It’s published in the local newspaper, but my brilliant wife puts it in a colour coded excel sheet and hangs it on the fridge, and gives our elderly neighbors copies.
How can you forget its the same day every week. The only disruption is when there is a public holiday that week binday moves one day later.
Now knowing if its recycling that week, thats wizardry and I just go based off how full my recycling bin is or if my neighbours have theres out.
there are places that don’t follow a weekly schedule but rather another number of days, presumably because it’s considered a balance of lower cost and frequent enough pickup
I’m happy with my alternating garbage/cardboard and plastics/glass weeks, with the green bin picked up every week, though. seems like a perfect schedule — just enough time to get a bin of recycling worth putting out, and with the green bin coming weekly, I sometimes struggle to even get enough garbage to bother tying the bag up and putting it out
Dude, we are species that went from arguing about who does the dishes to arguing about who fills the dishwasher… We are not paying attention to bin day… lol.
Bin day is the highlight of my week so maybe I pay an abnormal amount of attention to it.
I just have a fortnightly recurring entry in my calendar for the recycling bin.
the answer is: Copy the neighbors.
Someone has to be the neighbor everyone copies.
Always copy the neighbors.
I live in a tourist town, and my side of the street is the incorporated city, while across the street is unincorporated county. As such, they have a different trash day, which is Thursdays, while mine is Friday. That said, my closest full time neighbors live 4 houses up the road around a bend in county, so I don’t have day heads up usually.
Though I did remember today. So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
I’d invest in a calendar reminder every week. Probably your best bet.
Eh don’t worry, I usually don’t forget because my wife will go bananas
Neighbors house is 50/50 city / county.
He pays prorated split taxes to both but gets trash and recycling from both.
Lucky bastard.
That actually pretty handy
My whole area is like this. City and county services across the street from one another. Pensacola? :)
We have two trash services in competition. 🤷🏻 Wasteful, I know, but the competition keeps prices down and service up. Never had such solid trash service. :)
I was house sitting once and tried this… turns out the garbage system in that area is privatized and they all have different garbage days. Which is fucking insane imo.
Copy the binfluencer.
Double it and give to neighbor
My city provides a handy ics file that we can import.
Our city offers email reminders the day before pickup, showing what items will be picked up that week.
“The weatherman said the word “snow” so now we won’t be picking up this week. You’ll have to wait until next week. Sorry, not sorry. Also, your quarterly payment is due and no, we’re not going to give you a discount for the pickup that we missed.” --Republic Sanitation
Nice try. You will not geolocate me based on my bin day
You’re a Wednesday bin day guy I can tell.
Metadata kills!
E. Never.
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Doesn’t matter, I live in an ‘apartment’, there’s a dumpster.
… you people all have houses?
Must be old, or lucky.
It’s tomorrow, but it’s 4:30am tomorrow, So all the calendars show tomorrow, but if you put it out tomorrow, they’ll already have come. Then every time there’s a holiday and you look at the calendar to see if it’s offset, you’ll have to do that math, and you never do that math at a reasonable hour, only at 1:30am when you just showered and laid down in bed.
Just look at the phase of the moon, like a normal dog-person.
Hard mode - yesterday was a bank holiday.
Oh this post just reminded me to take the bins back in. Thanks.
Tuesday morning so put out on Monday night.
If we’re talking holiday schedule I give up and just go to the website and look at the calendar. It’s accurate!
You must live where there are few wild animals. Where I live that’s a great way to have your trash strewn all across the road by morning.
I live in NJ. So while there are absolutely animals that would do that, just not here in this specific area. Deer don’t really do that much. And the rabbits are a bit small for it. They just both eat gardens.
Bears and coons upset my neighbors’ cans, but they leave my cans alone as all my organic waste is in my compost pit.
That’s funny. Where I am the coons, crows, and if you’re mountainous enough or at the edge of town enough, then the bears will all tear your garbage apart. My neighbours always put their garbage out the night before and then at the same time I’m putting my garbage out in the morning they’re out shoveling it back into their bins because the animals got it. Every time. It baffles me that they don’t change their habits
