OK, it's not really trash day for another couple of days - but this stuff actually went in the bin today, so I'm counting it.
Exhibit "A" - packing foam from a new bookcase. It's been sitting there for about a month, mostly because I had a vague idea it might be useful for a display project (of shopping bags from foreign countries). But that project is a long way off, I don't have tools to cut a straight edge in foam, there are other bases I could use, and I may in fact have gotten rid of the bags, I'm not actually sure! So I filled up the rest of my bin with styrofoam chunks, after nearly sabotaging myself by checking to see if any local recyclers take the stuff. which they don't, thank god.
Exhibit "B" - mini-greenhouse parts. The thing served well for a few years, then the cover disintegrated and I bought a couple more. I was thinking to save the old as spare parts, then realized the vertical rods and shelves aren't the parts that would need replacing, so there is no use in keeping them. What I am keeping are the horizontal supports, since those are the part that is likely to break. The rest can go.
Exhibit "C" - coffee cans from Trader Joe's. These are another example of something I do use, but got carried away with. I have several in my kitchen I have decorated with wallpaper that are very nice canisters for flour, sugar, beans, etc. These others, undecorated, get deployed as user-friendly containers for cat food. For over a decade, I have been buying huge 15-20lb bags of dry cat food from the vet, and it made sense to have these smaller containers. That special food was for a cat that died last October, and I buy smaller bags of food now. If circumstances change and I start buying bigger bags again, well, I still buy the coffee, so I needn't worry about being short on the canisters. I thought about removing the top and bottom in order to recycle the paperboard, but it is lined with something foil-like, so I don't know that it qualifies, so they just got tossed.
Exhibit "A" - packing foam from a new bookcase. It's been sitting there for about a month, mostly because I had a vague idea it might be useful for a display project (of shopping bags from foreign countries). But that project is a long way off, I don't have tools to cut a straight edge in foam, there are other bases I could use, and I may in fact have gotten rid of the bags, I'm not actually sure! So I filled up the rest of my bin with styrofoam chunks, after nearly sabotaging myself by checking to see if any local recyclers take the stuff. which they don't, thank god.
Exhibit "B" - mini-greenhouse parts. The thing served well for a few years, then the cover disintegrated and I bought a couple more. I was thinking to save the old as spare parts, then realized the vertical rods and shelves aren't the parts that would need replacing, so there is no use in keeping them. What I am keeping are the horizontal supports, since those are the part that is likely to break. The rest can go.
Exhibit "C" - coffee cans from Trader Joe's. These are another example of something I do use, but got carried away with. I have several in my kitchen I have decorated with wallpaper that are very nice canisters for flour, sugar, beans, etc. These others, undecorated, get deployed as user-friendly containers for cat food. For over a decade, I have been buying huge 15-20lb bags of dry cat food from the vet, and it made sense to have these smaller containers. That special food was for a cat that died last October, and I buy smaller bags of food now. If circumstances change and I start buying bigger bags again, well, I still buy the coffee, so I needn't worry about being short on the canisters. I thought about removing the top and bottom in order to recycle the paperboard, but it is lined with something foil-like, so I don't know that it qualifies, so they just got tossed.
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