I also thought my house would be absolutely clean and my yard would be gloriously manicured. The phones almost instantly quit ringing with spam/cold-calling calls and only seemed to come alive again with election calls (ugh). I could not block them fast enough! Junk mail seemed to have become reasonable with no bulk sale ads. That must have saved some businesses a ton. As one household, we have much more “recycle” than garbage. Garbage/recycle pick-up did not hiccup!
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