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mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 05 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Giraffe: why does you dog look so worried? Does he/she think 'I'm about to be recycled!'?

Helen_A



Joined: 26 Jan 2005
Posts: 1548
Location: MK, Bucks.
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 05 12:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm in the midst of major decluttering - unfortunately not much of it is really for recycling, and we don't have a freecycle here Oh and the local playgroup doesn't take 'junk' anymore as apparently junk modelling is a H&S risk

I'd agree with the poster who warns about things expanding to fill the space!! I used to live in a one bed flat but we now fill this two bed house The garden is nice, well was nice veg-wise cos its currently grassed over after we realised that the veg patch was putting buyers off...

Now all I have to do is find a way not to have buyers split up two days from exchange.... anyone want a nice two bed in East Sussex?

Helen_A

nettie



Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 05 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Oh **groan** - I'm so fed up with my one bed flat being filled to the rafters with all sorts of stuff - old clothes I'll one day get round to using as rags; bottles and jars waiting for sterilising, for when I finally get round to making preserves out of all the fruit that is overflowing the freezer; boxes of crap that I keep meaning to car boot or give to charity; squashes drying on newspaper on the floor; mushrooms drying over the radiators; a box of gardening implements that would be so much better in the shed but I can't face the thought of accidentally pulling out a spider when I go to get the trowel.

It's like handbags, isn't it ladies. You fill it to its' capacity. If you get a bigger one, that ends up overflowing too. I daren't move to a bigger house, ever.

selfsufficientish



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 364
Location: Bristol
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 05 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nettie I hope my girlfriend does not read this she is worse than me for hording. Our house seems full of handbag each full of differnet things for different occasions. I must admit I dont get the hand bag thing

kiwi



Joined: 12 Sep 2005
Posts: 73
Location: new zealand
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 05 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi

in NZ you have to pay to take stuff to the dump unless its in proper council bags which you have to pay $1.25 for.
in Christchurch next to the refuse station there is a shop called Supershed where people offload their stuff instead of having to pay to get rid of it its a real eyeopener !! people buy one foot off a fridge and there is stuff there you would feel embarrassed to put in the bin!!
I have noticed that people use things to death here and although they think it is getting a more throwaway society it is a long way from UK, I feel as if I am slowly converting to the kiwi mentality of making do with things which can only be good.
sorry for going off topic but it was kind of related!!
And I agree that more space = more stuff !!

giraffe



Joined: 07 Oct 2005
Posts: 272
Location: Nottingham
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 05 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Quote:
Giraffe: why does you dog look so worried? Does he/she think 'I'm about to be recycled!'?


He has always had the look of a dog with the weight of the world upon his shoulders - furrowed brow and concerned look. I think he's playing for sympathy myself (either that or pigs ears)

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 05 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Giraffe, tell him form me he's a handsome chap! JRs are my faves, but I don't have any as I'd be mortified if they went after the neighbour's sheep. Don't really need one, either!

giraffe



Joined: 07 Oct 2005
Posts: 272
Location: Nottingham
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 05 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I will tell him what you said, but really I think he's big headed enough as it is. I think in my dog's case, sheep would be more likely to worry him - he'd run away scared to his mummy!

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 05 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I know what you mean: some of the sheep won at this year's sheep dog trials here.

Mrs Fiddlesticks



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 05 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

jamsam wrote:
Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:


I wish I knew the answer...


im inclined to answer that some more community thought could help. the lady down the road with the need for jars who will give you fire wood, etc etc. the only problem is people dont like thier neighbours or thier neighbourhoods any more.


you paint a lovely picture of rural bliss and in this small village where I live you'd think it would be like that. I do know my neighbours ( and have certainly bartered stuff from the plot with fellow plot holders) but... none of them as far as I know do as I do and make stuff, certainly not jam. (did I say we're called Tom and Barbara! )

jamsam



Joined: 21 Oct 2005
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Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 05 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

its abit idealist i know, but when did we all stop liking our neighbours? i was brought up in and out of the next door houses and thier kids are like sisters to me. my two boys have to put up with weirdo teenage scarrey people with babaies and a pub..its only the 'older' couple next door who will talk to us...maybe its me...
im definatly in the scrapstore/junk/charity shop school of thought but i will still cringe when my mum stops at a skip to rummage.

jamsam



Joined: 21 Oct 2005
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Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 05 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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I'd agree with the poster who warns about things expanding to fill the space!! I used to live in a one bed flat but we now fill this two bed house The garden is nice, well was nice veg-wise cos its currently grassed over after we realised that the veg patch was putting buyers off...

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i would aree that a veg patch might put people off, but that was a search criteria for us when we moved, and we found plenty of houses/small holdings with realy good veg gardens.

Lozzie



Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 05 12:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Helen_A - you could always start your own Freecycle in your area, you know. You'd probably be hailed as a local hero!

jamsam sometimes it is just that you have nothing in common with your neighbours, as is the case with me. I have to work hard at basic conversations with them, let alone any kind of cooperative living exercise! But my advice would be at least to TRY and make progress with the people living near you - "nothing ventured, nothing gained" sort of thing.

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