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council clean ups

latina4621 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:21:29 GMT

how often does your council have the hard rubbish collection days

ours have only ever had one. I think they should do it here at least twice a year.

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freddie*rooster — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:26:55 GMT

Here people started dumping their rubbish, dirty mattreses, white goods, stoofed TV's etc at the charity bins, and at the back of the Life Line shop, because the council charge like wooded bulls to use the dump. Now I think they have a hard rubbish pick up once a year.

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icyfroth — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:31:33 GMT

Ours come around once a fortnight. I love them. firstly, you can put out the stuff you've been hoarding for years and finally let it go.

Secondly, you can pick up some really good stuff to replace what you threw out :^O

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latina4621 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:36:08 GMT

:^O icy that makes sense.

people dump stuff in another town closer to here as well and it's all due to tip fees.

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freddie*rooster — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:38:25 GMT

I actually seen a lady sitting in a car guarding a chest of drawers across the road. Her husband/son/partner/lover/neighbour came in a ute and parked bonnet to bonnet with her and loaded it on the ute and off they went.

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freddie*rooster — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:40:28 GMT

I wanted to hide inside, open the window enough to call out *SCABS* :^O my OH said noooooooooooo they might come and knock on the door, I said that's OK I will just tell them it was you.:|

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cherry*135 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:41:04 GMT

Twice a year. No TV's, lounge suites, e-waste, mattresses though and other excluded stuff.

They were thinking of changing it, to the same as Wollongong where you can call the council twice a year and they will give a date that fortnight and take the stuff away. Instead of people putting stuff out all over the kerb.

I read some councils don't like people putting stuff out a week early before the collection day 'cause it looks untidy.

My daughter lives in Sydney CBD and she called the council, recently as she had a queen mattress to dispose of. They told her to put it outside on a specified date and they picked it up. Pretty good I thought.

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latina4621 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:42:28 GMT

WOW! she must to have wanted it really badly,

when they had it here it was the busiest I've ever seen the town .LOl, people were out in droves, utes, trailers and supermarket trolleys :^O

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cherry*135 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:42:42 GMT

I still see sofas etc dumped by the Charity bins.. how silly is that. If get rained on before anyone collects it it would be ruined and the charity would be stuck with it.

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latina4621 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:43:17 GMT

I wanted to hide inside, open the window enough to call out *SCABS* :^O my OH said noooooooooooo they might come and knock on the door, I said that's OK I will just tell them it was you.:|

Freddy that is funny :^O

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cherry*135 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:45:24 GMT

I put a bookcase out on the kerb, went out myself for about 20mins and it was gone when I returned (which i didn't mind it was quite usuable). I just don't know how people know so fast what is out. Quiet suburban street. Unless it was one of the neighbours, but similar happened before.

Even the after the council did the pick-up there were a few things they left behind (probably not big enough for that collection) and someone was around a few minutes later and took them.

Score.. not one thing left for us to dispose of.

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latina4621 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:45:29 GMT

yeah when they had it here we were told we were only allowed to put it out the day before.

but people had stuff out a week before it

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cherry*135 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:48:17 GMT

I put some potted plants out that I didn't want, on a random week, and they got taken.

Quite handy.. strange what people will take. One was an old pelmet from vertical blinds and a couple of other bits of metal (been hiding in the shed for years before we moved there) and they went fairly fast

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latina4621 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:51:09 GMT

I hate throwing plants out, I try to find someone who will take them , like last week I had a dahlia tree gave it to one of the neighbours down the road.

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icyfroth — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:52:33 GMT

We have a lot of contract workers, backpackers and short-term renters in our area. They can furnish whole flats with whats left out. Sofas, tables, chairs, china and crockery items, tv's, bedding, clothes, bathroom items, whatever.

It's nice to see it recycled.

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freakiness — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:55:10 GMT

I put some potted plants out that I didn't want, on a random week, and they got taken.

Quite handy.. strange what people will take. One was an old pelmet from vertical blinds and a couple of other bits of metal (been hiding in the shed for years before we moved there) and they went fairly fast

We took an antique cabinet outside to clean and take photos to put on ebay. Took the photos, went inside to get the young guys to carry it back inside and we saw a ute take off up the road with the cabinet in the back. Less than 5 minutes it was left unattended.

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latina4621 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:55:57 GMT

we do to here have a lot of backpackers staying in the area as well more in the summer months though.

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latina4621 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:56:50 GMT

OMG did you get it back the cabinet.

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cherry*135 — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:57:09 GMT

That's bad freaki.. was that the end of it, you never got it back?

It is good things get recycled that is why I put them out earlier so people can take them before the council does.

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freakiness — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:59:15 GMT

OMG did you get it back the cabinet.

No, He was fast. I think he saw me cleaning it and waited for his moment. He was working on a new house getting build across the road. Just the one day cleaning the yard. I was not impressed.