the answer is: Copy the neighbors.
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Someone has to be the neighbor everyone copies.
Always copy the neighbors.
I live in a tourist town, and my side of the street is the incorporated city, while across the street is unincorporated county. As such, they have a different trash day, which is Thursdays, while mine is Friday. That said, my closest full time neighbors live 4 houses up the road around a bend in county, so I don't have day heads up usually.
Though I did remember today. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.
I'd invest in a calendar reminder every week. Probably your best bet.
Eh don't worry, I usually don't forget because my wife will go bananas
Neighbors house is 50/50 city / county.
He pays prorated split taxes to both but gets trash and recycling from both.
Lucky bastard.
That actually pretty handy
My whole area is like this. City and county services across the street from one another. Pensacola? :)
We have two trash services in competition. 🤷🏻 Wasteful, I know, but the competition keeps prices down and service up. Never had such solid trash service. :)
I was house sitting once and tried this... turns out the garbage system in that area is privatized and they all have different garbage days. Which is fucking insane imo.
Copy the binfluencer.
Double it and give to neighbor
"The weatherman said the word "snow" so now we won't be picking up this week. You'll have to wait until next week. Sorry, not sorry. Also, your quarterly payment is due and no, we're not going to give you a discount for the pickup that we missed." --Republic Sanitation
My city provides a handy ics file that we can import.
Our city offers email reminders the day before pickup, showing what items will be picked up that week.
Nice try. You will not geolocate me based on my bin day
Metadata kills!
Doesn't matter, I live in an 'apartment', there's a dumpster.
... you people all have houses?
Must be old, or lucky.
E. Never.
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Yestermorrow
It's tomorrow, but it's 4:30am tomorrow, So all the calendars show tomorrow, but if you put it out tomorrow, they'll already have come. Then every time there's a holiday and you look at the calendar to see if it's offset, you'll have to do that math, and you never do that math at a reasonable hour, only at 1:30am when you just showered and laid down in bed.
Hard mode - yesterday was a bank holiday.
Just look at the phase of the moon, like a normal dog-person.
Oh this post just reminded me to take the bins back in. Thanks.
I just get notified by the smart home that the bin should be out (but isn't yet). Nu clue what is on what days
Tuesday morning so put out on Monday night.
If we're talking holiday schedule I give up and just go to the website and look at the calendar. It's accurate!
You must live where there are few wild animals. Where I live that's a great way to have your trash strewn all across the road by morning.
I live in NJ. So while there are absolutely animals that would do that, just not here in this specific area. Deer don't really do that much. And the rabbits are a bit small for it. They just both eat gardens.
Bears and coons upset my neighbors’ cans, but they leave my cans alone as all my organic waste is in my compost pit.
That's funny. Where I am the coons, crows, and if you're mountainous enough or at the edge of town enough, then the bears will all tear your garbage apart. My neighbours always put their garbage out the night before and then at the same time I'm putting my garbage out in the morning they're out shoveling it back into their bins because the animals got it. Every time. It baffles me that they don't change their habits
Live in an apartment: you don't have to think about it.
Though I can't say how it works everywhere, but here in Sweden all apartment buildings have trash rooms or separate "houses" with bins for everything (food waste, plastics, metal, glass etc). And many have areas of those rooms, or separate rooms, for leaving stuff that isn't broken so others can take what's there. About half my furniture, electronics and other random stuff are from those. I often check mine and the one where my mom lives and have a friend group chat for sharing what we find and don't want ourselves. It's also pretty common to collect stuff there and transport it to places where it's given to people in need, stuff like clothing, entertainment (books, board games, dvds etc.), kitchen ware and so on.