Trash pickup costs about $50 every three months, so I can save $200 a year by just scattering my trash beside the road on the way to work every morning.

Now, xoB... there are plenty of people who pay for trash removal, and their bins are helpfully located at the end of their driveways all night. If your stuff is bagged you don't even have to put it in the bin, just next to it.

Actually, if I was smart I'd just bag it up every day and take it to work and throw it in the dumpster. The little amount of trash I generate would easily fit in a plastic grocery bag.

But then the trash man couldn't pay his $3000 mortgage every month and his kids would have to drop out of college.

One day last summer I got an email from my neighbor across the street. She asked me if I had noticed the car parked on the street in front of my house the night before, which I had not. She said that while she was walking her dog in the morning she saw a used condom that had been tossed in the street, right where the car had been. She not only cleans up after her dog, she keeps the neighborhood clean!

They deserve evey penny they get paid.