From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

greenbee

Good to know it all works well everywhere  

Glad you found the info you needed GP. I guess there's always the option to try to renew zero bins

Staffordia

I can't wait for the extra bins we're receiving next year, I just hope our local 'binfluencer' has a handle on which bin needs putting out. 

Greying_Pilgrim

Staffordia said:

I can't wait for the extra bins we're receiving next year, I just hope our local 'binfluencer' has a handle on which bin needs putting out. 

"Tish boom" - are you here all week Staffordia? 🤣

Greying X

beanielou

4 bins here. 2 go out fortnightly & 2 go out 4 weekly. 

teapot2

6 bins/boxes/bags here including paid for garden waste one which has a sticker with a qr code to check next collection date.  No pro rata option or refund if you move and no option to sign up mid year 🙄.  Council wouldn't collect unused bins from folk who didn't sign up so theres lots kicking about 😥.

Four bins/boxes/bags are emptied weekly and non recyclable bin is emptied 3 weekly.

Greying_Pilgrim

Blimey beanie - does your council double up as the local Mensa outlet?  🤣

So homework has finally been complete before tea - YAY!  Although we still need to use the reading book for homework exercises, LG has actually finished reading the book - and has rated it 9/10.  Which, naturally, I'm super chuffed about, as it was a chazzer shop purchase on a bit of a whim....... 😉

Tea was Sweet potato and chickpea mongolian stew, which was a recipe from the Royal Marsden cancer cookbook that I got from the library eons ago.  I didn't put cream in it (always thought it was a strange ingredient for a 'healthy' cookbook), but I did add in the remains of the frozen mixed veg bag and 5 lumps of spinach as it cooked.  I cooked up the last of the brown basmati rice.  It was another 'clean plates all round' night and there was a small portion of rice and a small portion of stew leftover.  The rice has gone in the freezer and I will eat the portion of stew for lunch tomorrow.  The sweet potatoes were the 2 left over from the MrL PoTW bag, the chickpeas were from the batch that I cooked up a couple of months ago and froze, and I managed to finish up the mixed veg bag and the basmati rice container.  More stuff emptied, and used purposefully.

The third quote has come in from the window company.  They are having a giraffe.  Either that or they don't want the work - or perhaps I forgot to tell them that I no longer required the diamond encrusted handles 🤔 I'm pretty sure they can be discounted.  Although perhaps I ought to accept the advice of the sales rep and seek the opinion of my husband first....... 🙄

We won't be renewing our green bin pass, so that's a bit of money 'saved'.  Should it be required, we can still take green waste to the tip, so we'll rely on that.  I don't think that has been required this year, so if we set up the composting of grass (with vegetable waste, which you can't put in the green bin anyway), we should be good.  

I can't think of anything else MSE, so I'll push orf.

Ta for popping by.  Greying X

badmemory

I once had a window sales person who when he found ouot DS lives with me wanted to see him before he actually quoted.  Well that was a no.  I wish I coulld say it was unbelievable.

greenbee

Any sales rep who tells me to speak to my husband/asks to come back when he's here is immediately turfed out. 

Greying_Pilgrim

greenbee said:

Any sales rep who tells me to speak to my husband/asks to come back when he's here is immediately turfed out. 

Luckily it was towards the end of the appt - but I'm pretty sure that particular sales rep has worked for a company that we did use in our previous property.   They lied about an aspect of the fit, and had I known they were going to turn up for this 'new' company, I would have cancelled the appointment.  

I am in awe of all of you with umpteen boxes/wheelie bins to juggle on a weekly/fortnight/3 weekly basis.  Crikey.

Greying X

Baileys_Babe

Greying_Pilgrim said:

 The only thing we are low on is milk - and we managed to make that last the final day, last week, so I'll double check we could do that again.  The carton is low tho.

Would it be worth buying some dried milk powder so you could make up a small quantity to supplement the fresh milk and saving you from needing to make a special trip?