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I was driving home today when I noticed a house with its trash put out by the curb for pick-up. This was normal. Pretty much every other house on the street had the same green or blue bin with a couple items sitting next to it. This one house, however, caught my eye. Why? Because one of the items was a huge cardboard box with HOME THEATER TV written upside-down across the side of it. Now, this is beside the point, but I'm pretty there was probably a "This side up" symbol on that box with an arrow that was also upside-down, if you know what I mean. I shudder to think what would happen if you opened a tv box upside-down.

Anyway, so this box was clearly sending a message. The message it sent to me went something like this: "Hi! We just bought a new, really big, flat-screen tv. It's AWESOME!! As a matter of fact, if you stopped by while everyone was at work, it probably wouldn't be too hard to get inside and steal it! Oh, and please, have some cookies while you're at it. We're on a diet, you know."

Seriously, putting a box like that out by the street is not the brightest idea. But, even if we're just throwing out other stuff that doesn't give away that we have shiny new electronics in our house, our trash can be sending a message. We've got a flower-box out by the street right now. It's painted with this cheesy flowery weirdness. The message we're probably sending is: "Hi! We're young and we just bought this house. We don't really appreciate overly flowery, ugly paint jobs from the early nineties. These flower boxes are stinkin' ugly so we decided to rip them off the front of our house and send them to the pit of refuse where they belong."

Maybe, maybe not. Who knows? What kind of message do you think your trash is sending? (Assuming you have a regular trash pick-up like we do)

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