Where to put that stinking bag of rubbish after a weekend at the coast house

Step1.: Find a spade and bury the prawn heads and fishbones. If that’s not possible (eg, you’re staying in a unit), then go to step2.

Step 2.: Find a recycling bin and drop all the cans, bottles, paper and cardboard.

Step 3.: Is there too much rubbish to take home? If so, take it all to the local tip. In the smaller coastal communities, this is just a skip you can chuck everything in.

Step 4.: If you’re taking it home, then remove anything particularly smelly (eg, the prawn heads and fishbones) and drop that off in a public bin somewhere on your way out of town. One plastic shopping-bag of rubbish is a small price they can pay for all the money you’ve spent at their cafe, fish&chip shop, petrol station and supermarket.

I am sitting here on my summer patio having my my faithful servant U-There; reading this aloud to me word for word to me in an accent not native to his ethnic background because he is only faithfull to 3 things: Allah, the Dollah and then me…………because that’s how I roll, you poor, godless bitches.

I would get him to speak louder but the voices of Hall and Oates keep harmoniously being the perfect soundtrack to this story:

You’re a rich girl, and you’ve gone too far, ‘Cause you know it don’t matter anyway
You can rely on the old man’s money, You can rely on the old man’s money
It’s a bitch girl but it’s gone too far, ‘Cause you know it don’t matter anyway
Say money but it won’t get you too far,
Get you too far

I do feel for you though, disposing of ones refuse is an onerous task at best and better handled by the flat heeled masses of the working class, I do not believe that I could handle such labourous waste based endeavours at my coastal abode, let alone my mountain bungalow.

I suppose that asking the huddled masses who haunt this site, those people in a poor country or area whom have very little money and very few possessions is a good idea as they could possibly use our cast off’s.

poetix said :

Neko said :

I do (b) but once forgot it was in my boot for two weeks. Not nice.

Your foot must have been smelly.

Bwahahahahaha….yes folks…I actually just Laughed Out Loud…:-)

poetix said :

Neko said :

I do (b) but once forgot it was in my boot for two weeks. Not nice.

Your foot must have been smelly.

And had a black soul Woden chugger style…

Neko said :

I do (b) but once forgot it was in my boot for two weeks. Not nice.

Your foot must have been smelly.

I do (b) but once forgot it was in my boot for two weeks. Not nice.

RedDogInCan said :

e) Stick it in the neighbours bin

f) Use the communal bin at a nearby block of units

g) Mail it to someone at random

h) distribute amongst those prepaid self addressed envelopes the banks send when they want to advertise for new credit cards or increase your credit limit. Not only do you get rid of your rubbish, but you return the favour to the banks.

How about the obvious answer, ask the owner of the house what they would like you to do with the rubbish.

For our place down the coast, we’d arranged with the neighbours who lived down there to bring the bins in after they’d been emptied. When we left we’d take the bins to the curb, and they’d bring in it over the week. Who’s to say your relo’s haven’t made similar arrangements with their neighbours.

and please do NOT pile it up in or around public or private bins in the towns you pass through on your way home. Some of us have to live there, and we don’t like paying extra rates for your rubbish to be cleaned up, especially after animals have got into it and spread it around.

I don’t get the daytrippers or weekenders who will happily take a slab of beer to their destination but won’t take the empties (and other waste packaging) home. It’s actually lighter when empty you know…

IP

I think my relatives just told the neighbours they could use the family bins if they would be kind enough to take care of the rubbish collection. It’s generally a pretty good relationship. Maybe your family can do your neighbours a favour in exchange for them returning your bins after the next collection (or whatever’s logical).