Did anyone here have a garbage pail?

[Swimmer]

Remember the garbage pail near the side door of the house, or just out in the yard someplace. Put your unedible leftovers in it and the garbage truck came by once a week and emptied the GD thing. Then once a freikin month someone in the household had to clean it. Man that was a disgusting job. I can't be the only here to have had the honor of cleaning the bucket.

[Slipknot]

ours was in the ground behind the porch
I remember the guy would come once a week in a smaller garbage truck to empty it, the dog would bark like hell at him. I never knew where it went or what they did with it, I don't think I want to know
that was a loooong time ago 70's

now it all goes in the trash

I remember burning our trash in the backyard also, I guess I'm old now

[BigBo]

My gag reflexes are working right now just bringing back those memories. How the hell did the guy who drove the truck to pick up the contents once a week keep doing that job? Free food for the pigs on Thatcher St or in B'water? You could smell him coming a couple of blocks away.

[FishermanTim]

I have a composte bucket on the back porch.
When it gets full, I bring out to the compost pile, dig a hole and empty it. Bury the stinky goodnes and let th worms and microbes do their thing.
The stink can be strong, but the garden will benefit in the end.
The best thing is that NO ONE will touch it because of the stink.

[Gloucester2]

We used to hide our beer in it

[striprman]

Living in Foxborough as a kid, before the Patriots, Bass pro Shop and all the other "progress" that has taken place there, yes I remember the garbage man. I also remember my friend Al and his grandfather who ran the town pig farm on Willis Lane. We had many fun afternoons riding the tractor, chasing the hogs and chickens round, breaking a few eggs and doing "kid" stuff on the old farm.

[striprman]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

I remember burning our trash in the backyard also, I guess I'm old now

55 gallon drum that had "pick axe" holes punched in it, up on cinder blocks.

[MAC]

We had one when I was younger. It was never sunk in the ground, just placed on the ground near the corner of the deck. It was a concrete one with the steel lid.

If I remember right the garbage man was a pig farmer and used it as slop.

[justplugit]

Just loss my appetite for pork chops, Mac.

[Raven]

but the garbage man who had the double rows of barrels in the back of his
pickup truck was also the local hog farmer who fed all of your stinky garbage to his hogs that he got paid to collect then he turned around and sold you his bacon.he was actually one fart smeller. i mean smart fella,

[Slingah]

we had one too....in the ground...step on lid kind....I can see it now..
when garbage was garbage
and rubbish was rubbish...
I'm old too I guess Bruce...

[Bigcat]

I think the big swine flu epidemic put an end to the garbage man?

[Backbeach Jake]

I have a plastic barrel with a lid to put bags in between dump/transferstation runs. We had the oil drum pick-axed when I was a kid. I thrwe a 3/8 steel rod through it as a kid, like a spear. Dad thought that someone shot it, I asked why someone would want to kill our trash barrel. He gave me the Dad -look...

[ProfessorM]

I can remember hitting the thing with the lawn mower. I compost all my garbage and have for the last 15 years. Makes great soil when mixed with the fallen leaves, besides our dump, or should I call it a recycle center, charges for anything not able to be recycled. Thank god for the dumpster at work.

[chris L]

I was a garbage man after the can came above ground and the pickup was cleaner , now im the garbage man at yale university

[Smokey14]

We had one till my brother put a 1/4 stick in it and blew the lid on to the roof and blew the bottom out. there was banana peals and eggshells all over the side of the house. Dad was pissed.

[gone fishin]

I had one also - the pig farmer would collect the garbage once a week. I remember one time we threw watermellon rind in it and the maggots bloosomed - the damn things were crawling up the foundation and on the porch. I had a great mutt at the time and they drove him nuts. Yep - you had to clean the bucket often during the summer.

[blue oyster]

i still have the lid that you step on to open in the breeze way at my house

[Clueless]

Originally Posted by Slingah

we had one too....in the ground...step on lid kind....

We had the same kind when I was a kid. I remember my Dad having a nutty when the local racoons would come in pairs to dine. One opened it and one pulled all the "stuff" out of it. Dad would start flashing the porch lights and then if that didn't work, he'd throw whatever was available at 'em.