Ye Olde Style Coffee Shoppe

Lucie_2

catznine wrote:

Congratulations on your new job Lucie! :T
and well done for being so well disciplined and making plans to save the extra!

Sounds very virtuous doesn't it - but it hasn't actually happened yet!!! I must be strong willed because if I spend it the first month it will be downhill all the way. At least having something to save for will inspire me to not touch it. You must all pester me at the end of next month to make sure I transfer the money!

spendaholic

If you have internet banking you could set it up now ...

Lucie_2

spendaholic wrote:

If you have internet banking you could set it up now ...

true, but I've not worked out the difference yet...................goes to find a calculator...................and last month's payslip............

student100

Strange subject I know, but still... regarding bins, does everyone still have weekly collections?

At home we now have recycling and compost collections one week then the "residual" waste (wheelie bin) collected the following week, i.e. a fortnightly collection. Apparently it has increased recycling participation significantly but it's a pain if you forget to put your bin out or are away the one day a fortnight they collect it...


On the subject of coffee, apparently used coffee grounds make excellent fertilizer/compost.

Lucie_2

student100 wrote:

Strange subject I know, but still... regarding bins, does everyone still have weekly collections?

We alternate between garden waste bin & "regular" bin every other week. Paper & recycling box (glass, tins etc) is collected every week. We did have a "cardboard trial" a few months back but not heard whether they're going to do it permanently.

My regular bin is usually about half full every fortnight & I put most garden waste in my compost bin, so I very rarely put the garden waste bin out - only when we've had a mega grass cutting fest. I only put the paper recycling bag out when it's full or it blows away. Our bin men will take shredded paper away too.

Ticklemouse

We have a weekly rubbish and 'green' collection and the papers are collected every fortnight. That's as far as my council go, but as I pass the recycling place when I take DS2 to playgroup twice a week, I pop in there all the time with my tins, plastic and bottles.

Eliza - re turf in a composter, it's better if you have a 'loam stack' (I think they're called) Cut your turves into squares as you're removing them and place the first lot soil side down on the ground, then the next lot grass side down, so you get grass to grass, then soil to soil, grass to grass etc. Makes a nice neat stack and if you just leave it, it turns into lovely rich soil. My dad told me this and did it at our old house and yes, it worked. Alan Titchmarsh has also demo'd this on Gardener's World or some such prog.

catznine

We have a weekly rubbish collection and then on alternate weeks we have either a glass or paper collection. During the summer months we also have a fortnightly green collection of garden waste.

Did someone mention coffee? read somewhere that coffee grounds can be used in a pincushion to stop pins going rusty!

spendaholic

Our area is in the middle of a trial for the bi-weekly collection - grey bin one week, recyclables the next - but our village is usually one of the last to get anything, so I suppose it's fair that we get this last too.

It seems to be working very well. One woman came on the news saying "Why should I do my bit to help when I'm a busy working mother?". She received the necessary replies.

So, in our village, we still have the wheelie bin collected every week, and the paper bag and bottle box every other week.

But I remember when dustmen were proper men and came in your garden and carried your dustbin on their back - AND put it back again.

student100

Coffee pincushions would surely smell a bit strange... is that fresh coffee grounds or used? If it's fresh I can think of a much better use :coffee::drool:


Our local paper had a field day when they introduced the bi-weekly collection (I think we were pretty much the first council in the country to go for it in a big way)... as usual once people had got used to the change it seems to work OK and has been quite successful by all accounts.

foreverskint

After living in a town were we had by weekly collections and recycling, I've moved to a village where they haven't even heard of 'wheelie Bins' Yet. I've still got old dustbins which must have been with the property for about 9 million years. Still I only manage to fill up two since being on here:D