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Trash cans are a pet peeve of mine. In our neighborhood, there are a lot of 3-car garages. The problem is that the owners park all of their cars in the driveway and have the garages filled with junk or those huge plastic toys. AND THEY PUT THEIR G*****N GARBAGE CANS IN THE DRIVEWAY IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE ! Nothing says Bubba more than the cans in front instead of inside the garage or around the corner. I'm talking about $600K and up houses.
We are diligent about keeping our trash cans in our own locked backyard and moving them to the street only the night before pickup and then as soon as possible after they have been picked up, moving them back to the backyard again. Trash cans everywhere on streets is ugly.
I wish we had garbage pickup the way it used to be. In the good old days, trash cans were just moved out as far as the side of the garage (or were left there, hidden by foliage or a partial fence, all the time. On pickup day, the garbage collectors did all the work of moving the cans back and forth. The streets and yards looked so much nicer. It could be done with recyclables, too.
When did we all become "employees" of the sanitation department, doing most of the work, and why are we not on the payroll?
My parents had sunken trash cans that the garbage men had to physically pull up 3 feet to ground level, then haul them to the truck. Yikes!
Most garbage is collected by fancy trucks now, so you have to put the can out yourself. It would be much more expensive to have the sanitation engineers pull your can to the street for you.
Most of us are willing to do a little work to save the money. You could hire someone to move your cans in and out if it's a big deal.
IN ADDITION, we now have those hydraulic p/u trucks and the bins need to be in a very precise location, and an exact distance off the roadway for the hydraulic arm to work correctly. Just sayin, might be a reason. But I would never buy any place without chit chatting with neighbors.........within two miles. !!!
Not an exact distance at all, those arms extend over 10 feet and up to a 45 degree angle if I recall correctly. General guidance is to place on the curb, and have nothing near it a few feet.
Not an exact distance at all, those arms extend over 10 feet and up to a 45 degree angle if I recall correctly. General guidance is to place on the curb, and have nothing near it a few feet.
We're old-fashioned here. Our trash and recycling trucks have actual can handlers whose job is empty them into the truck. In addition, they come up to the houses of elderly or disabled persons and remove their garbage and recycling and temporarily put the contents in their neighbors cans until the trucks come by.
Trash cans are a pet peeve of mine. In our neighborhood, there are a lot of 3-car garages. The problem is that the owners park all of their cars in the driveway and have the garages filled with junk or those huge plastic toys. AND THEY PUT THEIR G*****N GARBAGE CANS IN THE DRIVEWAY IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE ! Nothing says Bubba more than the cans in front instead of inside the garage or around the corner. I'm talking about $600K and up houses.
That’s insane that a neighborhood with 3 car garages would have owners so trashy (no pun intended). I won’t even put ours out when we go out of town for the weekend when there’s a Saturday holiday pickup and it means my cans will be out Friday to Sunday. I’d feel like a complete donkey leaving them out for more than 24 hours.
As for the OP, I too have no idea what they’re talking about with the driveway situation? I thought I just didn’t have enough coffee this morning until everyone else was like WTF?
I understand what the OP is describing, or at least I think I do. I could be wrong!
Two houses are separated by a driveway wide enough for one car. There is little or no land between the driveway and the foundation of either house. The driveway belongs to the house on the left. The people who live on the house on the left are placing their garbage cans at the right edge of their driveway, which means the garbage cans are standing beside the house on the right. The OP is buying the house on the right.
Does that help? (Or, for that matter, is that correct, OP?)
I've never heard of such strict "garbage etiquette", damn. Side of the house has always been fine everywhere I have lived. In my new town we have giant robocans. Most houses seem to leave them in the driveway or side of the house (mine is off to the side of the driveway).
I understand what the OP is describing, or at least I think I do. I could be wrong!
Two houses are separated by a driveway wide enough for one car. There is little or no land between the driveway and the foundation of either house. The driveway belongs to the house on the left. The people who live on the house on the left are placing their garbage cans at the right edge of their driveway, which means the garbage cans are standing beside the house on the right. The OP is buying the house on the right.
Does that help? (Or, for that matter, is that correct, OP?)
That's how I understood it as well. It seems like a very unique scenario.
My feeling is that the owner of the driveway has every legal right to put their trash cans anywhere they want to. If putting them up against the OP's building is still technically on their property, then there really isn't much the OP can do about it to force them.
Is it rude? Yes.
This is a scenario where a tactful approach might be better. Introduce yourself and get friendly. Strike up conversation a few times, and maybe on the 4th or 5th convo bring up the barrels. Maybe say "We like to open the windows and the smell is getting in the building. Do you mind moving them to a different location?"
If they say no, really not much you can do.
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