04-03-2010, 12:59 AM
When our kids were young and we would start to pack up from camping, we'd all take bags and rubber gloves and collect what ever trash we could find.
The fun part came in the rewards - prizes for the "most of something", "the most unusual", "the biggest", "the most colorful" and so on. Prizes were usually candy bars or some other treat.
The kids even took to making secret hordes or treasure caches before hand when they spotted something. And sometimes it was a war over who claimed what! Ever had your kids fight over a piece of trash??? [sly]
But first you have to teach them what not to pick-up--glass and some other things are just for grownups to take care of.
We go to places that are beautiful, and I like to leave them that way. I have always wondered why so many others leave trash. They came to the place because they thought it was nice right? Would they camp at the dump even if it was on a fishing hole? No! So instead they pick a nice place, and then make it into a dump? Not logical to me.
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The fun part came in the rewards - prizes for the "most of something", "the most unusual", "the biggest", "the most colorful" and so on. Prizes were usually candy bars or some other treat.
The kids even took to making secret hordes or treasure caches before hand when they spotted something. And sometimes it was a war over who claimed what! Ever had your kids fight over a piece of trash??? [sly]
But first you have to teach them what not to pick-up--glass and some other things are just for grownups to take care of.
We go to places that are beautiful, and I like to leave them that way. I have always wondered why so many others leave trash. They came to the place because they thought it was nice right? Would they camp at the dump even if it was on a fishing hole? No! So instead they pick a nice place, and then make it into a dump? Not logical to me.
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