MSE Pregnancy Club IX

money_maker_3

Cheapskate wrote: »

Oops - sorry mm! Been at screen for ages & everything's one big blur - must have mixed up posts - forgive this stupid pg lady!

We are not stupid pregnant ladies, we are just temporarily allowing our brain power to be used for more baby related things such as the flavour of ice cream that bump will like the most and the most comfortable way to lie in bed at night

Mrs_Moc

money_maker wrote: »

You lot have strange bin colours over in England dont you ??

We have black bin for general rubbish and blue bin for recycling and thats it !!
Apparently we are getting brown ones next year for garden waste, but havent been told for definate yet

I have the brown bin for garden waste, had it over a year now. Our bin men are great and always take a few extra bags from us.

MrsTinks

Tia can't do that here... the recycling men will actually refuse anything that doesn't fit the "list" and it's not a normal bin lorry so it couldn't take poo stuff anyway
I guess re-usables WOULD be sealed in if using the nappy bins thingies - but I just dread if one of them split and it got on the inside of the bin... Eurgh! I do get the bin cleaning people out once a month (£3.50 - good value given where the bin is outside our house!) but still!
Will continue to ponder the reusables... I like the idea...

tiamai_d

tarajayne wrote: »

Our black bin goes on the landfill lorry that only comes once a fortnight so no other option. Recycling goes once a week. As a family with kids we never even asked for one of the bigger black bins and have always managed to recycle enough to stick to the same one as all the elderly couple around here use. It was a great lesson in food wastage when we got the food waste bin, makes you much more aware of not putting leftovers in the bin, it's a weekly topic here to see which of 2 of our neighbours can bin the most each week. :rolleyes:

It's our blue (recycling) bin that's overflowing! DH has to stand in it :rotfl:

SugarSpun

I stole someone's name by accident. I use SugarSpun all over the place, and it wasn't till I'd already registered here that I saw there was already a sugarspunsister.

Oops.

Cheapskate

tarajayne wrote: »

Evening, on the subject of nappies, I'm considering a mixture of both, have looked at the Pop-in by Close Parent as they go right from birth to 3yrs. Nice stretchy sides to just like a disposable. Our local baby shop has the set for £99, any opinions?

Had my support fitted today, it's much better than the one I got last time. Really helped walking up the hill to school.

tarajayne - I was just lloking at these on mothercare site, they're £128 for 10, how many's in your shop's set? I'm debating whether to go for reuseables, too, but so many choices, it's a lot of money if they don't suit. At least with disposables, you can just use up a bag & try something else for less than a tenner.

searching_me

right dog is took out, doors all locked and chained zoe in bed watching thumberlina ... ahhhh im on the beanbag sofa with my duvet bottle of ice bottle of coke zero ... thats it im not moving tonight x

Cheapskate

money_maker wrote: »

We are not stupid pregnant ladies, we are just temporarily allowing our brain power to be used for more baby related things such as the flavour of ice cream that bump will like the most and the most comfortable way to lie in bed at night

Of course we are, chuck, & I'll tell DH you said so next time he complains! :rotfl:

tiamai_d

MrsTine wrote: »

Tia can't do that here... the recycling men will actually refuse anything that doesn't fit the "list" and it's not a normal bin lorry so it couldn't take poo stuff anyway
I guess re-usables WOULD be sealed in if using the nappy bins thingies - but I just dread if one of them split and it got on the inside of the bin... Eurgh! I do get the bin cleaning people out once a month (£3.50 - good value given where the bin is outside our house!) but still!
Will continue to ponder the reusables... I like the idea...

no no no, sorry, the street round the corner is on a different schedule to us, so when it's their landfill bin, it's our recycling bin. So when we put our bin round there it goes in the correct lorry. Our bins at right at our back door so if they do get smelly you smell them in the house. Can't go further up as there is steps.

Krystaltips

Even though I used them with Aimee I'm still at a loss as to which nappies to try... Thats why we bought a set of little lambs in size one... So will do for the first few months and then I plan on buying a selection of the next size up ones... Baby will be in that size a lot longer so I'll get my moneys worth... Plus the little lambs are plain white and once it's in size 2 I can get pretty patterned and coloured wraps and things...

Have a couple of free ones from the council, a onelife and some totsbots fleece ones I think... Can't remember without looking in the bag!

Oh, and we have recycling collected fortnightly, small black bin collected weekly and we don't have a garden waste bin... I would love a garden waste bin... Especially since they shrank our general bin to half the size...