Holy Trash - a - Lot!!!

I can't believe the AMOUNT of trash we have in this house!!  It is amazing how much trash one family can create!  Tonight my husband emptied the kitchen trashcan for me.  It was full (as it usually is) and he pulled the full bag out and put a new one in.  Within about a minute and a half (maybe less time than that) the new bag was full too.  Why you ask?? Because there was trash sitting in line waiting to get in the trashcan.  Because the can was full it sat on the counter next to the can waiting its turn to be thrown away. 

We stopped our trash service earlier this year.  My husband wasn't thrilled with the man we had.  He was a "two men and a truck" deal.  He was the only one we could find that would come down our long, long driveway and pick up our trash at our backdoor.  Other services wanted to pick up our trash at the end of our driveway.  That just isn't possible for us to drag our trashcans down a quarter mile long driveway.  {sigh}  Again, my husband wasn't thrilled with this trashman because he wouldn't take all our trash.  He would only pick up two outside trashcans-full, unless we paid him more, which we did to pick up all our trash.  My husband felt like we were being "taken" by the new price to take the extra trash.  So he cancelled service and promised to take our trash to the dump himself. 

Tonight my husband said he would have to go to the dump AGAIN this week.  I mentioned that it is why our trashman picked up our trash  WEEKLY!!  LOL 

Back to our copious amounts of trash. We seem to fill the kitchen trashcan at least once a day, sometimes twice. And that is with just normal trash.  Then each of the kids' bedrooms can fill a bag at least once every other week.  The trash in the office can fill a kitchen garbage can at least weekly too.  Bathrooms combined can fill a bag, and then we have the garage trash which we can pull two bags, at least, a week. 

Two things I wish:
1. that we had a trash service that would just pick up our trash, all of it, each week so we don't have to worry about when we will get to the dump.
2. if we can't have a trash service then the guys will habitually take our trash to the dump each week so it doesn't pile up.

Last week before they went to the dump we had little animals partaking in a virtual feast each evening by digging in our trash on the deck. The trash had piled up so much that it no longer fit in our outside trashcans and we had to pile bags on the deck.  It was bad, bad, bad.