Yep - that’s what we do. I’ve insisted on it. We haven’t experienced a “twisty buried in a sammich stabbing our gums with wire” since we started this practice. Although it was somewhat difficult to train the other 2U’s - Mr2U had a “thing” for those plastic square seal the bag thingies, and everytime Mini2U would try to remove them, the bag would rip. Because he’s was a child at the time. He’s 13 now, and has informed me that he is no longer a “child”. But I digress.
I do. If the bags aren’t closed, they won’t be picked up. My city has a “pay as you throw” program, so we have to buy special bags at $1.10 per. These bags are considerably thicker than your run-of-the-mill bag, so they’re practically impossible to knot if they’re more than half full – at $1.10 per bag, I make sure it’s as full as I can get it.
neutron star, your illustrations crack me up! The top picture looks like a “Mad” magazine artist’s rendition of a stomach.
Boy that’s rough.
I feel spoiled rotten: two pickup days per week, they take anything short of dead bodies. I even put out construction debris in nice 50lb bundles and it evaporates while I am at work.
Of course I suspect that NJ property tax is about five times GA property tax, so maybe the buck-ten is a deal after all.
Oh, and add me to the list of folks who follow Kalhoun’s bread wrapping technique. It’s so much faster and easier than putting that silly clippy thing back on.
[indignant hijack]I pay $13+ a month and usually generate less than one full bag a week.[/indignant hijack]
I use twisty ties only when the bag is very full.
I usually use them, just because they come with the bags and I want to use them up. That said, being single and living alone, I don’t use large garbage bags very often anyway.
[hijack] neutron star, like minor7flat5, I am in stitches over your illustrations! I nominate you to be the official SDMB illustrator. Many a confusing thread would benefit from such a diagram.
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My city has a pay-as-you-throw program too, but it’s calculated by the size of the bin that you get from the city. I’ve been trying to get them to give me a smaller bin because I surely don’t use up all that bin space and I’m sick of my neighbors who keep dumping their trash into my bin because they generate way more trash than their bin allows them to. But that’s another issue…
I don’t buy trashbags. For trash, I use a paper sack from the grocery store lined with a plastic bag (sometimes reused if not “contaminated” and just a plain paper sack for the recyclables.
I do that. Depending on how much bread is in the bad, though. If it’s too full, it won’t have enough excess bag to spin good enough to keep out the air. Unfortunately, other members of the family don’t bother to spin the bag, they kinda just leave it open and the bread gets stale quicker. Grrr.
And normally, we buy the drawstring bags or bags with handles, but when we do buy the bags with twist ties, we never use them. We did for a while, but it never did work right, so we’d just tie the top of the bag.
Thanks. I have way too much spare time lately and not enough to fill it with. Also, I have drugs.
I did something similar in this bizarre, intentionally confusing, parody Pit thread.
Official SDMB Illustrator for Confusing Concepts would be a fun job, although my MS Paint, 15-minute, crap-drawings do make even 'ol Sluggo’s illustrations look like Rembrandts.
Minor7 Flat5 said, “Oh, and add me to the list of folks who follow Kalhoun’s bread wrapping technique. It’s so much faster and easier than putting that silly clippy thing back on.”
See, I tried to teach this to my dad, but he actually RECOILED when I demonstrated the technique. He’s so hung up on the wire twisty thingy and the flat plastic clippy thingy (if anyone can come up with the “technical” names for these devices, you will be a genius in my mind forever). Also, he’s a serious neat-nik. I think this has everything to do with it.
