Get in shape / Clean the place / make some friends

All at once.

I recently replaced my daily morning run by a daily morning run with a garbage bag. While I run around, i take whatever`s lying on the ground and put in in the bag, when it too filled up I go back home and repeat if I want to.

Not long ago people started noticing and asked me about it and why was I doing it, I eventually became closer to the people of my neighborhood and now I can get a few good chats every morning, and some people even started to be a little more careful.

It helps me get in shape, i get to talk and share with different people everyday, and my neighborhood looks great.

Feel free to try :)

Tags: Clean, garbage, meeting, solution, work

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Permalink Reply by skurin on May 31, 2009 at 10:36am

That's a great idea! When we walk on the Rail Trail I always take along a plastic bag for garbage. We've never come home without at least a partially filled garbage bag.

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Sarah on June 1, 2009 at 7:09pm

I call it a "trash walk". When I had an injury and couldn't run, I started just walking with a trash bag. You get some squats in, for sure, and people seem to appeciate it. It's pretty easy to get obsessive about it, though. At least for me... I'm glad to know others do it, too!

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Permalink Reply by keepyourgf on June 2, 2009 at 9:45pm

Nice idea fprovost, getting to know you neighbors is one way to keep it clean! My town just anounced that they are going to have a downtown cleanup day, hopefully they'll get a good turnout. On another note, I don't really get why they is so much litter so much, especially in my downtown, since there are two trash cans on every block!
:-) cleaner Fargo