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Since they automated our trash pick-up, you can darn near put anything in the trash can. They lift them up and dump them as fast as they can and zoom onto the next one. Now on the days they are using an overhead commercial truck, their dump unit just dumps into a hopper bin in the front of the truck...

They have tons of electronic parking meters here, down in the city shopping districts. Kirkwood was loaded with them also at the time I moved down south. Come to think of it, so was Crestwood, Webster Groves, and Rock HIll. I know on the electronic ones, they no longer have to count the money in the...

You wouldn't believe what I found in some of the REO houses I bought at auction. You know they were foreclosed on and everything dumped out on the street. But they rarely if ever go up into the attic areas to see if something was stored up there, unless it had pull down steps. One of these houses, I...

I learned the hard way, you never let anyone take automatic deductions from your account to pay bills. It causes nothing but problems. What bills I do pay on-line I do so either using a credit card, or debit card to the credit card companies, but as a one time payment. No permission to extract any m...

We do have recyclable bins here too, but hardly anyone uses them. Why should we give to the city for free, what we can be paid to take to the recycling centers? They used to take plastic bags, but now claim they clog up their shredding machines. That's OK, the plastics guy takes plastic bags of all ...

I had a few photos preserved in sealed conservation glass, the conservation glass is only on the front, and sounds like what is also called Museum glass. Blocks UV and is anti-glare, while being crystal clear. But they were not in frames per se. They did have the border piece to prevent chipping of ...

I still keep pet plastic separate from the HDPE types, but no longer separate them into their exact numbers like I once did. Simply because our recycler said they all go into the same hopper now. What is strange, many are now saying to recycle with the lid still on. Stamped right on the lids now too...

I think the Pony Express broke up into many different companies. The Pony Express office in Kirkwood, later became a restaurant, was actually owned by Overland Stage Lines at one time. 11 Mile houses were popular during that era too, and Wells Fargo owned many of the stables associated with them. Wh...

Believe me, I understand. The best made plans of mice and men often go astray. I saved a bunch of old style picture frames I had collected from houses over the years. I did sell all the real wood ones, but kept all the plastic ornate design ones. I had planned on painting them all white, then brushi...

Compared to when my grandpa was Mayor, and all elected positions were either voluntary or came with a small salary. Today, most elected positions have a very high salary, and many perks on top of all the rest of the freebees they get. What kills me, is every time there is a new administration, new d...

When I was a tyke, and dad took me to Sportsman Park for a baseball game. The urinal was just a half-pipe laid lengthwise across the floor with a long divider the length of the pipe, about 1 foot above the pipe, made of tin, held up by steel poles about every 6 feet. The toilet area was like steel d...

I had two vertical stereo cabinets with glass doors. And between them was a lower cabinet where the turntable sat. I had all the separate components too, cassette tape decks, equalizers, tuner, amp, etc. I packed away my stereo equipment and took it to moms before our auction, and now it sits here i...

My brother would tell me some stories about a few of the countries he visited, and what was normal there would be strictly taboo here for sure. I don't remember which country it was in, but it was for some big event they held their. That had one bathroom, albeit it was about 100 feet long and 12 to ...

I don't know if it is still the same way or not, but it used to be, they could not take your home for back taxes until the amount of the tax equaled the assessed evaluation, which was usually half of what the home was worth. I know I bought a few houses for renovation that were taken for back taxes,...

I HATE indoor movie theaters, always have. Debi finally talked me into going with her to a movie, and she will never make that mistake again, hi hi. They had nothing but problems that night. Someone forgot to flip the switch to start the movie, and after a bunch of us began complaining, they finally...

Ten grand, wow that is crazy high! Probably more than the house sold for when new, if it was an older home. But then too, my brother sold his house for a similar reason. His taxes jumped from 1,800 up to 2,400 which is what prompted him to move onto his Yacht. But before he did that, he secretly sle...

My brother built a steam room shower in his basement. He had like four or five showerheads in there, and then that steam making firebox in the corner. I went in there one time and could barely breathe, and that was a couple of decades ago. We have a guy here that comes around on our street on every ...

My son had a theater in his basement that was awesome! But the thing was, unless you sat in the very back of the room, you wore your neck out trying to watch it. When they first came out with the large screen and projection TVs, they used to tell you that you didn't want one that big in that size ro...

If you had to clean a bathroom with a clawfoot tub when you were young, you surely would never want one in your house as you get older. But most of these yuppies have big bucks to pay for having their house cleaned for them. I worked in one house that had a bathroom nearly as big as my house, and th...

Nearly every block in NYC is like its own community, and once you get to know those in your area, you never want to leave. They will tell you, all the hustle and bustle is not by them, hi hi. If it was not so dang blasted cold, I really like my time in Canada, both cities I lived in while going to s...