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

greent

Katiehound said:

ladyholly said:

Ours is a recycling centre but the only people recycling are the council. Nothing can be removed once its there. As I said its heartbreaking to see unwanted but perfectly good items in the skips ready to go to landfill.

Ditto : exactly this

This is the same as ours too - except I think some goes to be incinerated now, rather than landfill

tooldle

We have a couple of local amenity sites. These feed items that can be easily salvaged and sold, to the main tip site for it's shop 'Tip Treasures'. The shop is promoted via Facebook with photos of stock etc. 

CKhalvashi

tooldle said:

We have a couple of local amenity sites. These feed items that can be easily salvaged and sold, to the main tip site for it's shop 'Tip Treasures'. The shop is promoted via Facebook with photos of stock etc. 

Could you PM me details of that?

I'm meeting with our Mayor in about an hour (or whenever I can be bothered to go into the town centre this morning, we've agreed on coffee but not specifically a time) and I'd love to speak about something like this with him.

tooldle

@CKhalvashi Here is the council's webpage Tip Treasures - reuse shop - Swansea
 If you look for Swansea Recycles on Faceboo, you should find posts from the shop re their stock.

CKhalvashi

tooldle said:

@CKhalvashi Here is the council's webpage Tip Treasures - reuse shop - Swansea
 If you look for Swansea Recycles on Faceboo, you should find posts from the shop re their stock.

Thank you very much Tooldle! I'll have a chat when I go out shortly

euronorris

So much to catch up on. Been a busy week or so with DH away for his birthday (where one of the party fell over and broke his hip and had to wait 3 hours for an ambulance), we got new bed for us (ours had broken and been repaired multiple times) and new bed for DD (at 6, it was time to admit she'd outgrown her cotbed! Lol), a cold and bad news about DH's best friend's health (cancer has spread to the brain).

I will have a small balance accrued with BG by the time they bill at the end of this month. Circa £100. Can't be doing with the faff of drawing it out, holding in savings etc and then paying it out again for such a small gain for us. I know the energy companies likely benefit because of that, but I have enough going on at the moment, I'm not adding to the load.

BG emailed a few weeks back to confirm that our DD will be collected as usual, and they will then 'refund' us the £66 each month. That already seems a faff. I'm sure there is reasoning behind it, but feels counter intuitive to me!

Being more savvy with electric use where we can. Making sure nothing on standby etc. I also topped up with a few more fleece blankets for the house. One from Dunelm, and two from IKEA at £2 each (this is an IKEA family price member but you can sign up for free), so that was a bargain.

sammy_kaye18

Afternoon all
Well I have been out and picked another 3 huge cucumbers from the plant so will sit and chop those this afternoon. 4 still growing and several more starting to grow. Plus I repotted 3 more plants yesterday so fingers crossed they will all produce too but a bit later so I have a continuous stream of them. 

Just managed to get 6 spray deodorants for £2 on a facebook bargain page so they are coming on thursday and will go under my sink in my extras cupboard for the bathroom etc. Its a unisex one too so all of us in the house can use it. I need to find a bathroom under sink storage thing so I can start putting things in there and not taking up space underneath my kitchen sink. 


Just been over to visit my mother in law as well who is complaining that the price of butter has shot up by 25p a pack and that she wasnt happy. Suggested she made her own and she said it might come to that! 

Also saw on tiktok the other day that a lady had started a box with non perishable things(or long BBE) dates on and was buying extra things for christmas to store away and she would open it nearer to Christmas. I usually have a christmas cupboard but knowing how much my household like to graze I think I might try this and hide it away in another room somewhere safe.

Also have just cleared out the back room and sprayed the mould that is in there. Hoping to try and treat each room gradually so I can start repainting and doing rooms up so my lesson today was how to fit a bath panel. Fairly confident I can do it myself but if I wait for my husband to do it then it will never get done. Just need to wait for pay day now to order the panel! 

Other than that not much else - daughter had online school today and back in tomorrow so I will get her shirts ironed in a minute and her uniform hung up ready. Son is back in college already, husband is in work so I plan to use tomorrow as mums day and have a day off from running round after everyone else so it may involve coffee and crafting and emptying the TV planner. 

GaleSF63

London_1 said:

I agree, how wasteful it is to bury perfectly good stuff, that can be used by others. I once was taking some no longer needed wooden chairs to our local tip and the chap in the next car asked if he could have them.I said yes, but I will have to give them to you outside as its not allowed on the tip site to swap.
He said great so I put them back into my boot and drove outside and waited and when he came out I gave them to him,he was chuffed to bits and so was I. 

Very shortsighted of councils not to allow this as it would cut down burying goodness knows what into landfill.

The local tip also had a display of gnomes that had been left there, and the chaps that work  there had made a nice display by their shed of them, and it used to make folk smile to see these cheeful stone gnomes waving. The some 'grinch ' sent a complaint to the council and they were told to discard them  
It used to make children sitting waiting for parents in their cars giggle to see these little animals and creatures that had been collected there.

JackieO xx

I was at our local tip today and noticed for the first time that they have a very handsome display of gnomes and other garden ornaments! It might not have registered if I hadn't read your post.
I can't see what on earth there might be to complain about in such a thing.

marycanary

My local tip does not allow any removals. I assume this is because a firm employed by the council operates it and during contract negotiations, it was agreed they could make money on any salvaged materials or goods. It could have been done like this to keep the cost and so the council tax down.

weenancyinAmerica

You can always try hiding items for the holidays in boxes labeled cleaning supplies or sanitary supplies.