Felicia Cruz on the Net

Something everyone has to deal with is trash. Almost everyone has some method of disposing of the packaging, empty containers and no longer useful items that accumulate in your household. I have used a lot of different disposal methods, depending upon where I lived and what services were provided.

When I lived in my first apartment, we had to take our bags of trash to a dumpster that was parked in the back parking lot of the whole complex. The dumpster was hauled away and replaced with an empty one about once a week, so depending on what day you drove down to the dumpster area, you would toss your bag into a huge empty bin or throw it up on a huge pile of other people’s trash because the bin was overflowing.

Now I put a large plastic dumpster that was provided by my trash collection company at the curb once a week. They send a big trash collection truck and a couple of men around my neighborhood every Thursday morning. So I push my dumpster up the driveway and park it on the curb on Wednesday nights before I go to bed.

Sometimes I forget to push the dumpster up there on Wednesday, but I usually still have plenty of time to get it up there on Thursday morning. I just like to get it done early and not have to worry about it on Thursdays. But this morning I discovered that overnight someone had gone through my trash! That is just unfathomable to me!

Who would go walking around my neighborhood rooting through people’s trash cans? What are they looking for and what did they take from my trash? I am totally freaked out about this. But what do you do? Call the police and complain that someone stole your trash? Yeah, right.