Do you remember Garbage Pail Kids?

They were trading card stickers (I had a poster too!) designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. They would be disgusting, or gross, or just plain wrong. They were so cool! Anyway, I was a Garbage Pail Kid this weekend – and my mom and Hubby were too! We were stomping around in goodness knows what at the base of giant trash heap at the dump transfer station and we looked pretty cool doing it!

Our plan was to load the entire 3-Season’s room worth of construction debris into my Mom’s Van and head to the dump! This is how the 3-Season room looked when we started (minus about 7 boxes, 2 sheets of wood, etc that we had to pull out of the way to even get into the room.

We carried everything out and put the boxes full of tiles on the floor of the van as flat as we could. Then we carried out all of the wood and debris and put it near the van so we could stack it in there just right. The wood is full of nails so it wasn’t necessarily easy to slide into place but they did it!

Nugget watched through the window in the kitchen out to the 3-Season room. He just wanted to make sure everything was going smoothly.

I looked up the address of the dump (which like I said is actually is a “transfer station”) and headed back outside into the frigid teen degree weather. The Van was completely packed from top to bottom.

The three of us jammed into the two front seats and off we went!

Once we got there they gave us hard hats and vests that had to be worn. We were directed to “Bay 6”.

After a little fashion show…

We all started pulling the debris out and heaving it into this massive open bay to the base of the garbage mountain. The building was maybe 4 stories tall and completely open except for a few columns delineating the different bays. The mounds of garbage were humongous and if there hadn’t been piece of heavy machinery 10 feet away from me scooping trash I might have taken more pictures! You will be able to see a little bit of the building and heaps of trash in the back ground of the next few pictures.

Hubby may not look so happy here because his poor little tootsie were hurting. Somehow he damaged his feet and they still weren’t feeling all the way better at this point.

Unloading sure did go pretty fast! Look how excited Mom is that everything is out of the van! (trash heap behind Hubby in the background.) I think we all looked pretty darn good in our trash hauling gear. Not only could you see us from a mile away in our neon colors but the hat and vest both added a much needed pop of color to our dingy work wear!

And now the room is free from all of that debris. Thank Goodness! I just have to take a broom out there and roll up the plastic and we will be good to go!

We are so lucky to have a Mom that will drive up to your house on a friday night, do all of your dishes even after protests, spend the night on the couch with the cats, wake up at 7AM to haul an entire room of construction debris to the dump and then take you out for breakfast. Now that’s love!

ps: (We had almost a thousand pounds of debris and it cost $80 to dump it – (it’s $80 for up to 1 ton). That’s much better than the nealry $500 that “1-800-GOT JUNK” wanted to haul it away.)