Garbage chutes are a thing of the past.

Solely due to how they want you to separate food scraps from general garbage now. New garbage system doesnt work well with chutes.

Garbage is the one item going from an apartment to the house that really made no difference. Yes it was a pain to go to the garbage room, but to counter that I never had to worry about putting out the garbage bin, or collectign it again after it is emptied. It's a net neutral change.

Fucking killed me. If I could give you more thanks I would.

I likely would have left mine beside theirs. Lol! People are idiots.

It's been a while, but I recall there were buttons or a knob to select whether you were going to shove a bag of garbage down the chute, or recycling. Probably there's a compost setting these days. And yeah depending on the setting, the chute would route to the right destination.

It's annoying having limited bin space though! Go a little crazy at Amazon / Costco and you're left spending forever tearing down boxes and playing tetris struggling to get it all in.

And then the yard work fml. For 3 weeks I've been chain/pole-sawing to pieces the neighbors' tree branches hanging over our property, slowly fitting it into our compost bin week after week lol.

Yeah, our trisorter has "Garbage" - "Recycling" - "Organics"

But 100% it's out of service maybe once a year because someone is too lazy and tries to chuck a cardboard box down it. Or kitty litter - apparently bags of kitty litter were exploding when they hit the tri-sorter at the bottom and it eventually gummed up the mechanism.

Also people still try to leave bags of garbage inside the garbage chute rooms because they're too impatient to wait for another floor to finish using it. Luckily our property management is all over that.

And that's being in a relatively small (12 floor) condo with a pretty good community. I could see that quickly going to shit in a giant building...

I was in a 44-level condo with about 12 units each floor (some fewer than others) but you get the idea. It was a gong show at times. When it worked, it was fantastic. But a good amount of people ruin it for everyone and it's awful when it stops working.

The fun part of garbage chutes, is being the guy who goes into it, to mission impossible out your shit, at the very bottom where it elbows into the compactor.

Where is garbage pickup every 2 weeks? It has always been once a week in Richmond. I'm assuming here, because I know hobz is in Richmond. But damn cost cutting eh.

Vancouver has been every two weeks for a while now for garbage pick up

Food waste and recycling are every week

Richmond regular garbage for SFH was changed to bi-weekly Q1 of 2016, recycle + food waste weekly still.

And yeah, some parks would have what appears to be household trash at times, even the bus stop where I usually chuck dog shit sometimes would have bags of random trash.

Burnaby is also every 2 weeks. It works fine far as I can tell - folks can always just get a bigger garbage can if they need it.

Cheaper to throw garbage in public garbages. :fullofwin:

Any suggestions on things I should take her and go do locally or within 5 hours / few night stays?

I have a hard time finding fun activities aside from the usual sightseeing. I went to Whistler this weekend but she's been a few times and she can't do much activities so it's not as fun.

Yeah, she walks from South Van to Metro and back weekly. She currently walks 6 - 12 hours of everyday with the retired neighbors. She told me a story yesterday how she'd walk from our first house in a dinky basement on Kingsway, all the way to Chinatown to buy groceries and walk back to save $1.75.

I think it'll make your life easier if you find her some like minded / similar age bracket people she can communicate / bond with.

Try signing her up for chinese seniors class somewhere doing basic shit like cooking or dancing, or something. Or even a mahjong group.

Then hopefully she'll make friends and they'll decide to go out on trips.

WHatever you do is very much "forced" but here's the list of shit ive taken my crazy old bat to:

Vancouver Aquarium
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Quite parks in richmond for a nice walk with the dogs
Rent a boat in granville island
Take that horse carriage in Stanely park
Take her to see a chinese movie (riverport plays chinese films all the time)
Dim sum (no brainer here)
Trips to the states

Lol this isn't a day camp, it's an Asian parent. If she walks that distance weekly she doesn't need more exercise with you.

You should focus on quality time, hanging out and teach her how to communicate with you properly. You should figure out how to ask her what she likes to do, what she aspires to do, and what makes her happy. If she can't answer those questions (which Asians usually can't) work on that communication with her.

Asian parents just want to feel useful, heard, and respected. If I want to spend time with my parents, I go over once a week and have dinner with them. They don't need you to spend money on them, they have more money than you.

Edit, oh and if you really want to make them happy, give them grand children. And no, this is not a joke.

And if you only see them once a week, just borrow someone else's child... give them a night off from their kid and you make your elder happy... win win!

This is actually all she asks for :ilied:

my mom loves my chihuahua's so its kinda like giving her a fuzzy grandchild.

You can substitute child with Dog

I successfully did that for many years and then my sister plunked out a couple of kids and my Mom only cares about her now :alone:

lol a dog is only a consolation prize if they know they won't get grandkids.

Guaranteed if you had a kid that chihuahua would be ignored.

We have two fur-babies that my parents have accepted as all that they will get from us. My parent's only hope for human grandchildren is my younger brother, so I am really hoping they will have one so at least they get to have that experience.

At least my brother-in-law has two kids so the wife's parents are off our back when it comes to having kids.

WHAT!? how dare you

How can you ignore this precious baby! she's playing her own version of duck hunt
https://i.postimg.cc/65wRYvWs/IMG-8375.jpg
https://media.tenor.com/dkuMTPNBft4A...video-game.gif

id throw a human baby into the garbage compactor if i had to choose.

that white/blue stripe looks like the duck's been worn out :ratedb: :ilied:

:troll:

I was about to say that :lol

That duck sure as hell isn't getting chewed on..

stop slut shaming my girl!

WHORES