Our new 'carts' are here :-)

    Early this summer, the city we live in sent letters out to all of it's residents explaining that some changes were coming to it's curb side recycling program. They would be collecting every bodies plastic recycling totes and replacing them with lidded rolling carts. You can now just dump all of your recycling products in the new carts, with out sorting like products together. And instead of having to heave-ho the totes to the curb, you can roll the carts there. An added benefit, is that with the carts being lidded, the rain and flaky white stuff won't affect the paper recycling products.
    They had included a postcard in their notification letter, on which you were suppose to choose which of the three sizes of carts you wanted and mail it in by a certain date. Otherwise they would automatically be giving you one particular size.
    That cart arrived a couple of weeks ago. In the picture, it is the one with the yellow lid.

    I had often thought over the idea of getting a city trash cart as well. I was tired of keeping bags of trash in the house till trash day and working around them. If we put them in the garage, animals saw them as an invitation to romp. And we had learned years ago, that you do not put them out on the curb till the morning of trash collection day. Others in the neighborhood do with very little problems. But it never seemed to fail that if we attempted such, the end result was a huge mess.
    Needing to work around trash bags till trash collection day, became not only annoying, but also a good reason not to clean certain areas when they were in dire need of it. Or so the excuses were given.
     So, seeings how we were getting a rolling recycling cart, I decided that it was the perfect time to also get one for our trash. I looked into what sizes were available and their various costs.
     While we normally only have two kitchen size bags of trash a week, due in great part to how I believe in breaking things down, instead of paying for more bags, and more trash tags, etc., I ended up deciding to go with the largest sized rolling / lidded trash bin. And I prepaid for it for a year.
     Why? For one, I didn't want them jacking the price of it up after the first of the year, or something. And secondly, the large sized one better fit my goal - of sorting / cleaning /  emptying this house!!!
     I had ordered the trash bin, but it didn't arrive, and didn't arrive ... turned out the lady I had had contact with, via both phone and emails, had changed departments... and the person whom was head of the 'streets and sanitation dept.' was on vacation, a-n-d ... .  I will give the head of the dept. big credit - the very day she was due to report back from her vacation, a bin showed up out front!!! I was going to give her a couple days back before contacting her with yet another problem ...
     It has been made very clear to the inhabitants of this house, that I want the trash cart FULL each and every week!!!! There are also box's for "to donate" things to be put in. And each and every week they shall either be dropped off somewhere, or given to Kayla's mom to take to work with her, seeings how she works at a Goodwill store.
     The carts/bins are here, the donation box's are out - let the reclaiming of the house proceed!!!

p.s. - ALL of you, are both welcome and encouraged to get carts and donation box's (not literal ones, just empty box's from the store or work ...) for yourselves and join us in our goal. We can even form our own 'encouragement' club ;-p