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LOL! So true!!! And, I no longer have to "stage" my recycle bin to try to hide 20 wine bottles for the week underneath a single milk carton and small newspaper! LOL!!!!!!!!
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I would bury cans under other stuff in he bin in the house.. And dump that in the outside barrel when my husband wasn't home. When it was glass bottles everything I would hear the noise it made as I dumped them in I was so embarrassed. I even worried what the trash men must think.
Minor victory and a smile when I dumped the can into the barrel today and it hardly made a sound and was full of food cans and plastic soda/milk bottles :-)
Minor victory and a smile when I dumped the can into the barrel today and it hardly made a sound and was full of food cans and plastic soda/milk bottles :-)
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Originally Posted by SoberinSyracuse 
LOL! So true!!! And, I no longer have to "stage" my recycle bin to try to hide 20 wine bottles for the week underneath a single milk carton and small newspaper! LOL!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by least
I used to put my wine bottles in paper bags so it wouldn't be obvious how many there were...
(Jus' kiddin')
I still have some empties in my desk drawers and closet. Prob should clear those out.
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Originally Posted by Outonthetiles
Even the best recycling bin bottle hider can't disguise the unbelievably loud, distinctive crashing sound that 75 or 80 bottles make when they get dumped into the recycling truck. I live on a hillside and sound really carries, so on days when I was home when the recycling came, it sounded like a pickup truck full of glass being dropped from the Empire State Building!
Perhaps that sound is our SV shouting at us? We just have to listen harder.
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Oh man.
I must've been a really bad alcoholic. I never bothered to recycle. I just threw the bottles in with the rest of the trash. The bags would get so heavy (wine bottles are hefty hehe) I'd have to drag them down the hill to the curb...clinking all the way. We had garbage pickers that used to come and go through our trash. I could hear the "clink clink" when they'd get to my bags and cringe.
I used to put my empty nips in plastic baggies and discard them in trash cans all over town. Some went in the trash outside CVS. Some went in the trash outside Stop and Shop. Some I just flung out the window of the car etc. Ugh. Insanity.
I must've been a really bad alcoholic. I never bothered to recycle. I just threw the bottles in with the rest of the trash. The bags would get so heavy (wine bottles are hefty hehe) I'd have to drag them down the hill to the curb...clinking all the way. We had garbage pickers that used to come and go through our trash. I could hear the "clink clink" when they'd get to my bags and cringe.
I used to put my empty nips in plastic baggies and discard them in trash cans all over town. Some went in the trash outside CVS. Some went in the trash outside Stop and Shop. Some I just flung out the window of the car etc. Ugh. Insanity.
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I would hide my beer cans all over the house for weeks at a time. The garbage truck comes on Tuesdays so before my boyfriend got home I would try to throw the boxes and cans in a big black garbage bag so no one could see through the bag and I would take it straight to the road so my boyfriend didn't have a chance to see them. I was always nervous about it. And who knows what the trash guys thought.
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I have done all that, but the funny part of it all is -- I am convinced that the only one who cared was me.
Garbage guys got much more interesting things to think about.
My cleaning lady did think my teenager was drinking, but that is another story.
Garbage guys got much more interesting things to think about.
My cleaning lady did think my teenager was drinking, but that is another story.
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When the thread "What Normal Drinkers Don't Do" was going, someone posted (I can't remember who) that they actually wrapped their empties in bubble wrap to keep them from clanking! I thought that was hysterical!
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Great job Icandobetter!
I never did a great job on recycling. by the end of my drinking career, I was up to 24 or so cans of beer each and every day. That adds up quickly in the trash. One Monday morning when I was at work, the garbage man missed his truck and accidentally dumped one of my XL trash cans with all of my empty beer cans in it all over my street.
My wife heard every beer can in slow motion as they scattered through the road! I still haven't lived that one down yet.
So glad those days are gone!!
I never did a great job on recycling. by the end of my drinking career, I was up to 24 or so cans of beer each and every day. That adds up quickly in the trash. One Monday morning when I was at work, the garbage man missed his truck and accidentally dumped one of my XL trash cans with all of my empty beer cans in it all over my street.
My wife heard every beer can in slow motion as they scattered through the road! I still haven't lived that one down yet.
So glad those days are gone!!
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