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Well, that’s stopped my little plan …..!

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11436) • United Kingdom 13 Mar

I posted earlier that I had cleared out a big cupboard in my kitchen and had almost filled our bin and had several bags ready to be thrown away. I asked The Mister to come with me over the road to put the bags in our dearly...

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6 bags of rubbish and a dozen bottles ……

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11436) • United Kingdom 13 Mar

Yes, I am definitely feeling better and my mojo is coming back….. After being out of action for almost a year , I am now starting to feel more like ‘ me ‘. I have started with some side hustles ….selling various things, it brings...

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Would you report someone dropping litter on purpose ?

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11436) • United Kingdom 30 Jan

This is a subject I heard being discussed on the radio yesturday. You know how it is , you have a snack or some fast food whilst in the car ….what do you do with the wrapping? Take it home with you and put it in your bin or throw...

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People are weird!

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 4 Dec

I’m sure I have said this before, but the things people do never fail to surprise me. This morning I walked to the bus stop with Little One, then as I started to walk back a woman hurried past me. I think she was rushing to catch...

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Today's haul

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 7 Oct

Today I went to the recycling centre/ tip, to get rid of the rusty remains of an old wheelbarrow (which we already recycled as a barbecue, but now the entire bottom has rusted away!), some empty gas canisters from camping, and a...

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6 months of bad rubbish

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11436) • United Kingdom 11 Sep

So here in the UK ….in Birmingham ….the bin men have been on strike for 6 months now. As you would expect the strike is because they want more money. Birmingham council have recently gone bankrupt, so I’m not sure where they think...

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It’s bin day …..again ….oh the joys of being an adult !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11436) • United Kingdom 31 Aug

Do you remember when you were a child and you would dream of when you would be an adult …..you could do what you wanted when you wanted and no one would stop you ! In reality, you go to work at a time and place they tell you You...

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What A load of rubbish …..They have all missed bin day…….

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11436) • United Kingdom 5 Aug

So we have three bins. The household rubbish and the recycling bins are put out one week and the garden waste gets put out the following week. As The Mister is away during the week he always puts our bin / s out on a Sunday...

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Too cute for the tip!

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 1 Aug

The other day I went to the local recycling centre to get rid of a few sacks of weeds, a couple of old camping chairs that even I can’t revive, and some rocks. As I tossed the rocks into the rubble skip – which is also the same...

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Leaving stuff out for the ‘ tatters ‘

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11436) • United Kingdom 25 Jul

So I’m not sure what you call them in your part of the world. In the UK they are called tatters …or…rag and bone men. They are the people who drive round looking for rubbish that people have thrown out ….metal objects can be sold...

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We are getting yet another bin !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11436) • United Kingdom 29 Jun

So we have heard this week that from sometime next year we are to get another bin ….we currently have 3. This new bin is going to be just for food waste. I think an idea might be to be able to buy smaller quantities of things. For...

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Oh my days ......how spiteful ....I am so annoyed !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11436) • United Kingdom 6 Jun 25

A neighbour has had a skip delivered to get rid of loads of stuff. My partner spoke to him last week, before the ship arrived, and had some items and gave him some money for them. he talked at some length with him saying he would...

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Just in time!

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 10 Oct 24

Today is ‘bin day’, when our rubbish or recycling is collected. Normally we put our bins on the roadside on Wednesday evening ready for collection Thursday morning, but yesterday we all clean forgot. I only remembered when I was...

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At last!

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 20 May 24

When we (mostly my partner I admit) dug out our garden pond four years ago it generated a lot of soil, rocks and clay subsoil. We filled several skips (dumpsters) with the clay, and that costs hundreds of pounds to get rid of so...

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The place to get a mirror!

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 15 May 24

I wrote a couple of months ago about how I found two nice mirrors in the rubble skip at the recycling centre when I went to get rid of some rocks. I am so sick of looking at this pile of rocks (from when we dug out our pond four...

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Was this mean?

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 3 May 24

As I’ve often mentioned, I’m a keen user of ‘Freegle’, where you pass on unwanted things, or ask for things other people might have going spare. Since I started (on what was then Freecycle) in 2003 I must have Freegled many...

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Three happy people!

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 26 Mar 24

A couple of years ago we created a large pond in our garden, but the snag was that we were then left with big piles of topsoil, even bigger piles of clay subsoil and two heaps of rocks. And they’re not even good quality rocks,...

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Another useful find

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 11 Jan 24

As I’ve doubtless said before, I never pass a skip without a quick look to see if anyone is throwing anything useful away. And a few months ago I found the Christmassy headband shown. I thought it would be just the thing when...

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Today’s bonus!

Fleur @Fleura (35069) • United Kingdom 27 Sep 23

A few days ago someone on Freegle asked for some clothes hangers. I offered as we have far too many, but the person said we were too far away as they were recovering from surgery and couldn’t travel far. So I said I would drop...

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Book Review - Andrew Sugar - The Cult Breaker

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 20 Aug 22

1979 - Manor Books I sometimes quite enjoy books that are utter rubbish as much as the great classics and this certainly qualifies as entertaining crap. As someone who escaped from a cult I do read lots of books about them,...

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