Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet 🍵

Allotment Boy · February 2020

Oh dear @Lizzie27 I'm sure you could all do without the extra stress, this is the problem with cost cutting & "rationalisation" . They put all the facilities in one place but then there is no spare capacity.

Lyn · February 2020

Has anyone seen the new Specsavers ad, the machine can detect problems 4 years ahead, that will give us time to book our hospital appointments.

wild edges · February 2020

I'm getting sick at the stuff people throw away.

One neighbour has chucked some Ikea shelving units out in the rain, another has filled a skip with kitchen units that could easily have been reused. It's so easy to give away or recycle stuff like that now, there's even a local charity that will collect the stuff and use it for good purposes. If they hadn't been wrecked by the weather I'd have saved them just for garage storage.

KT53 · February 2020

I'll tell you one reason people throw things away. When my father died my mother phone a large charity to see if they wanted clothes. Arrangements were made for them to be collected and the collector started to rip a bag open. My mother stopped them and asked what they thought they were doing. The response was they needed to check to make sure they weren't being given rubbish! Collector was out of the door without anything and the clothes all went in the bin.

Similarly, and much more recently, when my neighbour died, their son contacted another large charity to see if they wanted any of the furniture which included an almost new 3 piece suite. They came to collect but said they only wanted the chairs, not the settee. They too, were sent off with a flea in their ear and another charity contacted which did want the lot.

B3 · February 2020

You do get some MOGs working in charity shops sometimes. But there's always another shop a few doors down the road - around here anyway.

Dovefromabove · February 2020

Of course this wasn’t the case in your instance, but sadly there are folk who will dump rubbish on charities rather than get rid of it through the proper channels. It makes charity collectors very wary.

Also there are legal requirements about the sale of upholstered furniture ... if a charity cannot sell the sofa legally they will not accept it ... it would be counter productive for them to use their charity’s hard earned funds to pay to dispose of it at a tip ... and they would have to pay as charity shops are usually charged as a business.

On the other hand some places will accept chairs (if they have a wooden frame) as they can be stripped down and sold on as upholstery projects.

Dovefromabove · February 2020

Grrrr! A heavily accented ‘Trevor’ just rang and asked if I was Mrs Bailey ... I am not ... nevertheless he continued and asked whether I was the owner of the telephone line ... I confirmed that I am ... he then explained that he was ‘the management of the Telephone Preference Service’ .... I said angrily that he was not, and that he was a scammer and that he should get off what we had already established was MY LINE!!! 🤬.

He didn’t say anything else ...

I do sometimes feel sorry for these callers ... they’re just doing a job to feed their families ... they probably don’t even know what they’re doing is illegal ... in a way they’re being scammed as well .... it’s their bosses who are the villains 👮‍♀️

Lyn · February 2020

Scammers out in full force here this morning, if you don't speak when you answer the phone, they can’t connect to your number and just cut off. If it’s anyone who is genuine, they will say hello, are you there. Scammer can’t do that.

Here’s my post from last night, should have posted on this thread. Rubbish! Drives me mad.

Did anyone see the news tonight, people are sending clothes to Africa, they have mountains of them, they can’t use them, apparently Uk is the worse country in Europe for throwing away clothes. Those T shirts used for one day for a charity event or pop concert, they don’t want those so just throw away.
Young people won’t wear the same thing twice, throw it away!
Oh well, something else for us to use on the bonfire.
My OH says they should keep them here, bundle them up and give them to people in flood areas.

Allotment Boy · February 2020

We don't like throwing stuff away either that's why having our heating redone has been a bigger job than it would have, as we have had to move a lot of things to make space for them to work. We will have to go through it all before we put back too much. Trouble is we have things from my parents house & from my late Brother, trying to find suitable outlets is hard I see see much of it being discarded in the end because there is no suitable outlet. An example is some of my brothers artwork and all his photographs he was only an amateur most of it only means something to us but we can't realistically keep it all.

Liriodendron · February 2020

You have my sympathy, @Allotment Boy. We have a lot of things inherited from both sets of parents which we don't actually need, but need to find a good home for - some lovely china from ma-in-law, far too many books from my dad, odd bits of furniture... we managed to give some to charities before leaving England but we need to find out the best way to carry on the good work here.

Re waste: we are having an air-to-water heating system fitted. The newly-built extension has aluminium radiators, the most efficient to use with the system, but we got the plumber to agree that the nearly-new steel radiators in the rest of the house could be re-used in the main (some wouldn't be big enough to provide enough heat). Now we find they're only re-using one, because the heat pump manufacturer doesn't recommend doing so. We are in the process of trying to find someone who can make use of the old ones - we don't want money for them, just not to have them wasted.

Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet 🍵

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