on Oct 16, 2008 20:59:00 GMT -5
Thanks for not condeming me,ladies. My town has garbage pickup twice a week, but they are picky. I once put a color TV at the curb on Sunday night and the garbagemen took it away. I put a toy plastic horse in the trash and they fished it out and threw it on my driveway. Now I try to put everything in black trash bags and into the can. And once I needed to throw out my garbage can. It was an old aluminum can, all dented from being run into by cars and trucks. I live on a fairly busy street. I put it out , full of garbage, with a note "Please take can away" and they did. With the black bags, they can't see it and don't take things out. But that pallet was a problem. I'm glad it's gone. By the way,I went shopping at both stores since my drop-offs and the stuff has doisappeared, apparently taken away by their maintenance crews.
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Post by Mystic Pegasus on Oct 17, 2008 0:03:53 GMT -5
We actually find pallets quite useful and have collected them ourselves when people have left them out to be taken. We use them in our shed to keep boxes, and even some furniture, up off ground level so that if water runs in things don't get wet. Also, insects are a little less likely to make their way into them.
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Post by morningglory on Oct 17, 2008 8:24:02 GMT -5
Yeah, for the brooms I would definitely just break or cut them in half and put them into a garbage bag. Ans as for YOU, Fluffernut--if this is among the *worst* things you have done, you will be smiling on Judgement Day!
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Post by shabbychic on Oct 17, 2008 12:53:28 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my father once got rid of an old sofa, over several months, by disassembling it and putting a little bit of it in the trash each week (well wrapped of course).
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Post by Alexandra on Oct 17, 2008 16:19:28 GMT -5
Around here they won't pick up furniture early in the morning...later that day they send a bigger truck through and pick up the bigger stuff.
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Post by 60isolderthanithot on Oct 17, 2008 16:57:26 GMT -5
My area has a strict limit on what is allowed in the city garbage cans. I've had to pay a lot of money in the past to throw away things like ratty chairs and broken down ladders. It cost something like $30 to throw away a bunch of newspapers. I think charging like that promotes squalor. You are also prohibited from burning it up.
I bought a cheap firepit and wait until late at night, then get rid of anything that burns. I don't have a fireplace but I smell other people burning theirs. I have run out of money and I'm starting to cut things up and spread them into various neighbor's cans. I can't afford to use the city dump, not even the half-load price. I can't spend money on gas either. The worst was when I had to get rid of a king size mattress. I finally gave up and threw it behind the parking lot at a Salvation Army. I was ashamed of myself but I can't afford to pay $60 to get rid of a mattress. I slept on the floor after that.
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Post by Little_Ninja on Oct 17, 2008 18:25:21 GMT -5
Edited to add: Little Ninja, my neighbors tried to throw out a broom awhile back. It stuck out of the trash can. The guys took it out and threw it on the ground and left it when they took the trash. She finally had her husband break the thing in half to get rid of it the following week.Margarita Yep, breaking it up and bagging it is a great way to disguise it. I now have a handy-dandy hacksaw that I'm going to use to cut down future mop and broom handles. Little_Ninja
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Post by crazycatlady on Oct 18, 2008 21:29:20 GMT -5
I have to pay for trash pick-up because I live in the country. But the plus is that we can put out ANYTHING, so long as we call and let them know. Sure it costs a little extra when the next bill comes, but we have thrown away a giant over-stuffed chair and loveseat! I think that it certainly contributes to squalor to have limits to the amount of trash that can go out.
Maybe someday someone will make a mint by offering extra garbage pick up....come to the door and get things like mattresses or an overabundance of garbage bags without having to hire a dumpster!
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