What would I learn by digging through your trash?

That I live a fulfilling but boring life.

Not a whole lot of our trash goes to the street. We recycle everything here except food garbage. It wouldn’t be a very pleasant hunt. All our bill stubs & personal papers get burnt. You wouldn’t learn much here.

You would learn that we have pizza a lot.

You would find out what happens when an avocado sits unnoticed in the pantry too long.
Hint: the smell is not pleasant.

That I get more damn junk mail than anyone I know. Mostly porn and prostate pill ads as well as homeopathic garbage and vitamin adverts. You won’t learn anything important, because the important stuff goes through the shredder. Oh yeah, and enjoy the fruit peels, coffee grounds, and other stinky kitchen waste. Wear gloves and a gas mask.

That I drink too much, mostly Carling Lager and cheap Rose Wine ;-)

You would learn that we recycle, that we’ve gotten many toys lately, that we read many different magazines, that we compost.

@SuperMouse I have a potato that sat in the potato bin for too long. It didn’t rot, but it did mummify. Pretty neat actually. Doesn’t smell, and most people think it is a rock.

That I really like dairy. That one of my roommates eats enough junk food for all three of us. That we get asked for money a lot.

Very little. I recycle and compost. I burn the non-color papers and I bring used plastic bags to supermarket. I no longer have a paper trail for banking, billing, and shopping. I throw the used litter on the poison ivy in my fields. I give used clothes to the Salvation Army. I leave the clam shell packaging at the check-out counter when I shop.

You’d find that I drink skim milk and organic Concord Grape Juice, eat lots of local, unsprayed berries at this time of year, and use some vitamin supplements.

That I own cats and that I really enjoy ice cream.

You would probably pass out from the smell before you even got past the first can. We have a designated poopy diaper trashcan outside and it is not pleasant when you have to throw something in there.

You’d think that I run a dog kennel, but you’d be wrong. I tend a public trash can out by the sidewalk bordering our house. Ever dog walker in the neighborhood uses it as the final resting place of their pooch’s metabolic waste. When I empty it into our own trash can each week, it contains hundreds of little bags of dog poop, and little else.

I drink alot of Coffee, Mich Ultra & Diet Mt Dew. That my cat DEMANDS a clean litterbox more than daily. We get a lot of junk mail with stupid-coupons. You know they kind for furniture stores, tanning salons that no one goes to,,,

The big one…..we rarely eat our leftovers. Lots of “What the hell was that?” is tossed~

that i eat too much ramen. and drink too much tea.

That I often use Kleenex as napkins.

right now…that I’ve just today cleaned out all my old jarred produce from my fridge you the ones that say once opened, use within 2 weeks and such like; well, also…that I couldn’t be bothered to empty all those jars of their food, wash them up and recycle them….

That I’ve been going through my attic lately and some things I have aren’t even worthy of Goodwill. Please feel free to take anything you like.

I drink a lot of tea and eat a lot of eggs, potatoes and too many lemons. At least that’s what you think today (I just had friends over and made a tonne of lemonade). You’d also think I smoke because of the cigarette butts, but once again it was a friend who came over last Saturday and smoked on the balcony. And he drank lots of beer, which I never touch. You also wouldn’t see any milk, juice or cornflakes, because I recycle paper and throw those packs individually somewhere else, with lots of A4 pages full of charts, tests, legal documents and other photocopies, as well as game maps and various designs.

So my trash would actually be very misleading.

You’d learn how long it takes the cops to respond.

You’d learn that I just went grocery shopping, I go through a lot of batteries haha and eat a lot of tootsie rolls :)

You would learn that I eat WAY too many snacks and blow my nose too much haha.

Not much. We recycle and compost.

I shred and burn the juicy stuff. So we, as a family of four, throw out one kitchen bag of garbage a week including 14 pullups.

that I am fat

You would learn that my trash cans reside on the South-side of my house; where the Summer sun is beating on them all day; thus boiling the trash inside. Not a pleasant smell.

Luckily most food gets ground up in the disposall. Also, clothes and toys go to the Salvation Army; comic books go to the Boys Club.

You’d learn that I like soda and that i collect alot of posters and stickers :P
Ohh and just like @Alleycat8782 I blow my nose alot :P

You would learn what the barrel of a mossberg pump action 12 gauge shotgun looks like up close.

You would learn i am clearly a stoner.

You would learn very little. I shred everything that has my name and address on it and many other things get recycled. All in all, it’s pretty boring in my trash receptacle.

Paper history is taken to work and shredded so that just leaves personal refuse. A few banana peels, yogurt cups and cans of evaporated milk along with cotton swabs and lotion bottles.

You would probably be overwhelmed by the amount of tissues I go through, who knows, you might be able to surmise from the quantity that I suffer completely untreated allergies, and probably wouldn’t get much further.

you would learn that one can never have too many cats, but one can definitely have too many litter trays.