My husband is the garbage man...
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
October 26, 2015 12:41pm CST
When you live in the boonies you don't get free trash pick-up. You have two choices:
a) you pay for private collection, or
b) you take it to either the landfill or a convenient center
Depending on what county you live in you either get to drop it at the landfill for free, or you pay a small fee. When you take it to a convenient center you don't pay anything.
Our convenient center is a small building the operator uses as his little office and place to get warm in cold weather. There is a huge dumpster and a spare dumpster. It's not fancy, but I will warn you - it stinks to high heaven!
Our little county is far behind the times as the only thing we recycle is motor oil.
Since I don't drive, and if I did I wouldn't drive there, my husband dis the garbage man in the family.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
26 Oct 15
it was like this growing up, so we were careful about trash. Paper things got burned a field over with the park's burn barrels (dad was the park ranger), food was composted, and then we had a spot in the garage where trash would sit until he made a trash run. not fun
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
26 Oct 15
My husband won't burn, and I'm glad, the neighbor does and it stinks so bad.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
26 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill it shouldn't, sounds like he is burning plastic
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
26 Oct 15
Our taxes are low and we live int he country so we don't get services, not even street lights.
@jstory07 (148720)
• Roseburg, Oregon
26 Oct 15
For years we just took our trash to the apartment where my granddaughter lived until they moved last year. Now we have to pay a trash service. I never did get caught taking the trash there. but if I did she told me to tell them that it was her trash. 
@yukimori (10193)
• United States
26 Oct 15
When my mom first met her current husband, he refused to pay for trash service. He had a small can that he lined with grocery bags, and he'd take his bag of trash with him when he went grocery shopping so he could throw it away in one of the trash cans in the parking lot.
His property didn't have water, either, so he'd take his two 55-gallon barrels and fill them from a tap in the parking lot, too. To this day I'm still not sure whether or not that part of it was entirely legal. 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
26 Oct 15
@yukimori That is sorta against the law - someone should have reported him.
@yukimori (10193)
• United States
26 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill He's a textbook narcissist. He probably would have charmed his way out of it just like he does every time he gets pulled over for traffic violations.
Like I said, though, I'm not totally sure he didn't have an arrangement with the store to get water from them.
@valmnz (17095)
• New Zealand
26 Oct 15
It makes me grateful four our weekly rubbish collection and our weekly recycling collection of paper, plastic and glass. I drive our green garden waste to the green waste centre where I can dump it for a small fee. I think I know, but exactly what are the boonies?
@valmnz (17095)
• New Zealand
26 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill ah, thanks. Yes, I was thinking it would be what we call the back blocks.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
26 Oct 15
The boonies - the country!
The one good thing about taking our own- they are open 3 days a week so if we have something 'stinky' we can get rid of it and don't have to have it hanging around for a week. We paid for p/u at our previous home but it was running bout $60 a month and thats a lot of money for trash.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
27 Oct 15
Husbands always seem to get the dirty jobs but the the wives do so much more. We have garbage recycling and yard waste pick up so that is one job he doesn't have to do.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
27 Oct 15
My husband does a lot - he runs the vac, he cleans the toilets (I do the other area of bathroom), he picks up the dog poop, he takes care of the yard, the workshop, the garden, the pool, the car...
I play on the computer, do laundry......
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
27 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill My husband works full time outside the home, even though I work inside the home so I do the yard, garden, house cleaning. But he is very good with fixing things and building things so he does a lot of heavy duty renovations on the home, pool and other stuff on his days off which has saved us a lot. So I am happy to clean the toilets. He also cooks and does the laundry on alternate days. Aren't we lucky?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
26 Oct 15
We don't get a lot of things, like street lights either!
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
27 Oct 15
We have those who come and collect. But although I was instrumental to some extent to have this arrangement in place I use my wet and dry garbage to prepare compost for our garden. The solid waste is collected by these guys once there is enough for which we pay them something.
