WHERE OLD STUFF GOES TO DIE

Sunday, February 03, 2008

It’s a garbage dump—pure and simple! Let’s face it folks, we can call it a landfill—but it’s still a garbage dump. Garbage, dump and junk are sad words. Landfill sounds a lot better. Everybody wants to have more land.

Call it what you want, it’s still a dump. And that’s where old stuff goes to die. Flat screen TVs, refrigerators, twinkies, broken coffee cups and mugs, all end up at the same place—the dump.

Nobody wants to live next to the city dump so we dress up the name and call it a landfill. It sounds better. We have definitely made it look better in today’s world. But it’s still the place where our “treasures” are eventually dumped.

My wife and I have been married fifty years. We have made a lot of contributions to the landfills in four cities and two states. I know it’s silly but I like to think of our old stuff in a landfill instead of a garbage dump.