KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Igamogam

A trip to the recycle centre with odd bits that have been hanging around. Watching people whilst I was there they have no bl00dy clue about recycling,passing on, re purposing etc etc I am beginning to get more an more frustrated with our consumer driven, throw away, buy more, waste more world we live in:mad: I have come to the conclusion that 1. people dont get it and 2. they dont care. One person took a pumpkin lantern out of his boot and asked one of the centre employees where it should go. He was told in NON RECYCLABLE HOUSEHOLD WASTE.... I went over to him and said he could put it in the food waste bin and he looked at me incredulously and said "its a halloween lantern not food!" So I put him straight and said "No. Its a pumpkin and some people eat them".......he still put it in non recyclable and proceeded to empty 2 bin bags of DVDs into the household waste skip:mad::mad: I give up...........didnt help that I went on to Toscos and plastic tat halloween rubbish has now been replaced by Christmas plastic tat rubbish........where will it end:(

Also dropped off a small bag to CS. Unusually I bought myself a book 29p and a large Peroni glass DD2 likes them ( probably liberated from a pub by someone!) for 49p and a Cath Kidst*ne bag that will do nicely for work and just what I was looking for, for £1.

A few items put on fr**gle and some things on Eb*y plus an NCT sale next week where I will be selling lots of stuff I no longer use for work - kids books games toys.........my way of protesting against Gov cuts to education/county councils! For too long I have subsidised resources and it had obviously just been taken for granted by senior managers..........they could afford to buy themselves new laptops but not replace some of our broken/out of date resources....so I have removed what I have provided

*feeling bolshi*:cool::eek::rotfl:

GreyQueen

Igamogam, I feel like you. It makes me sick to my stomach to see the sheer unbridled wastefulness going on a the tip (and elsewhere) I truly think we live in a world of absolute freaking insanity wrt material goods.


I go to what would probably be (in some people's eyes) ridiculous lengths to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem, but it is heart-breaking to see such unnecessary destruction of resources which should be shared, repurposed and given a second life.:(

firebubble

Agreed, Igamogam and GQ. More people do seem to be gradually waking up to what it means to buy a plastic halloween trick or treat bucket for 50p which is slung into landfill on 1 November, but I wonder whether the shops have noticed any impact on the plastic tut they sold this year compared to last? I certainly didn't notice any reduction in quantity of what was on the shelves.

DundeeDoll

I tried to do an eco halloween this year. the sweets were wrapped i'm afraid so need to try harder on that one. i'm not keen on pumpkin so bought a terracota jack-o-lantern a few years back and use that each year. i still have a halloween plastic bowl i bought in 2000 so use that for sweets.

DD2 made the spaniels spider costumes from old tights. the jack russell had the skeleton costume dd2 had bought one of the spaniels when he was a pup and that i found last weekend during the MKing of my wardrobe :-) it is now washed, dried on the line and put away for next year.

I now have two empty drawers, i love everything in my wardrobe (a couple of things do need mending, that's on the list) didn't manage to MK today as have a 7000 piece to finish for Monday (up to 5181 but whose counting lol) as someone helpfully said on this thread when i joined not so long ago, we make our own rules. and i'm now not panicking that MK says 6 months. The first 2 weeks have already been transformational

Pooky

DD - you're going great guns....but can I ask about your signature? Never eat pears?

Karmacat

Pooky wrote: »

DD - you're going great guns....but can I ask about your signature? Never eat pears?

What Pooky said :j


DD, I love your description of working on an eco halloween. The terracotta pumpkin sounds a really good idea.

greent

DundeeDoll - also love the terracotta pumpkin idea. We had 'normal' pumpkins and sadly no one likes the flesh (believe me, I've really tried) so some went to compost bin and the 2 hollowed out pumpkins are sat up on a platform (so out of the way of hedgehogs) for squirrels to get - we have squirrels in that part of our garden quite often (and now have 2 tiny nut trees growing courtesy of them! ) Remains will then be composted.

Regards sweets and wrappers - I must admit, as a parent I wouldn't let my children eat any unwrapped sweets from unknown places - there was an incident locally this year of a needle being used to join 2 gummy sweets together! :eek:

luxor4t

Pooky wrote: »

DD - you're going great guns....but can I ask about your signature? Never eat pears?

I think I know.... "they are too squishy and always make your chin wet." :cool2:

Sayschezza

Dr Who quote?

luxor4t

In other news, I was wrapping Xmas presents yesterday afternoon. (I buy through the year and always something that the recipient will like and use.)

While I was at it, I did an audit of my "Christmas hoard" - which means I won't rush out and overbuy in some kind of traumatic panic. It is an unusual thing to get upset about, I know, but I think I have worked out why I get overwhelmed. Anyway:

- I used up some of the 29p M&S wrapping paper from January 2017, but there are still 5 rolls of various designs to go before I can finally start using recyclable paper.

- I also finished another packet of tags - bought several years ago. We are good for several years.

- I used the 4for£1 gift bags I bought last month and the rest came from the stash.

- The card stash is still going strong - it should take another 2 or 3 years to use them all even after passing on two full packets and 30 loose cards (bagged) to the CS.

- I also took the CS some decorations that had materialised under the attic bed. I swear they weren't there last time I looked!

- We have enough 'seasonal' paper plates, cups and a table cloth. They don't match but will look fine together for the family buffet on Christmas Eve. I might buy a pack of napkins ….:eek: …. if DH promises to drag me away once I have picked them up.


- I should not have bought crackers last month, even if they were part of a 3for2 deal with calendars and diaries. We found a box of 6 and a part used pack in the hoard. Bother. Anyway, we are good for crackers until 2020 - unless we have an influx of guests _party_

So much joy was sparked