the answer is: Copy the neighbors.
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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 also live in a tourist town. Theres a private company that picks up garbage, but you set the day of the week. Most of the STR caretakers either set theirs for like Tuesday (which tends to be changeover day) or do it themselves, and almost every house has a little wooden hutch that people punched trash in to be collected/ take themselves. There is no putting the bin on the curb to be colected though- they trash co always empty the hutch for people.
Every once in a while, you'll drive through a block, and one random person will have put out their bin for whatever reason, and the whole neighbor hood will have copied them.
Tbe phenomenon has its own little Facebook group for locals to share when it happens.
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.
Someone has to be the neighbor everyone copies.
Copy the binfluencer.
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.
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.
Double it and give to neighbor
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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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.
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
I just have a fortnightly recurring entry in my calendar for the recycling bin.
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.
Hard mode - yesterday was a bank holiday.
"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
Just look at the phase of the moon, like a normal dog-person.
Doesn't matter, I live in an 'apartment', there's a dumpster.
... you people all have houses?
Must be old, or lucky.
I just get notified by the smart home that the bin should be out (but isn't yet). Nu clue what is on what days
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.
Live in an apartment: you don't have to think about it.
Though I can't say how it works everywhere, but here in Sweden all apartment buildings have trash rooms or separate "houses" with bins for everything (food waste, plastics, metal, glass etc). And many have areas of those rooms, or separate rooms, for leaving stuff that isn't broken so others can take what's there. About half my furniture, electronics and other random stuff are from those. I often check mine and the one where my mom lives and have a friend group chat for sharing what we find and don't want ourselves. It's also pretty common to collect stuff there and transport it to places where it's given to people in need, stuff like clothing, entertainment (books, board games, dvds etc.), kitchen ware and so on.
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