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Thursday, June 22, 2006
12:49:00 PM EDT
Hearing Read My Lips -- Jimmy Sommerville
Why is this trash can trying to eat my head? Perhaps as a reaction to this week's Weekend Assignment:
Weekend Assignment #117: We all have to do chores around the house. Which chore do you like to do the least?
Extra Credit: Do you recycle?
As you might imagine from the picture above, the chore I like least is taking out the trash. Not because I like to live in squalor, mind you. In my particular case it's because we have to put the trash can down on the edge of the street, and the street is down a 500 foot driveway. Now, when the weather is nice, this is no big deal -- the trash can we take to the road has wheel, so you just drag it down the driveway. Fine. When it rains, however, that's more than a couple of minutes getting drizzled upon (or worse), and in the winter, when it snows, if the snow is too high, the wheels don't work and you end up dragging the damn trash can out to the edge of the road (and then back, of course, after the trash is picked up). It is a big ol' hassle.
The only thing I can say is that our neighbors who live behind us by several hundred feet have it worse. However, they tend to transport their trashcans in the curbs in the back of their pickup trucks. So they're cheating.
Extra Credit: Yes, we do recycle, and in that case it means saving our recycleables for a month and then depositing them at a site in the next town over where you can make these sorts of deposits (you guessed it) once a month. Let's just say it takes a certain level of committment to actually do the recycling thing around here. And it should also be said that the fact we do recycle owes rather a lot more to committment of my wife than of me.
Your turn: Reveal your most hated household chore! Write it up in your blog or journal and then come here to leave a link. It'll be cathartic, really.
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12:49:00 PM EDT
Hearing Read My Lips -- Jimmy Sommerville
Weekend Assignment #117: Chores You Hate
Why is this trash can trying to eat my head? Perhaps as a reaction to this week's Weekend Assignment:
Weekend Assignment #117: We all have to do chores around the house. Which chore do you like to do the least?
Extra Credit: Do you recycle?
As you might imagine from the picture above, the chore I like least is taking out the trash. Not because I like to live in squalor, mind you. In my particular case it's because we have to put the trash can down on the edge of the street, and the street is down a 500 foot driveway. Now, when the weather is nice, this is no big deal -- the trash can we take to the road has wheel, so you just drag it down the driveway. Fine. When it rains, however, that's more than a couple of minutes getting drizzled upon (or worse), and in the winter, when it snows, if the snow is too high, the wheels don't work and you end up dragging the damn trash can out to the edge of the road (and then back, of course, after the trash is picked up). It is a big ol' hassle.
The only thing I can say is that our neighbors who live behind us by several hundred feet have it worse. However, they tend to transport their trashcans in the curbs in the back of their pickup trucks. So they're cheating.
Extra Credit: Yes, we do recycle, and in that case it means saving our recycleables for a month and then depositing them at a site in the next town over where you can make these sorts of deposits (you guessed it) once a month. Let's just say it takes a certain level of committment to actually do the recycling thing around here. And it should also be said that the fact we do recycle owes rather a lot more to committment of my wife than of me.
Your turn: Reveal your most hated household chore! Write it up in your blog or journal and then come here to leave a link. It'll be cathartic, really.
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i hated cleaning out the cat pan...but then came the tediousness of vacuuming and mopping...ugh i'd take the trash out any day!
http://journals.aol.com/mascot579/aperfecttimeformexico/ -
I got a few Chores I hate to do. Find out what my #1 hated Chore is. Here's the link to my blog: http://journals.aol.com/windc
hime1992c/Yeahthisismylifeisnt itinterestin/ -
Vacuuming would be high on that list - and add to the mix a puppy that does battle while you're trying
http://journals.aol.com/jlester961/YarnsandTallTails/entrie s/2374 -
haven't done this in a while...here's mine!
http://journals.aol.com/krspkrmmom/nooneshome/entries/662
Annie =)
6/26/06 3:48 AM
http://dailysnooze.blogspot.c
Until we meet again, fair garbage man,
wil