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Well-worn furniture leads the way in Rehoboth bulk pickup

Bit of everything makes it out during city’s yearly event
Imagine the scene when grandpa opened his decades-old recliner and the back fell off. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
Chris Flood
May 20, 2024

Story Location:
Rehoboth Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States

It wasn’t your imagination; the residential streets of Rehoboth Beach were filled with extra-large household trash for the last week of April and the first week of May, as the city conducted its annual bulk trash pickup.

The city has been offering the service for years. A couple of years ago, instead of simply driving all the streets every day, officials split the city in half, focusing on the south end of town the first week and then the north the second week.

More often than not, the items that lead the way are well-worn furniture, flat mattresses, rusty grills and lawn care equipment. However, there’s always a random washer and dryer set, a piece of artwork that was probably a present from years ago, some exercise equipment and beach gear.

A quick safety tip to the property owners who live in the area of the city that’s having its trash picked up the second week – if items are left outside the first week, but the city is picking up items on the other side of town, it’s obvious that no one is home.

 

Good reading chairs, which is why the elbow areas are worn.
These folks tried to hide their little-used equipment within a big pile of trash.
A used portable toilet sounds gross, but this one still has the plastic on the back handle, so it’s going to be as clean as a used one gets.
A couple of chairs purchased from the work-at-home phase of COVID, but now the boss says its work-in-the office time.
Looks like someone got a new set of patio furniture.
Generations of one family probably slept on this twin-sized bed frame during summer visits to the beach.
The question isn’t if this bike is trash, but why was this the year it made the cut?
A piece of art the owner was hoping would go unnoticed.
Where’s the reading lamp that was between these two chairs?
The winter is finally over, so let’s get rid of this fake fire place.
Hopefully there’s more wrong with this machine than the flat tire.
Every now and then, there’s something that could be useful – like this old desk.
It looks like this chair’s fate was sealed after the person who sat in it returned from an afternoon of hanging out in Dewey.
This float is still in good enough shape to stay inflated.
These baskets aren’t even old.
Just a random pan.
The trash can is so beat it’s now trash.
There are no fewer than four boogie boards and skimboards in this photo.
There’s always a handful of these bad boys put out.
There’s a “For Rent” sign in the front yard of this house, and with new mattresses to pay for, that rent has undoubtedly gone up.
It takes frugality to live at the beach and these folks didn’t want to pay the take-away fee.
As elegant a piece of trash as there ever was.
This almost looks like a yard sale.
These homeowners are inevitably going to regret getting rid of all these containers in the future.
This cream-colored love seat fits in well with the natural surroundings.
Appears to be a perfectly good wheelchair.
The trifecta of chairs found in a beach house – wicker, plastic and wood.
A few wicker chairs lined up in a row.
The metal-framed rackets are the ones that didn’t hold up here.

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Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.

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