Help, I broke my broom...

[Olle]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

this will just collect dust in a drawer until my niece throws it away...

Well, why don't you throw it in the mail instead? PM sent.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Olle

Well, why don't you throw it in the mail instead?

You could just root through my garbage. I can't set anything metal on my curb without a scavenger snatching it up within five5 minutes...True!

I replaced my hot water heater a couple years back. Foam insulation was waterlogged; couldn't bump the tank up the basement stairs with it on. I chiseled it all off after removing the tin jacket and took the cast iron/steel [whatever] tank out to the curb. I went back down and got the tin jacket and took it up & out to the curb next to the...nothing...The curb was empty.

Since then, anything metal does not last more than an hour. Old wheels, brake discs, watering cans/garden tools, anything metal. Gone in Sixty Seconds. Like the movie.

[Olle]

That reminds me of how my Dad's buddy used to get rid of his garbage. He ran an electronics store, and a couple of times a year he spent a weekend cleaning the store and doing maintenance. When he was done, he put all the garbage in nice, crisp TV boxes, taped them up neatly and put them on his loading dock. It never failed, the boxes were always gone the next morning.