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Good day for laundry - wind and sun. It's also hard rubbish weekend in Darebin, so I'll be looking out for large plant pots and mesh to cover the fence in the courtyard. Let the curb crawling commence (after breakfast). Reduce, reuse, recycle!
I'd be a bit worries about the laundry blowing away. With some of the gusts out there the hard rubbish might blow away too!
I do love a good hard rubbish crawl. We have on demand pickups here, so don't get the concentrated collections anymore.
Trees are definitely thrashing their branches around here. My consolation is that the laundry will dry very fast today. Hard rubbish day is lots of fun I reckon. It's remarkable the number of items that keep appearing only in front of different houses each year.
My blue clamshell I bought for the dogs (that they refused to use) got taken by someone down the road. I was happy to see it had quite a few years of use before I saw it outside their place again.
I threw out some old curtains a few months ago, which mysteriously reappeared in an abandoned trolley dumped at a vacant house acrosss the road. Not so good, and I have wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what on earth was going on there.
Mind is boggling. Maybe they didn't fit the windows?
I really have no idea. But I just got back from a walk and there are another two dumped trolleys there as well, it seems to be some sort of trolley staging area. There is another up the road, which is potentially still making its way there. Perhaps the curtains are a robe to designate the Trolley Monarch?
All hail the Mighty Trolley Monarch! Definitely rules in High St Thornbury/Northcote. Mind you we do have 2 Aldis, a Woolies and 2 Coleses as well as a lot of other shops in a 1 k strip. And Preston Market not much further away.
The closest stores with a trolley to me are 1.6km away, you have to cross a highway and then mostly push up hill to get here. Yet still they come.
Oh I came across the BEST pot in someone’s hard rubbish on my morning walk this week. It was too heavy to carry so I was gonna swing by in my car to grab it. But I walked past it again not 15 minutes later on my way back and it was gonna. 😞 Gotta act quickly if you see something good
I wish my council still did it that way (Merri Bek), but you now have to book a collection and you're allowed 2 per year of a certain size. If you go over that size you lose your second booking. I like it better when everyone puts their stuff out all at once, and then you can go around having a polite lift and sift of everyone else's stuff. Last time we booked a collection they forgot about it for weeks. When we rang and reminded them they came and got it and the nature strip was all dead! In the meantime people had been coming after nightfall to add paint cans and other stuff that you're not allowed to and the pile was huge.
I’ve got a hard rubbish collection coming up too, and I’m putting all the good stuff out today in case someone wants it. No large pots though, unfortunately. Hopefully the rain holds off