Coleman's Convenience Center sits on Highway 84 between Halls Meat Market and the Coleman County Electric Co-op, and it is unusually open about who may use it: city residents, county residents living outside the boundary, and hunters are all welcome.

The pricing is refreshingly simple. Five dollars gets one vehicle in for the day, with additional charges applied to certain items on top of that gate fee. There is no weighbridge and no tonnage calculation to puzzle over.

Cover your load. Anything arriving untarped gets a warning the first time and a ten dollar charge every time after that, which the city applies specifically to stop litter blowing across the highway.

Opening hours are narrow, so plan around them: Mondays and Fridays from one o'clock until five, and Saturdays in two blocks, nine until noon and then one until four.

Appliances come with a condition. Refrigerators, mowers and air conditioning units are taken only once all fluids have been drained and a licensed repairman has tagged the unit to confirm it. Untagged units are refused. Timber from small renovation work carried out by the property owner is allowed.

Several categories are turned away entirely: roofing shingles, batteries, paint, oil and oil filters, hazardous material, medical waste, dead animals, and anything brought by a contractor or commercial business.

One yearly bonus is worth diarising — during the city's spring clean-up period in April, residential customers inside the city limits use the centre free, with unlimited trips.