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BlueTrain

Call Me a Cab
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I'm from a coal mining region of the country. At one time not really that long ago, meaning in my lifetime, miners lived in company housing and shopped at the company store. I don't know how the prices were but there were few other nearby places to shop. Travel was not as easy as it is now and cars less common. I also don't know what rents were nor what the houses were like, either. The supervisors also lived in the coal camps but typically in a bigger, if not necessarily nicer, house that was invariably a little further up the hill. I doubt that miners were required to lived in company houses but that was also a day when men would be more likely to walk to work instead of driving.
 

Stearmen

I'll Lock Up
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7,202
Here is a fun one for all of you! Do you call the grinding devise under your sink a Garbage Disposal, or a Garbage Disposer were you come from? I always said Disposer!
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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Where The Tourists Meet The Sea
Never knew anyone who had one -- we just throw our kitchen waste in a container we call "the dump." Not a garbage can, not a trash can, not a rubbish can, not a bin. Just "the dump." "Throw those chicken bones in the dump." "Throw those potato peelings in the dump."

The contents of "the dump" are then taken to "the dump." Not the transfer station, not the skip, just "the dump."
 
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17,215
Location
New York City
While on the subject, I remember a few of the more prosperous homes in the '70s having their own trash compactor in their kitchen - about half the size of a dish washer, it did what it sounds like, you put your trash in there, turned it on and it mashed it down. I guess the idea was you'd have less trash to put out as, in our town, you paid by the can.

Even as a kid, I found the idea a bit strange as who'd want their smashed garbage, effectively, sitting in their house for days (as it could take that long to fill it up). Back in my frugal childhood home, we'd bag ours each night, tie it tight, put it in the can, seal the lid and move on. Do those things - home trash compactors - even exist anymore?
 
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MisterCairo

I'll Lock Up
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7,005
Location
Gads Hill, Ontario
Here is a fun one for all of you! Do you call the grinding devise under your sink a Garbage Disposal, or a Garbage Disposer were you come from? I always said Disposer!

Garburator. We don't have one, they often get jammed, but on board ship, far enough out to sea in a non-protected zone we would garburate vegetable, fruit and some meat products for disposal through the grey water system.
 

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