roadfix
Chef Extraordinaire
I think GD's, DW's, and TC's are just an American thing. The rest of the world does fine without them...
I have a disposal, but most of its "food" is whatever I rinse from the dishes after the bulky stuff goes into the garbage can. We don't have a compost pile because there isn't a convenient place to put it...and I'm too lazy to bother with it anyway,
This is us just about 100%. Disposal in the small side of the double sink, gets small scraps and stuff that rinses off dishes and pans. Bulky scraps just go in the trash. We got in the habit just scraping it all into the trash when we lived in the Bahamas without a disposal for 2½ years.
Miley, our rescue mutt, gets a few bits of meat occasionally, but we are selective about that because we don't want him to get fat, and when they live on table scraps, they always seem to gain weight. Miley has weighed right at 40 pounds since he reached full size, and that hasn't changed in 3 years. The same was true of our previous baby. He was locked in at a trim and active 50 pounds his whole life, and passed at just shy of 15 years.
We don't garden enough to warrant hassling with compost. Easier to just get some for free each spring when the brothers who rent my father-in-law's land dump a pile of composted feed lot manure (we have cattle feed lots all over the countryside around here) in the corner of one field to spread for fertilizer. We just ask and they say sure, so we take about 20-30 gallons of that for our small veggie garden. Takes about 1/2 hour to fetch and spread, then my brother-in-law comes by a few days later with his rototiller and turns it in.
You must’ve gone to some really strict college, or had more sense than I did in those days, if keeping a hamster or rescuing a dog were the biggest no-nos you took part in! I’m betting it’s the latter.RR, when I was in college, I had a hamster. My dorm room-mate was cool with it, and that hamster was well known around the dorm, and well loved. It was a coed dorm, and the women loved that hamster. He would escape now and then, but people would find him and bring him back, because everyone knew who owned it. I had a pretty elaborate Habitrail setup for the hamster, and we never got caught having a pet. Not sure how we got away with it -- for two years.
We also had a dog for a while... a stray we adopted. We found a good home for the dog, but we had a dog living in our dorm room for about three weeks. I can't believe we got away with that. It was a German Shepherd. Not an easy dog to hide. We named him Fred.
CD
I think GD's, DW's, and TC's are just an American thing. The rest of the world does fine without them...
Until you get to pay as you throw, where you pay by the bag.TC = Trash Compactors (if you were wondering)
I never really understood TC's for residential use.
Our first home came with one and we used it but there was no need for compacting as we had a 90 gallon city trash bin which was plenty large enough for a week's worth of trash.
Ah..that makes sense...Until you get to pay as you throw, where you pay by the bag.