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taam
Citizen
Username: Taam
Post Number: 105
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 7:04 am: | 
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...Bulk pick-up. They took everything! What an amazing thing this is to offer. I think it should be a holiday or something. We now have space in our garage, attik & basement! - HOORAY!! |
red
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 5177
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 7:19 am: |
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WendyP
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 3394
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 7:23 am: |
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My husband also loves bulk pick up! He's going to take the day off to empty our garage, and he's usually up very early in the morning to witness them take it all away! Woo hoo!
Now if only they'd offer it more than once a year! |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1276
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 8:02 am: |
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It is sort of like Santa coming or something...you fear that all your crap will still be sitting there somehow & then it's gone! |
kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1095
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:07 am: |
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I put out too little!
The light grey dishwasher rack is still on the curb because it was all that was in my "pile"!
It must have been invisible to the WM guys...I guess I will go ask permission to throw it on someone else's pile in another section of town. |
mooewe
Citizen
Username: Mooewe
Post Number: 332
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:08 am: |
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I'm totally baffled by some of the stuff I see in bulk pickup piles. One house near me had boxes of books, bags of clothing, games, puzzles, etc. Another had two nice porch rockers that needed recaning. If you don't want this kind of stuff, wouldn't donating it to Vietnam Vets or someplace similar be better? You'd get a tax deduction, and hopefully the stuff doesn't end up in a landfill.
I realize that probably most of that stuff wasn't there by the time Waste Management came through. But we use the bulk pickup to get rid of broken and unusable stuff, not stuff we could donate. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1418
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:15 am: |
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I donate things to the Vietnam Vets on a regular basis, but still put those kind of things out on bulky waste day if I have them. I do that because I know that people who want or need them will take them - they never end up going to Waste Management, so what's the difference really? In essence, I'm still donating - it's just not to an organization this time. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2609
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:54 am: |
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I love to go shopping on Bulk Pickup day, but I forgot all about it last night. |
kriss
Citizen
Username: Kriss
Post Number: 273
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 2:15 pm: |
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Why doesn't South Orange have regularly scheduled bulk pick up? Why, why, why, why, why? WHY?
I've done the: call 6 weeks in advance; describe (in detail) the six (not seven -- six) items you are allowed to leave (if it changes, call back); thing.
Our other option is to get up at the crack of dawn to get first in line for the (not nearly enough) "container day" Saturdays. I'm sorry, I don't want this sh*t in my house, please don't make me put it in my car. Oh, and last year, we were so late (at 9AM) that we couldn't even get a place in line, let alone get in to the dump before 4. So, thanks, town.
I hear it tell that in WEST Orange, you can leave your crap out EVERY week, and they will come take it away.
Who IS this little garbage elf, and how can we make it come here?
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Oldstone
Citizen
Username: Rogers4317
Post Number: 660
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 3:42 pm: |
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taam, when you say everything was there anything that wasn't supposed to be in there but you did anyway?
i have old storm windows and doors that i removed from the house and they are still sitting in the garage. i'm wondering if they will take them. |
The Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1670
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 5:23 pm: |
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where would one dispose of old computer monitors? |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1425
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 5:25 pm: |
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Mr T - The curb. I put a whole PC out there last bulky waste day (minus my old hard drive). Oldstone - put them out there - someone will take them. My motto - put EVERYTHING out. Nothing has ever been left by the time I get home on bulky waste day (and most of the stuff isn't even still on the curb by the time I get up in the morning on bulky waste day...) |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 7166
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 6:50 pm: |
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Oldstone:
Put them out early. The guys who drive around with the vans and pick through the stuff we leave out will grab them in a minute, if one of your neighbors doesn't get to them first.
Mr. T:
If you want to be responsible about it, you should wait until hazardous waste day in Cedar Grove to get rid of that computer monitor. However, it wouldn't hurt to put it out early on pick up day and bring it back in the house before the pick-up guys arrive if it is still sitting there in the morning. |
argon_smythe
Citizen
Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 799
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:44 pm: |
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Kriss, your question will be answerable only by the mighty Tau...
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mooewe
Citizen
Username: Mooewe
Post Number: 333
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 10:09 pm: |
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I think next year I'm going to run around picking up the books, clothes, etc. and then donate them to the Vets. You people are wasting tax deductions! |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1280
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 8:20 am: |
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Kriss,
I wonder what the six thing is about...*six* weeks ahead, *six* items...maybe someone making these rules has OCD or something |
The Oracle of MOL
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Username: Oracle_of_mol
Post Number: 230
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 8:24 am: |
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Argon: Incorrect, but then, who would think to ask a semi-retired supernatural entity on a fixed income?
Here in Boca, BTW, nobody ever throws things out. They just move.
Go in peace.
--The Oracle of MOL |
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