Confessions of a very tired old styler. Please join in.

JayJay14

Primrose wrote: »

Caterina - thanks for the hint that Sainsbury's offer a recycling facility for Tetrapak. I hadn't noticed one at ours so must check more carefully because I feel very guilty about throwing ours into the rubbish bin. The problem is that I find them quite difficult to squash up to save space unless I jump on them. What a huge amount of plastic we must waste with all the plastic milk bottles in this country. With oil reserves running out, I wonder why we can't all return to glass milk bottles like we had as a child where the milkman simply collected them back from the doorstep every morning.

With all the profits made by our supermarkets, I'm surprised they can't institute some giant kegs like beer storage where you simply take your empty plastic milk bottles and fill them up. If this country had another major energy crisis like we did during the last war, they would be forced to come up with an innovative solution to stop all this plastic waste. It really grieves me.

Just a note primrose but try http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/locator.asp

You may find a site near you, not all sainsburys will have one it tends to be a local arrangement. We have them at our local Household Waste Recycling Centres plus one of our 4 Asdas.

dreaming

Although I try my best to reduce/re-use/recycle etc. I sometimes feel as if I spend all my free time washing tins (cat food etc.), sorting plastic, collecting up paper etc. for the recycling bins.

laurel7172

Ironing.

More ironing.

Yet more ironing.

Only I can't iron because all the airers are full of drying washing.

Like I would have done anyway...

There are pieces all over the lawn from the (ebay) greenhouse I was building until snow stopped play two weeks ago. I got out into the garden between the showers today, but there's something not quite right about how the frame is fixed, and somehow I'm going to have to redo it.

I bought a 25kg bag of potatoes this morning, and then bought some washed baking potatoes this afternoon because I was too tired to cook anything else.

wssla00

Funny but gross story to tickle your funny bone....

I was making yoghurt in my easiyo and finished. When it was set I poured it all into the jars I have with some jam- lovely or so I thought, until my friend was eating one and out popped my hairband... complete with hair :eek:

Lucky it wasn't taken as a slight on my domestic goddessness :rotfl:

MUST be more careful!

Primrose

The other day I knocked a ring off the bedside table and it rolled under the bed. Had to shift the bed to get at it and the dust was so thick I could have grown a row of potatoes in it! I tend to vacuum only where I can see these days. Anybody else do this same?

laurel7172

Primrose wrote: »

The other day I knocked a ring off the bedside table and it rolled under the bed. Had to shift the bed to get at it and the dust was so thick I could have grown a row of potatoes in it! I tend to vacuum only where I can see these days. Anybody else do this same?

There's another way????

Mags_cat

laurel7172 wrote: »

There's another way????

If there is...no-one's told me about it :rotfl:

dreaming

Oh god - dust!!! When people were viewing my house (it's now sold) I thought I had better replace the light bulb in the bedroom which had blown about 2 and a half years ago. As have no stepladders, got taller daughter to stand on bedside table to reach (v.high ceilings) and the dust not only made her cough but settled down into the bottom of the shade (it's one of those upside down silk cone styles). Cannot reach to change shade so waiting for a v.tall man to happen by.

dreaming

"I thought I had better replace the light bulb in the bedroom which had blown about 2 and a half years ago."

Just a quick aside re my post about the light bulb. When the survey was done for the HIP energy thingy, they put down that the bedroom light was "non energy saving bulb" - I pointed out that as it hadn't worked for a couple of years that it was the most energy saving bulb of all!:rotfl:

ginnyknit

Darent look up in the living room as theres 3 inches of dust on the lampshade!