Waste Not Want Not

I was reading a blog a few days ago when the writer remembered a family member who stored garbage in a freezer during the summer.  This brought me back to the days when we first moved to this area. There was a public dump.  "so what?" you may ask. saucy readers.  You could take anything to the dump.  It was a huge pit of every thing you could imagine.  Some of the far seeing residents of the area would leave their good junk stuff up on the edge for people to take if they so wished.  Great treasures were to be found there.

It was a happy place. sigh  Several years ago the Powers That Be decided that these dumps were a blot on the landscape, dangerous, attracted bears, unfriendly to the environment, etc.  and they just closed them down.  We were given these for our compost:

Then we were told our garbage would be picked up every two weeks alternating with the compost.  Gasp!  What were we to do with our smelly old garbage for two weeks? We are of hearty Loyalist Stock.  We know how to pick up and start all over again!  Some of the great minds in our community started using these to store their garbage in at the end of their driveway for all and sundry to see:

Freezers!  Doesn't everyone have an old used up rusty freezer just waiting to be reused and recycled?!

I mean really, what could be better?  It's raccoon and bear proof!

Here's one customized with a totally removable cover!

The lids are still up on a lot of them because garbage removal was just this Tuesday past!

For the less imaginative people who choose to come up with their own contraptions:

Very high tech, is it not?

So you want to see our garbage containment system you say?  Voila!

Yes, we like to live large at the LC.