It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

ladyholly

Glastonbury do recycle but my question is why are they left in the first place. If you can carry stuff there you can carry it home. My husband attends festivals organised by a certain group and their ethos is leave no trace and they dont. The only sign they have been is flattened grass and tracks on the ground if its muddy. Those attendinding have all kinds of vehicles from cars to good size motor homes. They do have skips and people use them for their rubbish and do not not leave tents plus equipment and rubbish all over the field. 

It is such a shame that people think it is ok to expect others to clear up after them and have to pay people to do that. Tickets might be cheaper if people took their rubbish home with them or at least put it in bins and skips which are certainly available at Glastonbury. Sorry rubbish is one of my bugbears.

Floss

Actually Glastonbury in 2019 had over 99% of tents taken home. 

YoungBlueEyes

I knew a bunch of young lads that used to go to Glasto.  They'd get a 6 man tent for a few quid off fleabay or somewhere, and left it.  For such little money it wasn't worth the hassle of trying to pack it away again (whilst either still pished or green with a hangover).  

skogar

Bear in mind that you will need to renew - in theory the notification asts 2 years but often in practice I've found it doesn't seem to last that long before you start getting the letters again.

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@skogar different strokes for different folks, just sharing my personal experience of dealing with them which has been a positive one 😊

skogar

Floss - good that they have managed to improve the number of tents left so much. Hopefully they can get the number left down as well this year. Looks like the message is starting to get through.

-taff

When I lived in my flat I had no tv, I had a computer [this was before streaming tv was a thing], I also took out the aerial point because it was useless to me. Some guy came round, knocked on my door after buzzing someone else to let him in, asked me who I was, I told him none of his business, then he said let me in, I need to check, I said not a chance in hell, he said right then, I'll be back with the police and we'll smash down your door. That's my experiece of dealing with the BBC who rebranded themselves as TVL so as not to get the public confused that they could be such bullying morons. He never did come back.

And BTW, there are no such thing as detector vans, they just fit them with aerials to look threatening or vaguely sixties sci fi.

freyasmum

I cannot keep up with you all! Haha. 

£40,000 sounds like a fab income - and indeed it's definitely not small. But it works out around £2,500 a month and the thing that matters to how well off you feel is what's left after essential bills are paid. If it's on LBC, let's assume the original man was in/near London.

I live in a commuter town for London and our old house - a perfectly average-sized end of terrace 3 bed - came up for rent recently at £1,400 a month. The council tax is £164. Our utilities currently cost £177, which is roughly the same as we paid there. Water is £43.

That's £1784 before you take into account insurances, TV, phone bills, Internet, etc. Say £100. How much would home repairs/white goods replacement cost per month? It seems like there's always something to fix! 

It would take my OH 2.5 hours to get to work, and then the same back if public transport were even an option (it isn't, given that he sometimes finishes at 1:30 am). That would cost £400 a month by public transport (not including the taxi he'd take after a late shift to save a 35 minute walk at 3:30).

Now we're up to £2284. That's £216 a month to pay for everything else including food and cleaning products, school uniform (one school skirt and blazer costs £60) and shoes (we were super lucky and managed to get a pair of clarks for my 5 year old for £15; my teenagers were £55), days out (probably more travel), any travel to see family, haircuts (my sons haircut is £10 during the week or £15 at the weekend, OHs is £15 a pop).

It also doesn't take into account any medication costs, or birthday or Christmas spends. It's not the luxury life people immediately imagine, with £50 notes being flicked out everywhere. 

Now, if we were to use figures from where i used to live, rent and council tax would be about £480. And there would be an extra nearly £1,100 a month to play with - that would feel rich! 

JIL

sammyjammy said:

London_1 said:

Florenceem said:

London_1 - that is a very good idea.
Two of the local supermarkets have been to visit our food bank and seen how low stocks are. So we are being allowed to collect items for the food bank on some dates coming up. Now we need volunteers to cover all the 2 hour slots in the sms.
Our local shelter is full and the number of homeless is increasing. While I was helping at SA today - we had a request for sleeping bags. Also had a visit from some Ukranian refugees.

Yet this weekend Glastonbury will have thousands there who when they leave will leave tents etc behind for someone else to throw away How many tents and sleeping bags will be abandoned there I wonder and how much use could it be for the homeless. This happens at many festivals up and down the county,if only they could be collected washed and reused it would
 help so many people. Fantastic that you have got local supermarkets involved, if only this could be expanded There is such a lot of kindness out there and often it just needs a spark to get folk galvanised. Jack Monroe got folk thinking a few years ago, I wish the media would get behind a scheme like this as I'd bet a pound to a penny everyone who could help,even a little bit would. We are basically a pretty good natured helpful country as a rule I just wish we could get more things moving instead of the news banging on about the bad stuff all the time

JackieO xx 

Plenty of festivals gather them up and pass them on to homeless charities etc, I am sure Glastonbury will do the same, they have a very high ethos of reuse and recycle.

I can confirm they do. My relatives get a Glastonbury free pass, in exchange for doing the big tidy up afterwards and part of this is sorting out tents and sleeping bags which are sorted and donated to various charities. 

London_1

Good to hear that at last something is done to recycle unwanted tents and sleeping bags I live in the supposed south east where according to the media everyone is rolling in it .

So wrong as the Medway has a large homeless population.I used to be involved in raising awareness and helping.Before age and infirmity took over.
There was a lady who slept under the Medway bridge for over a year. There were many homeless ex-soldiers, as we have the Royal Engineers stationed in Chatham. and that's apart from the dispossessed of Gillingham.

There are many rough sleepers in what is allegedly a rich area of the country , but then the media like to whip up friction between north v south.
That's before we get the poor souls who land on the beaches in Dover thinking its the land of milk and honey and it really isn't.

Housing almost anywhere is at a premium, more so in the south of the country, we may have the jobs ,but with scarcity of housing they can't be filled. a depressing circle of a Catch 22

My youngest DD is a lettings manager for a company, and has been an estate agent for over 12 years, she says she has long lists of people desperate to find accomodation and few houses available for them. Our local council struggle to cope and rents here are astronomical. There just isn't enough done to be able to accomodate the demand at the moment and I can't see it getting better. We had a chap living in a bus shelter not long ago throughout last winter in fact and the pub across the road from him used to let him use their loo when open and often would give him a hot meal. Even the local country park had folk living in tents. Its so sad that in the 21st century we are seeing things returning to the time of Dickens and poverty on a scale that is growing daily.  

I don't know what the answer is, but I can't see things improving  

Watching TV last night there was the CEO of Asda's saying folk are limiting themselves to £30.00 spends and cutting back left right and centre.The people interviwed all said that belt tightening and down labelling their groceries was the first thing they were doing. Hopefully, at least there maybe less food waste than there was. 

I try to do a bit to help with the extra bit into the food bins at the supermarkets If everyone did just one thing everytime they went to the big stores it may help a little.
Every supermarket locally to me has a food basket on the way out the door, so even if its only one thing when you get your weekend shopping think of the folk, maybe your neighbours , food poverty has no bounderies, who could benefit. 
one of my neighbours is a single Mum with two delightfull little girls and when I go away next week what's left in my fridge I will knock on the door as I usually do, and ask her if she can help me out rather than me binning food as I can't take it away with me .Bless her she's a lovely lass, and the kids are dear little souls. I would rather pass on my spare stuff than bin it and I know it will be used up. 'Every little helps' as is said by Tesco's  

JackieO xx