No no, I didn't put my kids or my husband out on the curb, although some days..... :-) (I'm sure they want to do that with me as well)
With 2 new chairs in the house I was adamant that I would not ADD to the used up space in my house. DH said 'When I have a chance I will pack them up and haul them to the dump. That often takes months to happen and I wanted to get rid of them fast. Plus, it costs $$$ to add things like that to the landfill
I promptly hauled the two broken down chairs from my computer room out to the end of my driveway and wrote out 'Free to a good home' on a paper and stuck it to them. I had done this last year with a shelf and a couple 2 drawer filing cabinets and had success.
I resisted the urge to peek out between my blinds to see if they were gone like a reverse peeping Tom.
As I puttered about cleaning, I realized that I had another chair in the garage. It was one from my classroom I had bought several years ago. The hydrolic was gone on it. I am told you can replace those but I never could seem to find the right one to fit. With joyful glee I wheeled that bad boy out to the curb with his friends.
On a get rid of it rush, I searched the clutter in my 1 car garage and found a shelving unit we had bought for our tiny basement 2 piece bath about 6 years ago. We had diligently put it together than realized I had grossly overestimated how tiny the bathroom was and how massive the shelf was. You could be in the bathroom to pee or the shelf could be in there. And the shelf didn't seem willing to take turns.
Off it went to the end of the drive with a joyful plop and a 'never used/ I can't measure properly' sign on it.
Back I went to the laundry and went out to the backyard to hang clothes on the line. About a half hour later I took out a bag of garbage for a legitimate reason to check out the driveway.
Woot woot!! All four of my friends were gone, happily, off to a better life, and NOT in the landfill!
$$ saved.
Not Much Working Out Monday
3 hours ago
3 comments:
yay!!! buh bye!!!
GOod work... Has anyone picked them up yet?
I'm curious. It costs you to throw garbage out? Big ticket items here does not cost money although the weekly garbage does.
We're limited to one small bin of garbage every two weeks. (Recyling comes every week and compost every other week.) If you throw out more regular garbage then alloted, you have to pay.
As for our big ticket garbage... Even without signs, people usually pick up the garbage before the city workers come. (usually for parts or because they'd take it for themselves).
Yup they were gone that day Pear. We have a bin that gets picked up once a week but things like this wouldn't fit in it. In order to 'get rid' of it we would have to take it ourselves to the landfill. That's when a fee would be charged.
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