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Make it all fit?
15/f
My mom gave me the chore of taking all our pictures and scanning them into the computer, and then throwing away the paper copies so we have more room in our house for other stuff. She's paying me like $250 to do it, and I got everything scanned, but now I've got 9 big boxes of pictures to put in our trash compactor (not like the ones at the mall, but like an appliance that fits under your kitchen counter), and one box will fill it up. Our trash men charge us more when we have more than one bag, so Mom's pretty obcessive about only having one bag of trash per week, and I don't get paid until I complete the task. But a bunch of my friends are going to Six Flags next week, and if I don't get this done, I won't have the $$$ to. How can I make this happen?
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Tell ur mom the prob
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Ask to get paid in advance. Offer to keep the boxes in your closet or room [in other words, out of the way of your mom]. Explain to her that all the pictures will fill up the compactor and you have to dispose of them in small batches.
As an alternative, ask for maybe $100 in advance, and the rest can be paid upon the disposal of the photographs, so that you can go to Six Flags. Your mom seems pretty lenient, seeing as she's paying you $250 for something she could have forced you to do for nothing. Ask nicely and don't be whiny & you'll probably get your way.
Or, as an alternative, organize the photos in as few boxes as possible. Throwing them in at random takes up more room than arranging them perfectly straight & all that.
I think it's sort of weird that you're throwing them all out, to be honest. I'd at least keep them in an attic. Truly old photographs, I'd keep. Like the REALLY old ones, from the 1940s and such. They're amazing. And keep negatives, ALWAYS, from film cameras. I'm betting that'd be one box, tops. And it's good to have a backup of your pictures, so it's worth the closet space.
And I'm sure you've already done it, but back up all those computer files and keep it in a safe deposit box or fireproof safe in your house. You won't regret it.
-LM
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How about trying to find a recycling center near you? Then you're not just getting paid... But you're also saving trees! YAY!! (Haha... Sorry. It's late and I'm in a weird mood.)
If you can't find a recycling center... How about trying to find a public waste bin? They usually have a whole slew of industrial size cans at strip shopping malls. Sure... Stores don't like you dumping your garbage there... But you could always ask first. I'm sure someone would say yes.
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