Rubbish Amnesty

This is a fourteen storey condo building and the other tower has a dozen floors. That's a lot of apartments, quite a few people, and a huge source of junk. For the first time, the council sponsored a get-rid-of-junk day. Generally, it's against the rules to dispose of furniture, appliances, or large items in the garbage room. Yet, today the condo arranged for a special place to bring those type of items. It was a great time to get rid of an old wicker bookshelf and a coat rack.

While in the cleaning mood, we went further. Over the years, we'd always returned from vacations with maps and brochures which we didn't part with. That meant there was a 1993 tourist calendar from Indonesia. We had Thai What's On magazines from the 1980's. There were maps from India, Turkey, Kenya and other places we'd travelled. We decided that old in-flight magazines aren't really crucial to keep. All in all, we threw away about twenty-eight pounds of unnecessary paper in bags and boxes.

During the second trip down the stairs, we discovered that somebody had already carted off the bookshelf. I guess the designated area ended up being more of a swap meet than disposal area. Aren't people funny?