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What Country People Do For FunThe government and eco-freaks always try to get people to recycle their trash. Well, if you want people to recycle--you got to hit them (or reward them) where it hurts (or helps)--their pocketbooks.
When we lived in the city, our garbage was collected once weekly. We were furnished by the city with a huge trash bin that only needed to be pushed out to the curb once weekly for pickup. My son thought that was a real chore.The trash and water bill were combined and only amounted to around $20 a month.
When we moved to the country, we found out that things are different in the trash business. First of all, we had to furnish our own trash cans. Trash was picked up at the road. That meant that we had to carry/drag/push the trash cans down our (now much longer) driveway to the road each week. Our son sooned learned the real meaning of "work". I felt sorry for him and exchanged our non-rolling cans for ones with wheels. But get this, trash pickup cost a whoppin' 35 bucks a month!
But sometimes we (he) forgot. In the country you can't look out and see all your neighbors trash cans lined up on the street to remind you that it is trash day. So we forgot. And sometimes we forgot twice in a row! That was bad.
In trying to find ways to cut corners, (since we missed about every other week of trash pickup) I decided to see what it would cost to take the trash to the dump by ourselves.
First of all, we had this old horse trailer that we didn't use much. (Apparently a lot of people in the country have the same idea. The gal at the dump the other day said she'd seen a LOT of old horse trailers that day .) Well, we put all our trash on one side, and all our recycle-ables in the other side. We hooked up the old horse trailer to our old beat-up Suburban and hauled it to the dump.
The man at the dump, upon seeing all our trash, was about to charge us big bucks for the whole trailer full. But when he found out that HALF of it was recycle-able stuff, he smiled and only charged us $6.50. (For a whole month's worth!). Then we pulled up to the recycling spot and deposited all our trash bags of sorted stuff into the proper bins. We came away with a receipt for $4. Voila! We've only spent a couple of bucks on the trash! What a deal!!!
After recyling, we dumped our trash and scooted outta there. I mean, the smell is bad sometimes. We washed our hands at the Happy Burger restroom and treated ourselves to a soda or ice cream. You wondered what people in the country do for dates, did you? Well now you know!
8:36 AM - Feb. 1, 2006 - post comment
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