On 5/2/2016 5:19 PM, philo wrote:
On 05/02/2016 04:09 PM, Arthur Cresswell wrote:
For the past two years I have not put out a trash can at the
curb while my neighbor's trash cans are filled to the brim.

What gives?

Here's what I throw out:
1. Everything that is "food" gets composted, so, there's no actual
food in the trash (and yes, bones and meat and oils are food
just as much as carrots and spoiled ketchup or mustard is food).

2. Every "container" containing food is rinsed out, so, the container
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Pretty much the same here.

Each week my neighbor's garbage containers are over flowing, but in a
month I'd probably not fill one.

I own my own home and one day I asked a neighbor who had been renting
for many years why he did not buy his own house, he had a good job.


He told me he had no money because all he did was buy junk he did not need.


Yep, looked like it all ended up in the garbage.

sheesh, how disgusting.


I know people in similar situation. Could easily support a house but
cannot save up enough for a down payment. I had to have my mother be on
the deed for my first house as I was only 20 when I bought it.

Never had a yard sale either. We have plenty of "stuff" but we buy what
we want/need and use it until it no longer works.