How to Throw Away a Garbage Can
Even the best garbage can reaches the end of its life, or you move and don't need it anymore but it's too yucky to leave for new owners. Anyone who has tried to throw away a garbage can can tell you, that is isn't quite as easy as it seems.
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Instructions
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Put a sign on the empty garbage can for the sanitation crew that says "please throw away the garbage can." This can take repeated attempts-and still doesn't always work. The crews move quickly through the route and don't always stop to read.
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Disguise the garbage can. Find a huge plastic bag and put the garbage can inside, or put big bags together so it looks like garbage.
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Contact the local sanitation department and explain your problem. There may be a way to throw away a garbage can that works the first or second or third time.
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Call a junk disposal service. This is a bit extreme since you end up paying for someone to take away your garbage can, but the frustration from failed attempts at other methods makes it easy to write the check.
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Decide you don't need to throw away the garbage can. Wash it out with a high-powered hose and lots of soap put it into the back yard for storing outdoor toys, birdseed or even turn it into a composter.
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Clean the garbage can. Place it in front of your house on garbage day, away from the other garbage, with a big poster that says "Free! Take Me Away." Amazingly enough, someone just might.
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Tips & Warnings
Remember, this is one of life's conundrums. It may take your entire arsenal of solutions before you actually throw away the garbage can.
