# Why leave trash on your front lawn?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-leave-trash-on-your-front-lawn/912721>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 24, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-leave-trash-on-your-front-lawn/912721 "2020-06-24T13:12:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-leave-trash-on-your-front-lawn/912721/21 "2020-06-25T19:16:55Z")

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> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> My wife and I are likely anal about keeping our house looking nice. We do it mainly for ourselves, but also so our neighbors and anyone walking/driving by will have something pleasant to look at.

We keep our yard looking nice purely for our own pleasure. In a rural setting, the last home of three on a private lane. Practically nobody sees our property but us.

The last few days I’ve gotten home from work around 2 and made a trip with my trailer to get a yard of mulch. My gf has been stopping work (WFH) at 5 to spread the mulch while I’ve been clearing brush in a corner of a pasture.

Then, from 7-9 we sit on the porch or patio, eating dinner and drinking wine, enjoying the view.

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-leave-trash-on-your-front-lawn/912721/22 "2020-06-26T00:29:15Z")

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> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> I guess I just don’t understand why someone would put as much money into their house as these folk have, and then be content to just leave trash on the lawn.

Where would you expect them to put their trash, inside their garage? Do you want to store trash in your garage if you put as much money into their house as these folk have? I do get a kick about those people who assume that we should not have trash.

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-leave-trash-on-your-front-lawn/912721/23 "2020-06-26T00:31:44Z")

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Maybe in the bins - wherever they keep them other than trash day. Like everyone else.

Either you or I are seriously missing something.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-leave-trash-on-your-front-lawn/912721/24 "2020-06-26T01:44:52Z")

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In our countrified part of the world in which recycling is a foreign concept, you could probably play polo with whiskey bottles while riding naked on mules, without violating any ordinances or local customs.

I don’t however see trash on people’s lawns or overflowing bins at the curb.

\*we ain’t got none of them HOAs neither.

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