Is frugal the new normal?

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I have a blue bag from my local council that stand in my kitchen I line this with a recycling bag also from the council (both free ) and I fill the inner lining bag once a fortnight with paper recycling bits etc, for actual food non recyclable stuff I have one of those little veg bags that you can get on a roll or sometimes from the supermarket and that gets used for stuff that can't be recycled.I fill one of those small bags ones a week and take it across to the litter bin across the road from me in the precinct.I never have any black bin bags as It would take me far too long to fill one up. Tins get washed out and flattened and put in a box for recycling at the tip where there is an aluminium bin.At the moment I am saving loo roll inner cardboard liners for my DGD as she is a primary school teacher and she need things like that for her classrooms Christmas tree projects. I am a bit fanatical about wastage and like to use up or find a new home for almost anything.
We only have one planet we must look after it if we can before all the resources are used up.I would hate to think of my grandchildren's grandchildren living on a huge rubbish tip.

Caterina

I am glad that frugal is not the "new" normal for us, but just the "regular" normal. It is going to help when DH retires on a not very big pension and I still have 7 years before getting mine.

babyblooz

Jackie O, your post reminds me of a saying I once heard

'this earth is not ours, it is loaned to us by our children'.


Recycling is one of the things we can do to make sure we don't leave them a huge mess when we've gone.

meritaten

our council supplied us with a 'waste food' recycling thingy, all cooked and uncooked food waste can goin there if wrapped in newspaper or the bio food waste bags. um , we also have another bin which was abandoned in which we put uncooked waste (peelings mostly and eggshells and the cats fur).
other 'stuff' gets divided between recyclable and non recyclable waste for the green and brown bins. and last week I didn't have to put out the green bin! (non recyclable)!