Sanitation Workers

In our county, we only have trash pick-up one day a week and recycling one day. Recycling is not required, thank goodness!! At my mom's in Connecticut, the recycling/garbage pick-up people have a thing going where they put these HUGE orange stickers on your cans if you recycle something that isn't clean or correct and a HUGE orange sticker if you throw away something recyclable. It's outrageous!

Here, there are some fairly strict guidelines about how to recycle, such as the exact measurements that you need to cut cardboard before it will be picked up. The recycle guys are so picky about the kinds of bags you use, the size of items that it is just way too tempting to forget it and throw it away, especially if your garbage men are PHENOMENAL about taking just about anything. There has been almost nothing left behind by these amazing guys.

So, as you may have already read, we had a little sewage backup last night and had to dispose of some pretty stinky boxes. In fact, in our basement T had been collecting, for about 4 years, boxes in a large treadmill box in our basement. Don't ask me why - I've wanted it out of that basement for years. Instead, he's always complaining to me about my junk!! Anyway, last night he finally got that box out the door, and out to the curb. I noticed it as I was running to my neighbor's house to use their bathroom and my thought was, "They'll NEVER take that! It stinks, it's too big and by morning, it will be not only saturated with sewage but with rain!"

Well, this morning proved me wrong. It was gone, along with the extra bags of garbage and about 6 other boxes we left out by the curb, wreaking of sewage. I'm actually embarrassed! I don't think we realize how lucky we are, and we certainly don't thank those guys enough. Maybe next week we can think of some way to thank them - hmmm.... at about 6 am! EEK! But it'll be worth it!