There will be nothing....I mean nothing......of value in front of my casa next weekend. I am officially embarrassed that the stuff out there was once important enough for me to keep.
I am a dyslexic agnostic insomniac. I lay awake at night wondering if there is a dog.
It really is easier to just pay for a dozen stickers throughout the year. Though I guess that sort of takes away the recycling factor. This event both amuses me and creeps me out. I wonder how many conversion vans will fail to make it out of my street when they are heavy laden with crap and get stuck in the potholes? And it is just a matter of time before a rummager gets runned ova on Park or Hawthorn. Hopefully it is someone that has a few years under their belt and not a kid. I wouldn't lose any sleep if this freak show rite of spring went away permanently.
Gentlemen, start yer injins!
Dude, is this a dude?!? Or a hot babe? My guess is dude.
I also wish this event would go away forever!! A couple of years back I was so pi$$ed that I could not drive through town because of all the losers picking through everyones trash.
There won't be anything in front of our love shack.
What little we have to put out, will not go out until early Monday morning. I do not want garbage pickers going through our stuff and leaving a mess on the parkway. I also do not like this event. I do much better with garbage sticker a couple times a year.
"The right shoes can change your life."—Cinderella
Wanted from Glen Ellyn Clean Sweep Weekend: One men's bicycle, working condition. Mine keep getting stolen, so am willing to "recycle" just about anything. If your neighbors put one out, please inform!
Having a goal makes the amnesty garbage weekend much more tolerable!
What will you bait them with? Ideally you would put out an item that forces them to slow down and check it out, but once they realize what it is they don't want it...
I have a great wooden Pottery Barn office chair that cracked (someone with the talent of even the worst craftsman would be able to fix it and put it into use). I've got some good stuff.
Or, I've got a lot of trash. I don't care either way as long as it's gone.
"If you were the Governor of any other state, you would be a disgrace to that state."
Originally posted by 4MP: Wanted from Glen Ellyn Clean Sweep Weekend: One men's bicycle, working condition. Mine keep getting stolen, so am willing to "recycle" just about anything.
You really do live on the south side don't you?
"I don't want to hog the limelight. This is Roland Burris' day." Blago
Originally posted by GESince1958: We'll have several old non-working and semi-working analog TV's, a couple of mowers (if I find a new one this week), and the usual pile 'o junk.
Wanted: • Bags of charcoal (non-self lighting) from those who have recently gone gas grill.
• Semi-used office chair, with arms, and better than the one I picked up two years ago.
Can you put out otherwise recyclable/landscape sticker requiring things for Clean Sweep? We have a ton of firewood that the previous owners of our house left in the garage for us (from 2005). The chances of our family lighting a fire in the fireplace in the next 5 years is remote. I'd like to free up some space in the garage. Can I put that out?
I am also putting out a bunch of random crap. Hopefully more rather than less. I have a pack rat husband who I know will insist that he needs to keep everything I want to get rid of, so it will be a battle of the wills to see what actually makes it to the curb.
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