What Do I Do With Five-Year-Old Trash?
I just got word last night that my beautiful 2001 Toyota Corolla (color according to the carmaker: “Lemon Mist“) will cost more than $10,000 to repair. In insurance lingo, this means my car is a “total loss.” For me, this means that I now have to go the mechanic shop on Michigan Avenue and clean out my car.
The mechanic said I have until Friday morning to complete this car cleaning. This task includes clearing out the dozen empty water bottles, piles of fading newspapers, and dozens of mixtapes. It also means carting away the giant trash bag in my trunk. This particular trash bag is filled with the refuse from my last car I junked five years ago.
I have never really looked inside that bag in all those years. I know there’s some good stuff in that bag: more mixtapes, a classic CD or three, a couple of t-shirts, special must-have papers, old batteries, and maybe a shoe.
Do I make a clean break and simply throw the entire bag out? Do I bother sifting through these five-year old artifacts?
Readers help me out with snarky jokes and helpful suggestions.
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November 21st, 2007 at 10:49 am
Put it on eBay as “Cherkisiana.”
November 21st, 2007 at 11:03 am
Throw the whole thing away without a second look. The risk of tetanus or an antibiotic-resistant staph infection is too high.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:48 am
I’d throw it all out with the exception of the empty cans and bottles, which I’d recycle. As an aside, all that junk in your car, year after year, adds needless weight that will reduce your gas milage and performance.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:53 am
when i moved back to dc, i had to decide what to do with this this wire in-box type basket that i had moved from DC, to VA and then to Florida. It contained papers that I “should do something with” like old health insurance policies and drafts of my Bar application. For one of my in-between-moves, i had put the whole thing in a plastic shopping bag so that nothing would fall out, and then put the whole thing in a hallway closet where it stayed for two years. I ended up just throwing the whole thing away, box and all. If i didn’t need anything in there for three years, there was a pretty solid case to be made that I never would.