Trash tossed in yard

[Windy in Kansas]

I live in town and get mildly upset when anyone tosses trash into my yard whether it be a cigarette butt, beer can, or allows their animal to do as animals do and not clean up behind it.

Having said that, yesterday I found a piece of trash that I didn't mind at all since it will be quite useful.

The piece of trash was the tin Eclipse mints come in. Nice little box with reinforced hinged lid. It is the ideal size to store matches in. While it isn't waterproof it will keep matches nice and tidy and close at hand in a toolbox, etc.

[Windy in Kansas]

Just realized that it is also the ideal size to keep a little made money in. Narrow side of a bill is about the height of the tin.

[Ravenlost]

LOL...reminds me of something that happened when we lived in Dallas/Ft. Worth. We kept finding trash in our backyard, which was odd because we had a very high privacy fence. One day my son was on the patio and the guy behind us was mowing his yard. The guy stopped mowing and started throwing trash over the fence into our yard!

LOL...my son walked over and started throwing it back. We never had trash in our yard again.

[watcher]

One man's trash is another man's treasure. The wife has just about given up on me taking other people's trash. After building all kinds of things out of this "trash" she has, almost, seen the light. She still gives me dirty looks when I pick things up I see laying on the side of the road.

[Ravenlost]

My husband still give me dirty looks, although he thinks the blackboard in my potting shed is pretty neat. I made it out of an old washing machine lid I found on the side of the road.

[ronbre]

that is just rude

[JB740i]

Originally Posted by Ravenlost

LOL...reminds me of something that happened when we lived in Dallas/Ft. Worth. We kept finding trash in our backyard, which was odd because we had a very high privacy fence. One day my son was on the patio and the guy behind us was mowing his yard. The guy stopped mowing and started throwing trash over the fence into our yard!

LOL...my son walked over and started throwing it back. We never had trash in our yard again.

That might have been worth throwing a full trash bag from your kitchen back over the fence at em.

[How Do I]

Originally Posted by Ravenlost

LOL...reminds me of something that happened when we lived in Dallas/Ft. Worth. We kept finding trash in our backyard, which was odd because we had a very high privacy fence. One day my son was on the patio and the guy behind us was mowing his yard. The guy stopped mowing and started throwing trash over the fence into our yard!

LOL...my son walked over and started throwing it back. We never had trash in our yard again.

That would've been funny to watch.

While I normally don't like trash being thrown in our yard, I don't mind the soda & beer cans so much. Just wish they'd throw them in the same place so I wouldn't have to walk so far to collect them.

[sunflower-n-ks]

At the house in town, two blocks from the university, there was always the "college kid" trash in the yard. Bottles, cans, paper stuff, etc. Some even went the extra step and threw bottles up on the sidewalk to break them.

One day I went out close to the street where cars were always parked and was rewarded with MONEY. Yep, there were some dollar bills and coins scattered out where it looked like someone had given it a toss. ????? Didn't mind picking that up.

[Ken Scharabok]

I read someplace about 50% of roadside trash blows out of the back of pickup trucks.

In TN, alcohol in vehicles laws have made an significant different. Until fairly recently we had the 'pass the bottle' law. The driver couldn't drink, but the passenger(s) could. Now no one in a vehicle is allowed to consume alcohol. If you are stopped a 'fresh' can or empty can count as an open container offense, so new practice is to throw out empties.

In the spring I pick up a couple of five gallons buckets of mostly Budweiser products from the pasture along the road. I don't mind the cows having a party, but they could at least invite me.

[mnn2501]

Originally Posted by Ravenlost

LOL...reminds me of something that happened when we lived in Dallas/Ft. Worth. We kept finding trash in our backyard, which was odd because we had a very high privacy fence. One day my son was on the patio and the guy behind us was mowing his yard. The guy stopped mowing and started throwing trash over the fence into our yard!

LOL...my son walked over and started throwing it back. We never had trash in our yard again.

I wonder if y'all lived near me. The neighbor kids will occasionally throw stuff over our fence, I find it and throw it back over -- slowed them down, but every so often....

[Patt]

We keep one in each vehicle to hold change.