Accidental Compost Heap

As I have stated previously, I eat a lot of vegetables and fruits -- the blessing and the curse of the vegetarian. I have also been trying to cut down on everything because I am cheap and too lazy to put up my sweet tutoring flyers. These two concepts connect in that I didn't have enough garbage to put out on Sunday night. I figured that two weeks' worth of garbage wouldn't put me past overflowing or anything, so why not save the garbage bag and skip one trash day. Well, back to my fruits and vegetables now. My garbage consists of banana peels, orange peels, the unusable parts of tomatoes and peppers, egg shells, and old yogurt containers. Oh, I'm sorry... add "two week old" in front of all those things! Luckily I have a lid to my garbage can because every time I open it up now, I get a waft of what can only be described as fermentation. And not the good kind... this smells nothing like wine!

I am waiting with bated breath (it has to be) for garbage day so I can rid my flat of this compost heap. I thought about tossing some old peeling onto my plant, Red, but let's be honest. I don't know much about composting and you just can't mess with nature inexperienced-like. Plus, the smell would then be on my window sill, not hidden in my huge garbage can.

I actually plan to put my garbage bags out on the street under the cover of darkness because I'm sure they will stink until morning when they get picked up. And when I leave my flat that morning, I will also sniff the air accusingly and look disgusted, all the while smiling inside because that stench will have left the flat.