From 6pm on Friday Sept 26th until 6pm on Saturday the 27th, the Town of SBP asks that you leave your still re-usable offerings out on your curbside, then bundle up the family and go out walkabout around the neighbourhoods to see what treasures you can score!

Swap Day is a fun, environmental program which allows people to recycle unwanted items.

Place unwanted items such as furniture, books, tools, sporting goods, toys, etc at the end of your driveway or the edge of your lawn. Tie a white plastic bag to one or more of the items to indicate that the items are meant for Swap Day.
[ South Bruce Peninsula Crier: Swap Day September 27 2008 ]

Kind of like a Trick or Treat for the homeowners, or being a Womble for a day :) I think it would be great fun to do our rummaging under cover of the overnight darkness, our whole town a midnight buzz of wagon-toting torchlit human racoons, maybe some lanterns, street vendors and buskers to make it more alive and festive, and then everybody wakes up next morning and voilà! All your old trash is completely replaced with new trash! This could be a real Happening! Be like an Art Event: The Night of the Recyclers --- I can see the trailer for the National Geographic special now ...

"SBP. A quiet off-season resort town, but as darkness falls, out they come, the Recyclers ..."

Way better than Mummers canvassing cottages begging hootch, this is totally grassroots play if you wanna, the entry cost to play is a pile of your junk, and the social effect of all of us out rummaging is totally in tune with the flavour and character of our other community catalyst festival.

Yeah, y'know, this could really be honed into a novel landmark Community Happening, given half a chance! 'Swap Day' lacks the panache, but how about the Annual NIGHT OF THE RECYCLERS? it could put SBP on the map!

Click the SBP Crier link above for the full rules and regulations, or check with the southbrucepeninsula.com website. If you're planning to put out anything particularly inviting, post it here in the comments and give the wombles some location clues.