I may be misunderstanding. I see a couple dozen little things that would take maybe, at the outside, five minutes to put in a medium size plastic garbage bag. This is some kind of disaster? If Loie and I threw a party and DIDN'T have twenty times this amount of trash to deal with, THAT would be a disaster. Jimit, take a couple long, slow, soothing deep breaths and get a grip.
It has to have taken you two or three times the effort to take a picture, write a list and make a post here that it would have to quietly clean up. The worshipping lady never would have known the diff. Next time, just walk confidently in, open your trash bag, clean up, give a respectful salute to the place and go home satisfied in the knowledge of a job well done. Oh, and yes, recycle if possible, donate anything not broken to the Purple Heart, trash the rest. It's all done its job long before you get there.
