Rubbish!

When taking out the trash can the other night for the next morning's pick-up, the thought dawned on me that some people call our refuse rubbish, while others call it garbage, while yet others call it trash.  I attempted to find out if there was a difference in meaning between the three words, but came up dry.  Whatever you want to call it, I think it always feels good to dispose of it.  One thing I've noticed in recent months is that the amount of trash that Larry and I accumulate each week has greatly diminished.  Even the amount that we recycle has decreased.  We're buying fewer goods period, let alone goods in complex packages. Thus, we're reducing the amount of garbage we have to put out on the curb.  The less we have to dump, the more we're doing to help preserve the planet. And that's a good thing.