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Does the whole world have "Hard Rubbish" or just Australia
diverdown:
Its Hard rubbish time in my suburb
For those of you who don't get to enjoy the aussie euphoria of hard rubbish I will explain.
Once a year we get a letter in the post from the local council letting us know it's hard rubbish time.
This allows us to throw all the "junk" we have in the house and shed onto the front lawn. It sits there about a week and then the dump truck comes and collects it.
What is this "junk"? you ask
well it's everything from whitegoods to lounge chairs. Windows to old shoes. Anything that wont fit in the weekly rubbish collection.
Whats great about that?
Well it's a bit of a tradition but most people at one time in their childhood have found some "treasure" out on the neighbours lawn. As a kid i brought home a chandalier. It still hangs in what was my sisters room 20 years later.
last year I got a few bikes and built my kids a billy cart.
This year I have got so far
2x 21" Pc monitors
1x19" monitor
too many 17" monitors - will add these to my hard rubbish next week
a 100cm 3yr old wide screen TV - working
2x complete P111 1000Mhz 20Gb HDD DVD systems
several Soundblaster 16/128 sound cards
A few AGP and PCI graffix cards
Enough ram to give above about 400mb each
Several old pc's i have raided for above
PC speakers
keboards
mice
Power supplies as backups to fix above(didnt need them)
This was after an hour of driving around. I have enough bits here to keep me in MAME projects till next year. And my 3 year old got to experiance the wonders of Hard rubbish. He wanted several trampolines but i couldn't get em in the car. -reminds me of the "tramba trambam trambampoline "Simpsons episode)
The cost of this = nuthin except the fuel and slight embarasment being busted going through others trash.
well it's off to brows other peoples HDD - no pix left on discs yet but hears hoping
pointdablame:
We have that in my town 2 times a year. It's called "Bulk Pickup" around these parts though.
shmokes:
It's called bulk pickup here too, so we do have hard rubbish, but what in hell are whitegoods?
ChadTower:
Whitegood are probably appliances.
We have appliance pick up day once a year. Stuff like couches and the like can be put out with regular trash, one large item per week. Random stuff that isn't big but won't fit in a bag can be put next to the bags but if you put out more than say 2 of them they all get left behind.
We have a $130 yearly trash/recycling collection fee + $1.25 per bag tossed. You buy $1.25 stickers at various places around town and put them onto any bag. Bags are not taken if no stickers are present.
diverdown:
Whitegoods are freezers washers dryers etc........ mostly because they all used to be white.
WOW $1.25 per bag..... I would be broke.
If we leave anything beside the bin it gets left there all year till Hard rubbish time
I should have asked in OP
Whats the best thing you have "found" in someone elses hard rubbish?
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