On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:30:22 -0400, aemeijers
wrote:

mm wrote:
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:09:25 -0400, "Cajun" wrote:

"mm" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:29:02 -0400, Jim Elbrecht
wrote:
I got to tell you, it never occurred to me until I read Smitty's
answer that it was possible to buy a lid without a can. Although it
makes sense since lids get lost a lot more than most other things.
That's what I always figured too, until I recently bought 2 Rubbermaid
cans. The lids were listed separately than the cans, didn't notice until
they rang them up. I was like, huh? Whoever thought they would sell cans,
without lids.

Well, I had a meeting tonight next door to home depot and I ran in.

My probably 32-gallon garbage can has NO brand name on it, somehow,
but it looked just like some 45 gallon garbage cans with the
Rubbermaid name on it. (Mine actually has a non-wrinkled area on the
front with no name embossed there!)** I measured it with my arm, and
theirs is a lot bigger than mine. The clerk thought they sold metal
lids separately but only metal. But I have to find a store or
website that sells the right size first.

But if you bought Rubbermaid separately recently, I'm on the right
trail.

**A couple of my neigbhors have the same size. I'll have to go look
if they have a brand name next garbage day. But they weren't around
when my lid went missing. Their cans and lids were lying in their
yards. I went out within an hour of the garbage collection. No one
was around except the garbage men.... at least that I saw.


Did the next guy downstream from you (as the packer truck drives) maybe
have an EXTRA lid you didn't notice? Maybe the guy on the back forgot to
let go....

That's a very good point. I looked in that direction but I didn't
think of that or look harder. I'll check it out some more. Thanks

P&M because it's been a few days.