Do you have yearly large trash pick up where you live?

[AlCzervik]

well we do, once a year you put the big stuff out, old appliances, water heaters pretty much everything you can't chuck out in regular trash. I put my stuff out today, very neatly and organized so the people that come by looking for things can get to whatever it is they want, usually by the time the waste management company does the pick up there isn't much left.

Ok so a guy in a pickup stops at my neatly arranged pile and see's a weight bench that i took apart carefully and i bagged up the the nuts and bolts and the small wrench that came with it, he see's me "Excuse are there weights that come with this?" like i'm selling it "Well there are but i'm not getting rid of them, i just don't need the bench anymore" "Oh, thats too bad" yeah for you, the fing bench is free, hardware and directions included, "How about this ceiling fan, does it have a remote?" "No, it doesn't" "Oh thats too bad" seriously "these patio chairs, do you have the cushions?" "No sorry, they didn't hold up well so threw i them away, you can buy cushions for them fairly cheaply though" "I'd rather find them for free" sheesh me too pal. "So is this all you have??" "Yup, thats the whole lot" "thats too bad".

It's free people, be happy with what you can find.

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. Our city does that on a weekly basis.

:hi: It falls in the category of "bulk trash pickup", and it's on a weekly ongoing basis. I take my fitness walks in our neighborhood, and on the evening before trash day, there's a lot of stuff at the curb. Most of the big stuff is gone by the next morning. It's the sign that the trash vultures have swooped down. :rofl: :)

[AlCzervik]

2. there were 2 women out last night at 11:30pm, i went for a smoke when i saw them.

"Ok does this bother" "Nope, please take it all, i'm sure my neighbor will glad to see it gone" i've seen them out that late, they were hilarious, looked like a Mom and a daughter and they had a flashlight.

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. LOL!

:hi: :rofl: One morning about 6 AM I had to leave for a business trip. There was a guy in an old beat-up pickup truck looking through all the "treasures" in the neighborhood. His big prize: an ancient twin mattress and box springs that we had thrown to the curb. :rofl: My mother had given us that twin bed for our guest room several years ago. I hated to tell him that the twin bed was mine when I was a kid and that it was about 35 years old. :rofl:

[taterguy]

3. Our TV got attacked by a guy with an axe last week

I put out an old TV that still kinda sorta works. I went out to run errands and my wife stayed home. She said a guy pulled up in an old pick-up truck with several kids. He had an axe and chopped off the cord. Then he smashed the back of the TV and pulled out the wires. Apparently scrap copper pays pretty good. My wife wasn't too thrilled that some loon was swinging an axe in front of our house and I'm sure the city crews didn't appreciate the broken glass he left behind. The neighbors called the cops and I hope they explained to him how uncool that was.

[AlCzervik]

10. i don't blame her, that would have freaked me out big time. I took my daughter out

for thai food earlier and when i got back my neighbor told 2 vans were almost racing down the street to get the old hoover that was in my pile.

[Nicole]

4. Yes we do.

I'm laughing at your story because it sounds so familiar. I swear they have the terms yard sale & trash confused. :rofl:

I've had people actually ring my doorbell to ask about stuff at the curb! Do you have the other parts, pieces, manual, etc.? No, if I did I would either sell the item or donate it to Goodwill. It's called trash for a reason.

My best one was the day I was working in the front flower beds. A young lady who picked up some flower pots asked me if I could give her some plants to fill them! After I got over the shock, I thought why not. I was already out there thinning some plants anyway so I was happy to share with her. I had some nice clumps of perennials already dug up & offered them to her. No, I don't want those, I want the ones over there & she pointed to the few annuals I had just planted as filler until the perennials bloom. :wtf:

[AlCzervik]

8. omg that is hilarious and so ballsy, do you want me to bubble wrap and deliver

it as well his nibs estate? The guy was actually peering around me and into my garage, no dude all that stuff is staying including the cars, he commented on my husbands tool box, he's not really into material stuff but his parents bought him a really nice snap on tools 25th anniversary shop tool box and all the tools that go with it including things that work of an air compressor, every time we've moved the first question is not about my daughter and i it's "Is my tool box there, is it ok, did you check out hon?"

[KitchenWitch]

5. Back when we lived in Minnesota they had that in our community

We would sit in lawn chairs out in the front yard watching all the trucks and trailers go by.

Good times.

[TK421]

7. What don't they understand about the word "free"?

Does it need further explanation? Is there a bargaining chip required in this process of trash pick-up? Jesus-H-Christ it's FUCKING TRASH FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!!!!! It's not a damn garage sale, but TOO BAD BUDDY!!

[AlCzervik]

9. d00d next year will you come to my house to be the official-"Fuck off" to the vultures

for me? i will supply you with all the rum and coke you can drink.
:D

[TK421]

11. HA HA....I'll do it for no re-payment, my friend....I take pleasure in this stuff

no payment necessary....oh, wait....you did say you would supply me with all the rum and coke I want? Could you substitute that with beer? If so, you got yourself a deal :D

[AlCzervik]

12. beer--you bet!

:toast:

[Blue Diadem]

13. Oh yeah, we have an annual one. Just had it a couple weeks ago

Nothing lasts overnight.

I can understand the junkers getting the scrap metals and appliances. It's really a service because it'll get recycled instead of taken to the landfill. What I can't understand are the people who will open up regular garbage cans, garbage bags etc and go through them looking to see if anything "good" is in there. We always try to separate it, stuff for annual pickup on one side and taking the regular garbage out the morning of and placing it on the other side of our lot.

[lost-in-nj]

14. We have to make

an appointment for them to pick up appliances, the town does this
We have "toxic waste day" twice a year that includes paint, propane tanks things like that...
And the first 2 pickups of the month you can throw out furniture and the such..



lost

[SPKrazy]

15. At least yearly if not quarterly

it is more than once a year though

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

16. update--there is a carvan of them now, i put out 22 window blinds and they snapped them all up

lawn chairs still there, i have never seen so many people at once picking the piles.