My New Year’s Resolution: put the Halloween pumpkins in the compost bin.
And I did it!
WINNING!
You graced our porch for three months.
We never even carved you, but it’s time to let go.
It’s a New Year.
It’s a good thing we didn’t have a Christmas tree this year. Who knows how long that would have stuck around.
This post was a response to the Daily Prompt: Resolved. Have you ever made a New Year’s Resolution that you kept?
Did you paint that pumpkin? NICE! Mine are still on the front porch along with my favorite Halloween items that are appropriate ALL YEAR LONG ~
Oh no. I did not paint it. Somebody who works for the grocery store–or its supplier–did.
Thank you pumpkin painter person!
You have a very responsible outlook on the environment Kylie.
If you lived anywhere near Manhattan, right now, you’d see Christmas trees lying all over the sidewalk. They’re not composting. Posted below in an image that I used some years ago for my holiday card. It’s one of my all-time favorite cartoons from The New Yorker. I think it best captures both the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and the New York attitude about Christmas trees once the holidays are history:
http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/JANUARY-3RD-AT-ROCKEFELLER-CENTER-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8541055_.htm
Portland is pretty special. Our city only picks up trash every other week, but weekly composting is free–even kitchen scraps. It seriously pains me to visit a place where I have to throw away recyclables.
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Yay! You did it! You’re off to a brilliant start! Congratulations!
I threw my pumpkins away as we were bringing in the Christmas tree. They were also not carved. Oh well!
I knew I liked you.
Hey, that’s great u’r recycling! Hopefully it’s cold enough where you are, otherwise you’ll get pumpkin soup in the bin come spring LOL. Enjoy your winter.
Luckily, they’ll pick it up before it festers
Every bit of trash I “create” pains me to be honest…there seems to be hardly any escape from it. “Would you like your meat in plastic?” – “Why, no! Isn’t it wrapped in plastic twice already?”
Seriously, it makes me want to have a farm…
Agreed!
I get so irritated with unnecessary packaging, especially on the “natural and organic” foods. Seems hypocritical. Makes me want to start a letter-writing campaign every time I come home from the grocery store ;p
Luckily, thanks to our City Council, not only do we have free curbside composting… but plastic bags have been banned at most retailers! Now, clerks have started to ask “Do you need a bag?” rather than “Paper or plastic?”
I love Portland.
Yeah…I’d love that. I wish they’d make it mandatory for bags to be at least recyclable, or even biodegradable…
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Ours are long gone–we get first frost right after halloween and it turns them from pumpkins to mushkins :>) But I do like doable resolutions!
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Cool pumpkin!