A very mundane subject, but as the New Year progresses into spring most of my generation
were brought up on the "take it down on New Year's Day" as well as the "Spring Clean", never mind the daily, weekly or monthly one.
In our household we have been sorting,
re-distributing, giving away, taking to various charities or friends depending
upon the item for several months now.
First of all, one would think that we would
finally be seeing the end of it, but no: that which has been accumulated over a
lifetime (in younger son’s case) or the past 30+ years in this house in my
case, dwindles but never entirely disappears.
I no longer count the trips to the main
re-cycling center across town having made many with my older son when he moved,
then with the younger one, then myself and now yet again with all of us.
I usually have 3 or 4 full banana boxes of
paper once a month for curb-side pickup; make at least 3 or 4 trips to our
village recycling center with bottles, Pet containers (as in PET, not
containers for pets per se), batteries, paper, clothing to be turned into rags
and large cardboard boxes and yet have things to re-distribute.
Today I decided to meld two garbage bags
full of stuff and ended up sorting out the electronics, the beyond-sale-date
meds, paper and ink cartridges to be given away. I was still left with a full
garbage bag and will have to spend a couple of hours taking the electronic
parts, the old meds and the give-aways
to their destinations, but we do need to do our part so please people, don’t
take the easy way out and just dump it all in the trash – sort and
re-distribute: your world thanks you.
And I'm feeling productive!
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| paper, curbside pickup once a month |
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| electronics - re-cycler across town |
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| ink cartridges - printer no longer works: give to Salvation Army |
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| out of date meds and cosmetics, etc. - return to pharmacy |
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| 110 liter trash bag - pick up tomorrow! |
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