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The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread
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donaldtoo
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I save them to my iPhone photo album and then “Attach files”, “Photo Library” to my post…works every time…!!!
MinnieM123
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This reminded me of when I was a kid. The town I lived in had two separate pickups each week -- there was a regular trash pickup (my dad put the barrels out on the sidewalk for them). Then, there was the backyard (in-ground metal barrel, with a handle to lift it out) that the workers would go on property to get, and then dump out the contents into the garbage truck. I think that service stopped when I was a teen.
Now, I assume in most communities around here, people just have one pickup of trash, but that includes garbage in the same barrels as the trash. None of this is under any private service -- it's just included in property taxes. (Since we only rent, I'm just guessing that's how it's billed, to the property owners.)
By the way, the only outdoor burning I recall as a kid, was in the fall when people burned leaves out in the street. After years of that, the town put a stop to that -- not because of the pollution, either. Rather, it was because when people across the street from one another burned big piles of leaves, the smoke could get so thick, that it would blind drivers. (There were a few car accidents due to this, so burning was banned.)
Goofyernmost
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That my be something that happens now but it wasn't a thing in most places outside of major cities back then. They may have provided a land fill but they didn't take it there and that was why it was burned in ones backyard. Lazy isn't a new thing.
In a good way it is one way of getting one's butt off the sofa watching the idiot box and do some work in the outdoors. Could be a chore of a teenager.
Goofyernmost
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I moved to Cary, NC when I was 63 years old and that was the first time I ever heard about municipal trash pickup and disposal provided in your property taxes consisting of that service, the trash containers and even fall leaf disposal with large vacuum trucks that cleaned then up at the curb side. If we had trash collection in Vermont it was paid for monthly (and still is) by anyone that hired them. No public stuff.
Santa Raccoon 77
Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
Figgy1
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ajrwdwgirl
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I remember going to the city dump on Saturday with my dad, it wasn't until it closed that we had garbage pick up at the end of our driveway. I know my parents paid for the service because I remember them talking about the new expense when the dump closed. My parents rarely talked about expenses in front of us so that's probably why I remember it. Although even though we lived in the city limits our property had a large field, forest, and swamp and I know that my dad would sometimes dispose of some of our items in the forest and field instead of having garbage service take them (sometimes they charged for extra beyond the 2 trash cans allotted for the week). I know many of my old toys, including my Barbie dreamhouse are out rotting in the field/forest, well maybe not rotting since it was mostly plastic.
John park hopper
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Still have a burn barrel for paper, kitchen scraps go in the compost bin, the rest goes to the dump, aluminum cans are crushed and bagged up for the scrap metal yard.