Hugh's War on Waste

Pollycat

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

I've just bought one of the new LG OLED TV's and noticed that it'll record to a hard disc/thumb drive.

Well - have you really?

Let's hope you don't lose your job and home anytime soon because people may just be talking about you when your 'stuff' - I guess that will include your LG OLED TV and your Miele washing machine - is being hauled out on the pavement in exactly the same way you are talking about these people;

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

Again, there's currently a series on Channel 5 about high court bailiff's evicting people from rented accommodation and the number of people with possessions that are completely at odds with there circumstances is extraordinary. And before you comment theses people don't look like the victims of sudden and unforeseen circumstances they look like they've spent most of there lives 'bumping along the bottom'

moneyistooshorttomention

Sits back and checks the time and thinks "According to a count of yesterdays posts and the time they started - I think the first of many will be up between 9am-10am today".

Sets stopwatch and wonders whether to head for the bookies to lay a bet on it...

But, more seriously = is there any chance of us getting back on topic again?

GrannyKate

We first got a dishwasher in about 1989. I was working night shifts and coming home to yesterday's washing up was horrible. So when we had an unexpected £200 to spare we got a dish washer and I have had one ever since. I remember we did not have a video player at the time and the children were horrified that we did not get one of those rather than the dishwasher. I currently have a built in one with my newish kitchen. We still do quite a bit of hand washing up and some items do not go in Dw anyway and probably turn it on about 5 times a week. More if lots of cooking going on.

I probably would spend more on a washing machine if I really thought it would last longer - I think this is the modern equipment I value most - probably linked to childhood memories of the old copper boiler, the mangle and later taking bags of washing to launderette.

Nargleblast

I suppose in good times, when the money is coming in, most people save up and buy the best quality equipment they can afford, as it is often true that you get what you pay for. However, none of us know what is round the corner. Your employer goes bust suddenly and you are jobless. You have a serious accident or a serious illness that renders you unable to work for some time, maybe for ever. All of a sudden the income stream starts drying up and you are at the mercy of the benefits system. Some folk might say "You can't be that hard up as you have a huge flat screen telly" but, as previously said, this would have been bought during the good times.

In times of plenty people sometimes get a bit lax about using up every scrap of food, I am sure we have all done it, thrown something out which could have gone into a soup, then felt guilty afterwards. We are all mere humans after all, and are probably very good about not wasting stuff 90% of the time!

Rainy-Days

Good post ^^ Sometimes Nargleblast, it goes onto the credit card as well to be dealt with at a later date.

When we moved up here, my old washing was a Hotpoint and it had, had a good innings coming up to 13 years in fact. Having said that I did look after it and I used to clean it and also run through de-scaling and cleaning washes to keep it working at it's optimum. We said the chances of it packing up when we moved would be high and so we let it go to the neighbour down the road (it's still going strong). We got a brand new one up here delivered and it's not top of the range, it's an AEG and it was under £400.00 but it's a good machine with a five year warranty.

What with moving home and everything else we couldn't afford to spend out on top of the range washing machine. We needed to get a dishwasher (previous one built in) and also a new freezer as well.

The old Hotpoint was around the £400.00 mark when I bought it, so having thirteen years out of it is good going but moreover than that if I had spent £1,500.00 on a Miele and it went up it in year twelve then does it make it any better than the Hotpoint - no it doesn't and it also means I have saved a least a £1,000.00 by having something in the middle. I still think that if you look after stuff it will give years of service!

The other thing is that with white goods and TV's they are recycled and have been for quite a long time now.

Pollycat

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

But, more seriously = is there any chance of us getting back on topic again?

I'd say probably not because the last programme was aired over a week ago and most of us have had our say about the content.

Former_MSE_Andrea

If we could get back on topic that would be great

Don't forget to check out Hugh's War on Waste Guest Comment we published yesterday

Former_MSE_Andrea

Has anyone NOT had to put their food waste bin out this week, or even at all?

Pollycat

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Has anyone NOT had to put their food waste bin out this week, or even at all?

My food waste consisted - as it does most weeks - of potato & carrot peelings, cauliflower/romanesco stalks/leaves, slivers from the stalk ends of mushrooms, brown skin from onions etc etc.

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We unfortunately don't have a food bin supplied by the local council to allow us to dispose of those few things we can't compost.