Collapsible Trash Can Solves Lawn Cleanup Problem

Raking, picking up and putting leaves into plastic bags aren’t the easiest thing in the world to do, especially when one of those fall breezes has everything blowing all over the yard. Before discovering how handy a collapsible trash can, garden container or whatever you prefer to call the handy garden tool. By the way my little sister turned me onto the idea, thanks sis. Anyhow before discovering this miracle of modern technology, and all the benefits, I dreaded the thought of having to clean up the yard after all the trees started losing their leaves each fall.

Let’s face it, picking up leaves in fall and putting them into a large Rubbermaid 50-gallom trash can is a lot of hard work.

All the Bending over, and picking up as many leaves as my oversized leaf rake could hold, then dumping them into the trash can with liner bag, was relatively easy. The real pain in the back came when I tried to remove the trash can liner full of leaves, sticks and gumballs from the overstuffed liner inside the trash can.

Hine sight being 20/20, using my foot to stuff the liner with every leaf, twig, and gum ball I could stuff in it looking back on it  was not such a good idea, but those 55-gallon trash can liners are expensive you know.

I guess it only fair to say, the first sign of trouble appeared when the combination of static electricity, suction and combined weight of all the wet leaves, sticks, and gum balls I could stuff in the thing, made it a nightmare to remove the liner bag from inside the large 50-gallon rubber maid trash can. Subsequently, destroying the liner bag, and spilling its entire contents on the lawn, darned aggravating.