"We've been doing this for ten years. We rent a dumpster where neighbors can come throw all of their extra cardboard and dead trees from the holidays. All that clutter that builds up in their home that everyone hates. There's a place to dump it. It costs about $150 to $200, depending on where you're at," she explained. "December 23rd to January 1st, you can wrap a bow around it! I've had my kids decorate it before."
"Merry Christmas, we rented a dumpster, feel free to use it!"
"What do I want for Mother's Day? Thanks for asking! I want my husband and my kids to leave the house for, like, eight hours and I want him to buy me one of those big dumpster things that sits outside of the house and I want to throw every f*cking thing in it and I just"
A neighbor rents a temporary dumpster annually for communal holiday cleanup, inviting residents to discard excess cardboard, dead trees, and post-holiday clutter. The rental typically costs about $150 to $200 and is staged from December 23rd to January 1st; neighbors receive a simple text invitation to use it. The dumpster can be decorated and even funded collectively with small contributions from each house. The approach reduces individual cleanup time, lowers holiday stress, and enables a large-scale purge; similar sentiment appears in a Mother's Day anecdote expressing strong desire for a driveway dumpster to purge a home.
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