Dismantled mattress has made me anxious

[MildredHubble]

I doubt wealthy or middle-class people are dumping rubbish in your neighborhood. More likely, it is low-income people doing it. My opinion is based on lifelong observation of the poor doing this in my country. They do not care about others or care that the roadsides are littered with their garbage. Poverty does not justify a callous attitude toward others and society at large.

Based on the kinds of things that get dumped here, it's not poor people dumping all the time. I know some of it is people that live here, but there's been two expensive zinc galvanized trailers dumped here recently. They have some minor problems, probably could be easily fixed. They are the sorts of things people round here would either keep or wouldn't have room for in the first place.

There's patio sets and furniture dumped often. It's either people doing it themselves, or they've paid some random in a white van to take it away without checking if they a reputable.

I've overheard a conversation where someone has proudly proclaimed "Oh I just dump crap like that in [certain street], I'm doing them a favour as people like that love it, they sell it for scrap, the 'rag and bone man' will go down there anyway."

Whether they are personally dumping it or not, it's our neighbourhood that has to deal with it. It's bad enough that we have a few lazy people living round here. The irony is that we are only a 5 minute drive away from the local rubbish tip.

 

[Ken]

I have a very powerful empathy to other living things and even other non-living "things". As a young teenager, I was deeply traumatised to watch our family car given to a "friend" who started gutting it for it's suspension. I am still deeply traumatised by that memory. I have always been deeply troubled by seeing any kind of equipment damaged for any reason. I have always felt for the life and experience of things like that and can even see your feelings for the mattress.

 

[Ella Spell]

Something like that, in my experience, can be £50-60 (or roughly €55-65). It depends on the local authority really. It could be more. This is one of the reasons people dump mattresses in back lanes/alleys.

That's sad. Is there a fee if you take it to the tip yourself?

 

[Misty Avich]

We would have taken the mattress to the rubbish tip ourselves but it's way too big to fit into the car, and heavy too. But we'd never just dump it in the street or countryside.

 

[Judge]

About the only "perk" I have living in this particular place. Where the solution to getting rid of certain items like large appliances, tv sets/crts, furniture, mattresses and such is just a matter of dragging them into the area where our dumpster bin is. Not in the dumpster, or WM would penalize us. But setting things aside in that area allows the maintenance staff to remove them to who knows where as opposed to tenants having to pay fees just to get rid of environmentally hazardous items we tend to take for granted until they fail.

 

[Misty Avich]

But I guess I'm not the only one who gets freaked out by seeing the inside of things that aren't designed to be revealed.
This is a bus floor taken up (where I work) and when I showed this picture to an NT relative she shuddered and said "ugh, freaky". So maybe there's some sort of psychology behind it.

 

[MildredHubble]

That's sad. Is there a fee if you take it to the tip yourself?

Generally there's no fee unless you are taking car tyres or building rubble. I suspect they charge for the building rubble as people in the building trade would take advantage of it if it were free. Same would probably apply for car tyres as if you were a local tyre fitter you could probably overwhelm the local tip quite rapidly and they'd have to pay to have them processed (well in theory at least).

It's good to be able to just take things when you need to get rid of them. It's just a little time and effort and at least it doesn't block up the road or end up stuck behind someone's back yard gate

 

[Judge]

Dismantled anything that is primarily just discarded junk is something I see as junk upon junk.

Not surprising that the sight of such things may be stressful to any one of us. Eyesores made worse.

 

[MildredHubble]

But I guess I'm not the only one who gets freaked out by seeing the inside of things that aren't designed to be revealed.
This is a bus floor taken up (where I work) and when I showed it to an NT relative she shuddered and said "ugh, freaky". So maybe there's some sort of psychology behind it.
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This is the sort of thing I tend to find interesting, that's probably because I've worked on lots of cars and maybe I've been a bit desensitized to it.

But, I do get a feeling of repulsion when I see the dusty innards of a false ceiling in a shopping mall for example. It's that weird juxtaposition of clean and the "reality" of what the building is really like just behind the veneer of white ceiling tiles and halogen lights. Yuk!

Just kind of concentrating on the feeling I get thinking about it, I guess the repulsion comes from the realisation that no matter how much nice paint and paper and carpet you put down, the whole thing is just a thin veil over the dirty muddy reality of the world.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Maybe for you it's a fear of change?

I get really nervous whenever there's a big change in life.

But the part with taking things apart- I personally enjoy watching things get taken apart, to see how they work.

 

[Misty Avich]

It's not because I fear change. I was excited when the new mattress came. I just felt too much empathy for the old mattress.

 

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and when I showed this picture to an NT relative she shuddered and said "ugh, freaky". So maybe there's some sort of psychology behind it.

Back in the 90s I upgraded a bloke's computer for him, new motherboard and processor etc, a full rebuild.

He couldn't watch. He said it was like watching those medical programs that used to get played on TV late at night, seeing me pull bits out made him feel ill.

 

[Misty Avich]

Back in the 90s I upgraded a bloke's computer for him, new motherboard and processor etc, a full rebuild.

He couldn't watch. He said it was like watching those medical programs that used to get played on TV late at night, seeing me pull bits out made him feel ill.

Yes that's exactly what I feel.