Sunday, September 6, 2009
Grass Clippings
Cliff and I let the grass go for a few weeks. I think the yard liked it. We had one of the greenest yards in the neighborhood. However, eventually it was just too much of an embarrassment to let it go any further. We finally mowed it. And then, to add insult to injury, we had to rake it because we had let it get so overgrown. We filled 5 big black trash bags with grass clippings. The problem then was we couldn't put them all into our trash can. It was going to take us a month to send them out one at a time with our regular garbage pickup. So I convinced Cliff to leave them sitting by the curb. I told him I would put an ad on Craigslist and get someone to pick them up for composting. Cliff had no faith at all that anyone would want our bags of grass. There's nothing I like more than to prove Cliff wrong. I posted the ad last night, today I had three e-mail replies; by this afternoon the 5 bags were gone. It's been a very good day!
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You're such a maniac! I would never have thought to list grass clippings on craigslist.
I listed my tree stakes on Craigs list. There was no interest.
It might be a San Antonio phenomenon - Right now we're having the big stuff pickup in our neighborhood. People put carpet, non-working appliances, tree limbs, etc. on the curb and it's picked up a week or so later. Only pickup trucks drive through the neighborhood sorting through the piles and half of it is carted off by them. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy - recycling in its normal habitat.
I'm so impressed! Brilliant problem-solving!
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