Moving question

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

I know that somerville is more lax and trash and items on sidewalks this weekend, but how soon is too soon to start putting trash out? I have a ton!

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[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Monday's a holiday, so if your normal trash pickup is Sunday, this weekend it'll be Monday.

Our landlord (see my earlier post...) has demanded that we return on Monday evening to put the trash out, and threatens to fine us large amounts of money if we don't. Or if we put it out early. As it happens, we're just moving a few streets away, so we'll be able to do it, but our upstairs neighbors are going to Ireland. What we'd do if we were also moving out of town, I don't know. God, I hate her so much.

[thedoubleduches.livejournal.com]

If you do start putting it out early, please don't block the entire sidewalk! As you may well know, it is super-annoying for pedestrians and neighbors. :)

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

It may also get the fire department called on you for creating a hazard. And landlords get really upset when the fire department calls them about such things; I believe there are fines involved.

The people who lived in the apartment above ours did this one year - but all the apartments were moving out at the same time, so of course our landlady came to -us- to clean it up, since the offenders, who had thrown everything - and I mean -everything-, it looked like the entire contents of their apartment - onto the sidewalk from their second floor balcony, had already vanished from the premises. It was one of the neighbors who made the call to fire department.

[dearsweetbriar.livejournal.com]

Sheesh -- and to think I usually just shove the trash cans out of my way and into their lawn on my way to work...

Just kidding, although I've always *really* wanted to. One of my neighbors is a repeat offender, and they're homeowners; no one rents in that house. You'd think if anyone had any sense of common decency it would be people who own. Poor firefighters. Those have to be some of the more idiotic runs they make, but since it happens every week on my block, I might have to resort to this.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Maybe they feel that since they own, they can treat everything in front of their house as theirs, too? Thoughtful.

The sidewalk in front of our place was literally buried, except for a path directly from our porch to the road. The entire length of the sidewalk in front of the house was covered with the other apartment's junk, a lot of it in perfectly fine shape (I trashpicked a toaster oven!) - or would have been in good shape, had they not ALSO thrown bottles of booze in the pile as well, which totally soaked the multiple bags of clothing, etc. It was pretty bad. Our landlady's husband came with his pickup, and he and one of my roommates loaded up the trash so the landlady (and therefore us) wouldn't get fined. I hope she didn't return the deposit to the renters of that apartment.

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I better just throw it in the middle of the street ;-)

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

I believe the usual rule is "not before 4pm the preceding day".

[dearsweetbriar.livejournal.com]

I remember reading somewhere that it was "not before 7PM the preceding day."

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's after 4pm. (otherwise little old ladies might have to take the trash out in the dark in the winter! That would be terrible.)

You must bring the barrels in before 7pm on trash day.

[dearsweetbriar.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, not only are you absolutely right, but I was thinking of something else entirely, and that is that you're technically not allowed to leave it on the curb *after* 7:00 AM on the day of pickup.

The reason 7:00 stuck in my head was because for the most part, I'm a degenerate who doesn't put out her trash until she leaves for work on pick-up day...much later than 7:00 AM.

Whoops.

So between 4:00 PM and 7:00 AM. (Not that this has ever stopped me, and thank goodness my trash is always picked up with no problems :)

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that 7am time is so that if the truck comes down your street at 7:01am and your trash doesn't get picked up because you haven't put it out yet it's your fault not the trash collectors.

[dearsweetbriar.livejournal.com]

Well yeah...

Obviously.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

But if it's after 7 AM and you can see that your neighbors' trash wasn't picked up yet, why does it matter if you put yours out? And how could they catch you in any case?

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

http://www.somervillema.gov/spotlight.cfm?id=7

4pm.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

There will be lots of trash out on the sidewalks starting tonight.

So if you mean "when will everyone else be doing it?" the answer is, starting today.