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[maestra]

The worst is when the slobs are members of your own family.

[hoosieroriginal]

I'm so sorry - I've been there - so tired I could cry after moving once.  Hopefully you didn't have any personal information in those bags.  I just threw out a ton of my daughter's stuff (because I have stored it for her for 13 years) and I reallly didn't care what happened to it, as long as it was out of my basement. 

[KALLIE]

I've NEVER had this happen. I put out the trash right before the trash collectors pick up Easy, peasy.

[butterfly123]

@sparklestar

I am sorry they made such a mess of your hard work. 

Hopefully you you will be able to relax and do something you enjoy tonight.

[Susan Louise]

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@KALLIE wrote:

I've NEVER had this happen. I put out the trash right before the trash collectors pick up Easy, peasy.

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@KALLIE We don't wake up early enough to do that here. They come around between 4-5am depending on the weather.

However, since we have security cameras, we are able to see when the folks that dig through the trash is just after dark til about 11pm. So we have become accustomed to putting our trash out about between 12 midnight - 1am and it solves the problem. We notice a lot of them rummage through to get anything made of metal because they can sell it by the pound.

@sparklestar  Maybe you can change the time you put out your trash?

[handygal2]

I call them "scavengers." My neighborhood has them too. Any items l leave in plain sight at the curb for the sanitation department's bulk pick-up never remain there long enough to actually get picked up by the town. But l leave bagged bulk items at the side of my house, and just let the department know in advance where to find them. The scavengers won't come onto my property to do their treasure hunting-- at least they haven't yet...

[MomCat]

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@maestra wrote:

The worst is when the slobs are members of your own family.

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You made me laugh! 

[walkingal]

That is disgusting.  Isn't that stealing?  You're lucky, though, that your sanitation department would pick up that much stuff.  I don't think ours would.  In my neighborhood, most homes have 2 or at the most 3 trash cans.  When I have a big project like cleaning out in or around the house, I take it to our county landfill. 

[Deanie]

We have solved this very problem.  In our area, we are allowed to burn and we burn everything that is flammable.  No personal info, nothing.  Sometimes townships have shredding operations that may be useful.

[LyndaGee]

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@handygal2 wrote:

I call them "scavengers." My neighborhood has them too. Any items l leave in plain sight at the curb for the sanitation department's bulk pick-up never remain there long enough to actually get picked up by the town. 

Yup.  We had an old pet bed that I left at the curb.  It was gone within 10 minutes.  And that thing was not in good condition, if you can imagine.  

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