Trash Day!

[dragonrider]

I want worms. I threw a cup of nightcrawlers in my compost heap this summer. I wonder if they stayed?

Composting worms are the little red worms. The nightcrawlers and the brown or gray earthworms do not work for worm bin composting --- they may be good for the garden, but not for dedicated worm bin composting. Red worms can live in an environment that is nearly 100% organic matter, like compost or even manure, while the other kinds need to live in soil. Earthworms and nightcrawlers do eat organic matter, but they live in soil. Sometimes you can find red worms living in old compost piles, or in old manure piles. If you want to start a dedicated worm composting bin, they say it is usually best to actually buy the worms from a worm farm, otherwise you might bring in other undesireable organisms with "wild" worms. If you just want worms in your regular compost pile, wild worms are fine, and they will probably find their way there on their own. I bought my worms from a local worm farm.

dragonrider Reviewed by dragonrider on 11-02-2007. Trash Day! It's Thursday, and Thursday is Trash Day at the Stinky Shack. I LOVE trash day for reasons both symbolic and practical. The practical is that I'm not tripping over recycling any more. The symbolics is clearing out the clutter from my life in general, not just what's piled in the kitchen. One of my goals this year is de-cluttering my life. I'm a disorganized person, and smoking makes me even more so. I get creative and try to build things or make little projects, and this always results in Rating: 5

[dragonrider]

I like getting rid of stuff almost as much as I like getting stuff. It's great when you can purge something out of your space that you don't use or want, especially if you can find someone else who wants it. I hate having useless crap and clutter pile up. If you haven't used someting in a year, you don't need it.

Our trash pickup is on Monday, so Sunday night is "Garbage Night," which is celebrated in song:

Garbage Night!
La-la! La-la! La-la!-la! La! La-la!
Garbage Night!
La-la! La-la! La-la!-la! La! La-la!
Garbage Night! Garbage Night!
La! La-la! La-la-la! La! La-la!

It's much better when you actually hear it...much better...

[MadSativa]

I wish their was like a dead body trash day, or eliminate political rubish day, it would Clean the clutter and stop smellin like bullshit so much.

[dragonrider]

I wish their was like a dead body trash day, or eliminate political rubish day, it would Clean the clutter and stop smellin like bullshit so much.

Dead bodies go in the compost pile, and political rubbish goes to the toxic waste drop-off iste...

[dragonrider]

The only thing better than getting rid of stuff you don't need is getting stuff you want for free. I got a big load of free mulch today.

I smoked a bowl and went out for a very stoned walk this morning. On the way home I passed by a house that was getting some trees pruned, and they were running the limbs through a huge chipper. This thing was awesome! It would just take hold of the end of a branch and pull it through the machine and blow it out the other side as mulch. I asked the guy if I could have some, and he said it would be fine. So I loaded up the truck with some buckets, bins and wheel barrows and went and got as much as I could take. Some of it was still not shredded enough, so I sent most of it through my own chipper. Then I spread the chips along a new fence in my back yard where there is a lot of disturbed earth just waitng for new weeds to sprout. I put about 4-6 inches on top of the bare dirt to prevent weeds. It will keep weeds from sprouting there next spring and will eventually break down to improve the soil. If I had ordered that much mulch delivered, it would have cost $50 for the mulch and $25 for delivery, but instead I got it for free and kept it from going to waste in the landfill. And I saved the landscaper money too, because he doesn't have to pay the dump fee for the stuff I took.

Some people, including my wife, think I am a crazy freakin' wierdo for asking random strangers for their shredded tree mulch, or the dead leaves off their lawn for my compost, or for going into Starbucks and asking for used coffee grounds for my garden, but I have already collected enough free compost and fertilizer this year that it would have cost me several hundred bucks to buy it all. I kept it out of the landfill and saved myself enough money to keep me in weed for a year. I'm a genius, not a freak. Right? Not a freak?