Our HOA rented dumpsters this weekend and we were able to get rid of a load of stuff. An old plastic pool, broken vacuum, wood pieces from blown down fence, concrete blocks with broken fence posts, a bucket of rocks, two old garbage cans - all gone into the dumpsters. The HOA rented a couple but just like last time, they filled up overnight and this was before they even unlocked them so people had to climb up and throw stuff over the top. They ordered more to come but decided to padlock them when they arrived and wait until 5:30pm to unlock them to give everyone a fair chance to put their junk in them.

I was able to get most of my junk in after the dumpster arrived but before the HOA president padlocked it. It was like a little game with my neighbours - who could dump the most stuff before they padlocked the dumpster. It was raining and there was an actual lightning storm (I have never seen lightning streak across the sky in the 8 years I have lived here!) so we were wondering if we would get hit by lightening while standing in the big metal dumpster.

One neighbour complained that there were too many wood fence pickets in the dumpster and concluded it must have been the people on the corner who did it. Well, it was, but not the corner she meant - it was ME! I just nodded in agreement while wondering WTF she was even complaining about it. It is a friggin dumpster for getting rid of junk!

Anyway, I wonder how much junk we can accumulate over the next two years at which time the HOA will rent dumpsters again. And really, we used 1-800-GOT-JUNK last year to get rid of our old grill, a wood pile, old kitchen sink and some other crap so all the stuff today was just from this past year! Scary!