Yesterday morning was not garbage day after all. I realized this Tuesday night after I had all the garbage bagged and the recycling sorted and in bins. I was getting ready to drag it to the end of the driveway when I saw the lack of garbage at the end of other driveways.
"Oh, yeah, that's right. Holiday."
So it sat up by the door until last night. Now it's out with all the others.
Looking out the window I can't help but notice what I noticed yesterday while walking down to the 7-11 with Jareth (Garbage day is one day sooner at that end of the neighborhood).
Our garbage generally all fits in one white kitchen garbage bag, except on weeks that Nora's litter box gets emptied and refilled. Add to that two bins of recycling (paper, and plastic/aluminum).
And then there's the rest of the neighborhood. Three to four heavy (often wheeled) garbage cans is pretty much the average.
If I fill half a can, and they have 3–4, then they're generating 6–8 times as much garbage as we are. Two adults plus one infant (1/2?) times just six is worth, what, a family of 15? Am I wrong to wonder what people are doing, or should I just feel like I'm doing something right?
In other news, I've made some fixes to my site template. For one thing, there's now a list of categories in the sidebar. That also illustrates that I haven't been labeling categories very well. More for the to-do list.
hey! missed ur birthday!
Happy Birthday!!!!!
What did you wish for that you dun have yet??
Posted by: jennir at September 10, 2004 10:49 AM