re: People Stealing your Garbage

You know what they say, one man's garbage is another man's good ungarbage

You can learn a lot about a mans identity from his garbage.

the recycle guys took two of them to empty my can last week because it was full of wine and beer bottles. I felt bad because I was on the driveway when they did it. Dude looked at me and said "you need to get a liquor license."

Had a large live ficus tree in a plastic pot. Dog backed up and shite in it. A few days later I noticed it was full of ants. Took the dolly and put by the road. Halfway back up the driveway I heard a car stop. I looked and a dude was wedging it into the back doors of his old Camry. I turned around to tell him it was full of ants and dog shite but he just started laughing at me and dove in and drove off.

An hour later I saw the tree in the middle of Albertsons parking lot.

I see it as recycling. People look for scrap metals, an old extension cord can be worth a few bucks. A lot of them rack up on steel. I for one can't stand dealing with scrap yard workers. It's not worth the time. I once brought nine old dryers and got $27 in scrap. But to others it's good easy cash.

At my previous house I could set some junk out at the road and it would be gone in a matter of hours. I guess since it was on the river people rode thru those neighborhoods daily looking for good shite. Even though I'm poor they still would pick up anything I set out with the quickness.

They especially went after scrap metal, old grills, furniture (yuck) and shite like that.


Oh and when we tore the old boathouse down and hauled the rotten lumber to the road it was gone in the same day.

I should have put a sign up saying free lumber down by the lake so I wouldn't have had to haul it up to the road.

They didn't go thru the can, to my knowledge, but anything I thought they would pick up I just set out beside the road to make it easier on them.

When we moved the garbage can was filled way past the top and there were several boxes, a lazy boy and old couch and some other shite they must have thought they hit the jackpot then. I always get a kick out of seeing how fast it would go.

I live at the end of a dead end road now so I don't have that happen. I set s grill out at my new house and it never got picked up until I hauled it off.

A cpl weeks ago I took the trash out the morning before the truck ran and my garbage bags in the can looked like they had been torn open. I throw a lot of cans away so maybe someone was just looking for cans, but it kinda made me paranoid that the cops or someone looking for personal info had been in there. Hopefully it was just an animal or someone looking for cans, but I don't know that an animal could open one of those big plastic garbage cans waste mgmt provides without the lid closing and trapping it.

That was a little unsettling.

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How does a toddler seat expire?

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Most car seats have a 5 year expiration date. If you ever pull back the cover, it's basically styrofoam on plastic. That stuff breaks down over time.

My wife will cut the straps out of the car seats before we put them on the curb if they are more than 5 years old (just did this about a week ago).

To the OP, I think there is a difference between digging through a trash can, which is gross and weird, and simply picking up discarded items on the side of the curb.

For example, Sat night i was cleaning out the garage and put a bunch of stuff on the curb. I wasn't even finished in the garage and people were pulling up and taking stuff. If it helps them out, great.

Dude your about to go to jail! It's the feds

Lotta first world problems up in here.