O/T Some marital bliss advice please.

So, we have a two segment garbage bin. Which side does the trash go on, and which side does the recycling go on?

We have had it one way for 2.5 years, and now, "someone" has switched it.

So, very carefully pick the sides, Left or Right, for trash and for recycling. Please. Our connubial bliss may ride on your answers.

Now for the exciting part of my day. I flew out of bed due to a crashing sound that shook the walls. Out of the corner of my eye I see the closet door come to a stop mostly closed. I throw on some pants and head the 5 steps to the closet to investigate. I cant open the door. Why one may ask? After several minutes of shoving things out of the way with a broom through about 2inches of open door space...I enter our walk in close. That looks like a nuclear explosion whent off in a hot chick's clothing boutique.

The wire framed shelf pulled out of the wall and deposited countless $$$$$$$ of beautiful clothing 3ft deep (not exagerating) on top of countless pairs of shoes and any number of beautiful purses/bags.

So.... once I excavated the closet floor to assess the carnage...... Whoever installed the shelf did not anchor the Rt side to anything so... all of the weight of the hanging clothing and heaven only knows how many purses, shoes, and accessories on the shelf was secured only on the L side and to the wall by small plastic clips on the back. Disaster ensued once my fashionista bride got all of her wardrobe moved in over hte past couple of years and a number of trips to transfer her stuff from TX to NV.

So, off of to Home Depot and Harbor Freight to get my home repair he-man game on. Why pass up a chance to buy some I'll only use them once power tools? I just got rid of all of that stuff that had not been used in decades... now..... I have to buy some of it again. Of course I could just call the land lord but.... That might take a few days... so.... I'll just do it myself.

I hate doing this kind of crap... but.... it is actually a change of pace from job search and watching Hallmark movies and documentaries. So, oddly, I am looking forward to it.

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You've got me on the

You've got me on the recycling sides, since this backward town here doesn't have recycling. Good luck with the DIY! You might be in the only place around that doesn't have ice right now!

Another disaster

We had a disaster yesterday, too. It's so cold here and my hands get so cold that I've been heating up one of those Bed Buddies in the microwave to warm them. Yesterday, I had it in there too long cuz all of a sudden the smoke alarm started blaring and the kitchen was filled with smoke. We got it out of there, turned on the exhaust fan and opened a window. It still smells a little smoky in here.

Could have been much worse and I'm thankful. Solution to problem: gloves with the right index finger cut out so I can still type and scroll.

The moon must be in the right position for household accidents. Lol.

You get gloves here that are

You get gloves here that are intact but have a soft circle of I know not what on the tip of the right index finger for the same purpose. I've never tried mainly because Im a lefty but they're very popular.

DoD

Depends on dishwasher. Dishwasher is to the right of my sink. So garbage is on the right. So that I can have the left cupboard door open to the compost bin. Scrape dishes into the bin, pivot to put into dishwasher. If I switched them, the compost bin (a swing-out bin attached to the door) would open against the dishwasher and I'd have to scrape, lift over the door, and put in dishwasher. Bad flow.

The recycling? Not in the kitchen! In the hallway next to the outside door. Hanging on the wall, top bin for glass and plastics, bottom (taller) bin for bulky paper and cardboard. It is a beautiful picture of efficiency and organization. DH installed them for me and I sainted him that day. I do love a well organized recycling zone!

Give her the power over recycling choices. A little control in the kitchen means less need to control elsewhere...like organizing your tools bench on you!

I say garbage on the right,

I say garbage on the right, recycling on the left.

Mom agrees

I checked with my Mom, she agrees. Garbage right, recycle left

So, I am wrong....

She changed it to Garbage on the R. Trash on the R, Recycling on the left. Why one might ask..... Alphabetical order. R (Recycling) comes before T (Trash). My brain said, R, Recycling, Right. Kind of like the chains on a ceiling fan/light install. L, Light, Long & S, Speed, Short.

Chick brains.... and .... the constant need to reorganize.

We moved the two segment bin to our laundry room. We got a coffee cabinet for her coffee junky problem and 3 coffee machines that displaced the bin. I will adapt.... but I did consider a drawn out teasing battle flipping the bin around periodically .... just for shits and giggles.

Now for the project. $168 later I have metal brackets, hardware, a drill, & bits and a hack saw. I got rid of all of that when we sold our house and put the rest of our stuff in storage. We rent so I never intended on owning them again.

The best laid plans of mice and men.....

It might be that the new

It might be that the new layout just works better for her workflow.. a shorter reach to toss the trash or recycleables.

Don't have that problem

Don't have that problem. I have one bin In the kitchen for everything that can't be recycled or composted. The recycling things go into a large box in the cellar until DH gets sick of looking at them and takes them to their doom at the recycle point.

Composting became obligatory on 1st January here this year and the association responsible for the trash gave everyone who wanted one a free wooden (blends in well in the garden) composter. So I got a new one - a wild boar ripped my old one (obtained in the same way 20years ago) to bits looking for food a while ago. There's a composter or a compost bin at the recycle point for anyone who doesn't have a garden or a compost solution for their home.

And that, ladies and gents, is your daily dose of useless information.

Our county has single stream

Our county has single stream garbage.. sorting out is done at the end repository. We have "a" trash can... everything goes. My dad's area stopped accepting recycle glass.. too expensive for them to deal with.

Not exactly composting... but

Not exactly composting... but.... interesting and somewhat related.

I interviewed with a company a few years ago that is a 99+% burn, energy from waste refuse model.

How brilliant.

They get paid to take their fuel, they run all of the garbage through a magnetic belt system that pulls ferrous metals out of it which they sell, everything else burns, millions of cubic yards of garbage every day is burned to fire the boilers that then turn steam turbins to generate electricity. Ash comes out of the furnace and all non ferrous metals and glass are screened out of the ash and sold. The only byproducts are steam and ash. The water vapor that goes out the stacks is hydro vortex filtered which removes all particulates. In lieu of countless cubic meters of garbage going to land fills, only a small amount of ash is disposed of in land fills.

So revenu when people pay to give the company the fuel, revenue for recycled ferrous metals, revenue for recycled nonferrous metals, revenue for selling electrons. Nearly zero emissions.

Warning warning

I've worked in a company that went big into constructing energy from waste plants. The company is no more as it lost huge amounts of money as the construction of the plants is tricky!!!!!! The tech sounds great but it is hard to get it to work properly.

On home recycling ours is left for recycling and right for garbage but that is because our left section of the split bin is bigger than the right and we have more recycling.

Our area is rolling out composting but it hasn't reached my street yet. I'm not sure how they'll manage it since the currently collect our rubbish three times a week. (I know I'm beyond lucky).

Thanks Aniki.