Citizen complaint of the day: Allston, of course

Just disgusting.

almost entirely of stuff people had thrown out. Pretty much everything except a convertable couch and lazyboy chair. Never had any problem with bugs or anything like that. People throw out a lot if good shit.

I have to give props to this group. It's clear they left the furniture on their landlord's private property, instead of at the curb.

I still think they should just install a dumpster at every corner from August 30-September 2. It would be easier.

That stuff looks like its about a yeah old ill b by with my pick up..thanks universalhub

The expectation that the garbage men will pick up all the trash you place on the curb contributes to the issue. Every other part of the country I've ever lived in limits the amount of trash each dwelling can dispose of each week, otherwise fines and fees are imposed based on the excess volume. As a result, both tenants and landlords are much more careful about the expectations around extra junk that doesn't fit in the trash cans/dumpsters. I would bet that Allston Christmas likely costs Boston many hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra trash fees each year. Such a waste since much of this stuff isn't really junk and could be re-used or Craigslisted. Those moving are just too busy/lazy to dispose of it properly.

I really must dig out a photo of the day 14 years ago my wife and I moved into our Brighton apartment. Got there with the truck and movers only to discover the previous tenants had moved out - leaving an apartment full of furniture behind!

Merry Christmas, indeed! Little so-and-so's couldn't even be bothered to dump stuff on the sidewalk. We had to stack all their junk in the living room so our movers had room to bring stuff in. It stayed there a few hours or until next day when our embarrassed landlord (guy who owned the unit) had his real estate agent (who had pronounced it "all set to move in") bring a couple of guys and carry all the stuff out. Lengthened our move-in/unpacking by a couple of days because I had to move (by myself) all the rest of our stuff that had been piled on each other in the wrong room to their final places.