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!

Comments

[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?