Why, yes the house has it’s own compost heap too…
…why do you ask?
Ok, we’ve reviewed to the point of nearing “beating the horse dead” about the joys that are this house. However, today, it isn’t the house itself as much as a by-product of the Snark State that we must deal with. You see there are rules here. Lots and lots of rules.
When we moved here, I would have never thought that the biggest rule I’d have to deal with would be the garbage rules. You see we have THREE bins. As my uncle said, “You don’t throw stuff away, you file it.” And surely we do. We have a yard waste can. In it we may only put organic waste from the yard. This is not to include dog poop — guess that isn’t organic enough for them. We have a recycle bin. Yup, it is for cans, glass, plastic, paper, and all the stuff to be re-used (yes, I do often wonder if this is the place for the used cloth diapers — but alas). You may use the recycle bin for cloth too. Then there is a garbage bin. It is for everything else; but not really. You may not dispose of batteries, paint, electronics, light bulbs or anything that may leak. Can anyone see where I might be going with this?
So, in a completely unrelated tale from the garbage filing, I had just had the Satelite TV dude here replacing our dish and one of the boxes — so that we could get better service (read local HD channels). Now, since we moved into Frankenhouse, I this will be the third dish we have had installed. THIRD. Does anyone want to know what happened to the old ones?
I see a trip to the dump in our future. Perhaps if I could just figure out what to do with all the garbage that we aren’t allowed to throw away –
August 14th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
For the longest time, I was hanging onto empty camping-sized propane containers because I didn’t know how to dispose of them. One day I went to my local hardware store to buy a new bottle of propane and I finally thought to ask the clerk what I should do with the empties. It turned out it was okay to put them out with the regular trash. D’oh! My garage shelves are so much tidier now…
August 14th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
OMG, you with the used cloth diapers.
You kill me!
August 14th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Well, see, in NC, if you can’t throw it away, you put it in your front yard at the street, and someone will take it. I guarantee it. It does not matter what it is, it will be taken (I would even make a bet on used diapers). We have a once per year “bulky item pickup” in which they make you put everything out at the street the weekend before they pick it up. You can put out almost anything big, or even just junk in general. We have put out wood trim, a broken desk and chair, a broken baby swing, drawers, you name it. I don’t think by the Tuesday of pickup week there has ever been anything left out at the street. People in pickups (yes, Rednecks, and lots of non-English speakers as well) roam the streets of that week’s designated neighborhoods, picking up anything not nailed down. I’m really not sure what they do with it. Even if it’s not pickup week, you can put anything at the corner, and that means it’s fair game! I haven’t made a trip to the dump in years.