New waste basket
I know this is a funny subject! But I’ve had the same waste basket for ten years! It was an old green battered up thing; it had been sitting in the heat at times, in the sun, and it had stretched, or melted (whatever) so that the top that swings back and forth would not stay on unless you didn’t use it! Now what good is a waste basket if you don’t use it????
I have this waste basket beside my chair at night so if I’m eating an ice cream out of a paper wrapper, or a bag of popcorn, a piece of candy (anything that comes in paper or plastic) I can throw it in the waste basket! I might add that it doesn’t weigh very much; a slight breeze can knock it over (or a dog running by!) The dog went between my chair and the waste basket the other night and knocked it over. I usually empty it every week but a couple of weeks went by and I didn’t get to it. I guess I just didn’t think about it! I looked at my wife and said “that’s it! I’m gonna buy a new waste basket!”
Well, bingo bango, a couple of days later I had a new waste basket with a fancy top! It is black; one of my favorite colors. I put it in the same place as the other one; put the old one out in the garage – just couldn’t seem to throw it away! The greatest thing about this new waste basket – the dog has run into it three or four times and it hasn’t knocked it over!