I love our garbage pickers. My respect and gratitude for
them increases with every cleaning project we’ve undertaken. They have
scavenged our garbage for items I was pretty certain the regular garbage collectors
would not take. Everything from rusty bikes and metal shelving units, to old
desks and rickety garden tools, and even blocks of wood. The latest encounter
with our neighborhood garbage pickers occurred 2 weeks ago.
We had just demolished the tool shed out back. We were able
to tear down everything but the floor using a chain saw, power drill (with
screwdriver bits), hammers and a crowbar. The people from Bagster.com hauled
off the tool shed remains for a total cost of $170 – including the bag. The only
thing waiting for demolition is the floor. We have opted for propping the floor
against the back wall of the garage (out of site for the most part). We will
leave it that way for a month, or 2, or 5…until the weathering makes it easier to
wield our chain saw.
In the meantime, we were still faced with the sheer number
of cinder blocks placed under the barn floor. A little more than 3 dozen in
all. There’s no way we were keeping that many cinder blocks. We have no use for
them. They’ll just take up space wherever we put them.
So we grabbed our dolly and took the first 10 cinder bricks
to the curb, where we left them as a test. If the garbage pickers took them,
we’d do the same with the remaining cinder blocks. We didn’t have long to wait.
About 45 minutes later, one of the lawn care crews working in our neighborhood
came knocking at our door.
“Are you getting rid of those cinder blocks? Can I
have them?”
Uh, let me think, “Yes. Absolutely. Please take them
off my hands. In fact, I have some more out back. Would you like those too?”
Faster than you can say “Yea!
Free Stuff!” those 3 guys had pulled the wheelbarrow off their work trailer,
rolled it to the back yard, and cleared out the remaining 2 dozen plus cinder
blocks. In less than an hour, those cinder blocks were history. The garbage
pickers have picked up (literally) the heaviest part of our demolition job,
free of charge. The completion date for the flooring demolition is still up in
the air (or lolly-gagging behind the garage, to be more precise), but it, too,
will be taken care of in good time by the Dames of Demolition because we have
power tools – and garbage pickers – and we know how to use them.
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