Fall Cleaning

When we get work done on our house, we are lucky to have it done by friends and family. It's still professional work, but they don't necessarily do the "take away". Which means if they replace drywall in our basement, they don't always remove the old stuff.

My brothers-in-law did just that. Replaced the drywall and threw the old stuff out in our yard. Now, what the hell were we supposed to do with it?

Unfortunately, we left it there. Not thinking about it being on the lawn instead of on the cement patio just 2 feet away.

We got a dumpster on Saturday to get rid of that kind of thing, and things that the old owners of the house left here when they moved. (Besides just junk, there was probably 10 cans of stain, 3 buckets of dryway sealer and numerous cans of paint. That stuff went to "hazardous waste day" at the dump yesterday).

Believe me when I say that drywall left on your lawn will KILL anything under it. All that is left is dirt. (Oh, and bugs). And the drywall crumbles. Good luck getting it all up.

We're thinking of just covering our weed-filled lawn with drywall for a little while to kill everything so we can start over.

It is amazing how much junk we have. The dumpster is going to be full by the time we're done. And this is the 2nd time we've rented one in the 2 years we've lived here. (Ok, so the first one was when we replaced the carpet with tile upstairs and gutted the bathroom, but still).