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  • Clive_Woody
    Clive_Woody Posts: 5,948 Forumite
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    dmg24 wrote: »
    Some people do not appreciate being told they are talking rubbish when they are actually ... correct!

    I can't believe someone could get so stressed about something so trivial. Do you not have anything real to worry about? Muppett.

    I think I just saw your dummy fly past my office window. Would you like it back?

    :D
    "We act as though comfort and luxury are the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about” – Albert Einstein
  • peter999
    peter999 Posts: 7,102 Forumite
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    dmg24 wrote: »
    Some people do not appreciate being told they are talking rubbish when they are actually ... correct!

    I can't believe someone could get so stressed about something so trivial. Do you not have anything real to worry about? Muppett.
    6 wheelie/recycling bins !!
    The world has gone mad.

    Calculate the cost of land to store these wheelie bins, who's paying ??

    It's got to stop, we want protests on the street to stop councils blowing taxpayers money.

    peter999

    Ps: you don't work for the Council, as they attend indoctrination classes.
  • amyandoli
    amyandoli Posts: 470 Forumite
    My parents have 4 wheelie bins and are set to have more from the council. 1 for non-recyclable, 1 for garden waste, 1 for paper etc and 1 for other recyclables. I agree it's daft, and anyone into gardening or just general aethestics will invest time and more than likely money to store them and hide them.

    We started off with 1 wheelie bin, 1 recycle box, we dug out an area for them, laid slabs etc and planted up around them to disguise the ugly beasts. A few weeks later we got another bin or garden waste so wanting all the bins together we dug up the area again, bought more slabs and replanted, now there's a rumour that we're going to get all the bins my parents have in the next year, so we'll be back in the garden! I also spare a thought for people with small gardens. I rented a newbuild near my parents, the yard area was so small there we couldnt fully open the back door because of all the bins.
  • melancholly
    melancholly Posts: 7,457 Forumite
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    i guess i'm in the minority that likes all the different bins we get (five!)? we fill the garden waste one and it goes once a fortnight; the glass bin and paper bin only get collected once a month so those 2 get full(ish) too; then we have 2 'normal' bins that go every week (usually only fill one though with the recycling, even with 5 people). i guess we're lucky that we can just put them along the side of the house on the driveway and they don't get in the way, but they never smell (we do compost a lot of stuff though and the compost bin does get a bit nasty in the heat, but not that bad). i'd actually quite like an extra recycling bin for plastic bottles so that the council took everything....

    we often find that black bins 'disappear' on our road (cue 2 of us having to go up/down the street to reclaim them - it's got hte hosue number in huge numbers on it so easy to see when it's ours!) - it's more to do with where they end up after being emptied though than neighbours wanting more! i'd just leave your extra bin out and i'm sure someone will liberate it!
    :happyhear
  • FBThree
    FBThree Posts: 346 Forumite
    moonrakerz wrote: »
    HOW MANY guinea pigs has she got !!!!!

    Well she used to have 33! Now down to about 18 as she's been trying to sell her house for a year and moving 33 would be hard work. So she's not replacing ones that die.....and she does have several that are quite an age for guinea pigs!
  • meggles
    meggles Posts: 196 Forumite
    i really don't understand paying someone to wash out my wheelie bin. hose, bleech, mop. 3 mins.
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