Trash Day

[nekosensei]

Today is trash day in my town. Every year in late April, you can put as much trash on the curb as you want, and the city will come and take it away for free. This means that we also get an influx of garbage pickers. Hispanic people in rickety trucks drive up and down the street looking for scrap metal. Folks driving cars and minivans also cruise the neighborhoods looking for furniture, old toys, clothing, etc.

Since we both feel bad about throwing away things that can be reused, doomsey and I put out stuff that we know will get picked up. Before I got home, doomsey set out an old computer, and within ten minutes someone came by and claimed it. The weird thing is that another computer in better shape wasn't taken. doomsey pulled it back inside before it started to rain to see if maybe he could get someone at his work interested in it. Someone else in a truck took a cheap, plastic desk lamp I used back in college. Something really weird happened to our next-door neighbor though. Somebody. Took. His. Garbage. And by garbage, I mean paper, packaging, and table scraps that people usually set out at the curb every week. Ewwwww. Maybe they didn't understand the concept?

[Edit: And I forgot to mention that a green bouncy ball and a wicker basket got pulled out of the throw away pile because the cat liked them. Figures. She's batting at the one and using the other has a bed. By the way, did I mention that our cats were spoiled?]

Comments

[jlindquist.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the big spring-cleaning pickups. We got those twice a year in Northbrook, one again in the fall. Exactly the same pattern of freecycling. They don't do that out here.

[g0shawk.livejournal.com]

That's such a cool idea! I wonder if we have something like that...

Wow, a computer? Awesome.
Lol, how strange that someone took your neighbor's actual garbage.