The KonMarie method

mrs-moneypenny

It was about half the contents of mils garage GQ, there was loads of bits of wood and metal that might have come in handy one day, a couple of wardrobes and bookcases that had got damp and died in storage. A whirly washing line with broken strings, a guitar that was cracked and warped from when DHs was a child an old lazeeboy recliner, a mattress and loads of fils old decorating stuff.
Still got the old dried out paint tins, the gardening stuff and some camping things on the other side to sort through, but as I said thats for another time. I don't want the tip staff to notice me too much as my DD got told off and threatened with a permit for going too many times in a week.

I'm going to sit with my cross stitch this afternoon.

mrs-moneypenny

Re bins we just have a garden waste bin - with free fortnightly collection.
We are allowed to put out up to 3 black bin bags full of domestic rubbish a week plus unlimited green and brown recycling bags.
Brown are for paper card etc green are for tin plastic tetrapacs and tinfoil.
We also have a fortnightly cooking oil and glass collection which we a given a plastic box for.

june89

wort wrote: »

Can I just ask how many wheelie bins everyone has? We have 4.
Blue for paper and card
Brown for plastic and glass
Green for garden and food in compostable bags (which council ptovide)
Black is for everything else.:T

Two wheelie bins. Blue for mixed recycling, black for rubbish. Collected on alternating weeks.

There's also green wheelies for garden waste (not food scraps) but the council don't have enough. I've been on a waitlist for one for over a year. :mad:

ivyleaf

Oh june89, that's bad, waiting over a year :eek:

We have a big brown wheelie bin for garden waste - or will have shortly, when some more arrive. We are meant to be getting ours by 4th October.. It's a new paid-for service, a few £ cheaper here than where greent is. In the meantime our grass cuttings are in a black bag out the back. I keep telling DH we need to take them to the tip before they ferment.

Small brown bin (like a giant-sized kitchen caddy) for food waste - this is collected free every week.

Until recently we had a single brown wheelie bin for garden and food waste.

Big green wheelie bin for non-recyclables - collected fortnightly. This will alternate with the garden waste collection.

Green box for paper and cardboard (all types)

Maroon box for plastic bottles and some types of plastic packaging (e.g. meat trays, fruit punnets), metal and plastic lids, tetrapaks, cans, foil, yogurt pots.

Black box for glass bottles and jars.

Phew, it gets complicated enough here, but I remember reading that at least one area has nine different bins/bags :eek:

Jo4

Thank you for all the messages. :A:T

Hubby and I went to my appointment yesterday. I was put into a side room so hubby could be with me and that if anything was wrong he could go and get a nurse. The person carrying out the procedure asked hubby if he would like to come into the room and see the procedure taking place. Apparently this doesn't normally happen but did because of my sight and health issues as well as being on an insulin pump. Hubby had watched his own colonoscopy before but he came in with me and he watched the screen but I only took a quick look at it a few times (not nice, looked a little like mince). I also had to disconnect from my insulin pump during the procedure because of what the nurse referred to as their "sat nav" which was placed tight on my tummy and could possibly interfere with my insulin pump.

The procedure was supposed to take 15 - 45 minutes but mine took just over an hour. Any way they said that although I had done the prep as advised that due to being a diabetic almost thirty years that it hadn't worked well enough for them to get a clear view but from what they did manage to see they didn't find anything. However they now want me to go for a CT colonoscopy virtual. I have been for a sydoscopy in August and a colonoscopy yesterday so I don't feel I can put myself through any more of these things although hubby would prefer I did as he doesn't want me going any where. :eek::rotfl: Perhaps I am not thinking straight because I am not feeling back to normal yet although they did say it would take a few days to get back to normal.

When we were leaving the nurse looked relieved and she said despite all my complications it was easy to look after me because hubby was there for me and he is used to dealing with everything. She also stated that I was very independant.

I am taking it easy and doing a few things online (trying to sort home insurance which expires on 30th September, banking, etc) instead of getting rid of things which don't give me any "joy". :eek:

Jo4

wort wrote: »

Can I just ask how many wheelie bins everyone has? We have 4.
Blue for paper and card
Brown for plastic and glass
Green for garden and food in compostable bags (which council ptovide)
Black is for everything else.:T

We have two wheelie bins.

Blue for recycling.
Black for everything else.

They are emptied on alternative weeks.

tibawo

Struggling for energy today but I must get the momentum going and I've church mag get sorted too!
I'm struggling with some books. I don't use them but they bring me sentimental joy ,IYSWIM, i proudly won them at primary school and I want to keep them. I have keepsake boxes for my girls and feel I should have one of my own? What do others think? I am talking one that fits under the bed. Just one. That is the house rule. Dd was really In awe when she saw my reception school books from mums as I learnt to write, I kept hers too and it was really great to see how education has changed!

mavvymoo

Wheelie Bins (makes a change from carrier bags):rotfl:
We have a Black one for rubbish collected every other week
and a Green one for everything else which can be recycled including glass :eek: collected every other week.and thats it for us there is a Brown bin for garden waste which you have to pay for I have no idea how much as we just burn ours (we have no neighbours)

I stuggle knowing which one is to be collected so how some of you remember I dont know kudos to you

When I lived in a house where we couldnt have wheelie bins we had to use bags Black for rubbish and clear for everything else. Which were collected weekly and chucked on the same lorry So I am sure that was a waste of time and it all ended up in landfill

I picked up a lovely new M&S coat today which is really joyful and looks lovely on For £6.95 what a bargain that was and I kondoed nearly all my coats and only kept my long Grey one this will fill a big gap and I am sure it will be worn loads Still had the tags on for £120 :eek: So it didnt bring its owner joy but its sparked joy in me so thank you very much who ever donated it you have made my day even more joyful than it was :T

Mav x

GreyQueen

mavvy, some bin lorries are 'split body' which means they can do two different kinds of pick-ups at the same time (and disgorge the contents separately). Some of ours are of that type (some aren't) and we regularly have residents ring up in a snit because they think their recycling has gone into the refuse stream when it hasn't.

I live in flats and we're on communal bins as there physically isn't anywhere to put individual wheelies. One week it's refuse, the next week it's recycling, food waste goes every week, same as it does for residences with individual wheelie bins.

My mind boggles at what I'd do with a wheelie bin of my very own as I just tossed two weeks' worth of rubbish-rubbish and it was one smallish carrier bagful. Mark you, if you sit still too long around here I'll probably have you off into one of the recycling bins.:D

Have done a tip run with the nasty weeds and managed to come away with zero items of wicker-ware.:o

I am getting ridiculously happy about coming up to 1st October, when the bonfire ban comes off at the lotties, and I can execute my cunning plan for the annual bit of pyromania.

Checklist;

Weather dry, windless, or wind blowing away from houses and onto the common. Site etiquette is no bonfiring when it'll blow towards the houses. Check bundled broad bean stems nice and dry. Check out contents of potato sack where random bits of burnable wood have been secreted in the 12 months since the last bonfire.

On open bit of ground, carefully craft a lovely bonfire and set back and enjoy the spectacle.

june89

Mav When we moved in here, the landlord had printed out the bin schedule from the council and included it in the docs for the house. Very helpful! Now I have pretty stickers for them on my calendar, which you can make so easily with clipart.

GQ I've noticed some houses in our area have boxes or the small wheelies instead of full sized ones, as they don't need the regular bins. We have about a bag a week (on non-Kondo weeks :rotfl:) and I just put it out anyway.