Taking out the Big Trash

Today is a holiday. But it is not affecting trash pickup tomorrow. I planned to put out Little Kat's old Casper mattress on the curb. He checked with our county's trash rules. They should pick it up it we have the mattress covered. Little Kat purchased a cheap $5 kind/queen mattress cover from Amazon.

We had stored the mattress in our carport. Today I took out the trash cans by myself to prop up the mattress on the curb. Oops. There was still snow piled there from the street plowing. Luckily, it was somewhat warm. And it had rained. So, I just had to shovel a lot of ice/snow.

I called up Little Kat and my brother. We dragged the mattress to the curb. Made sure the plastic cover had the whole mattress protected. I later put some tape to keep the cover on. I also put 2 signs on the mattress with TRASH labels. I had to adjust a light trash can on one side, so the mattress did not topple the can.

Finally I bent the large new Casper mattress box and stuffed it half way into the recyclables container. Let's hope the collection people come and take everything away tomorrow. Sure beats hauling everything to the dump, which is in our county, but very far away.