They're habits that are hard to break. I find it difficult to put b'day and Xmas cards in the bin (good for writing shopping lists on) and as for paper that's only been typed on one side.... After a bit of a clear out of files I now have 3 large piles of that, each the size of a pack of photocopier paper. Only so much scrap paper I need so I the rest will be shredded in batches to go in the compost bin when I have too much green and not enough brown.
Waste not, want not as @Jenny_Aster 's dad might say😁
@BenCotto - that string tin could have joined the pile of paper clips my dad had in his desk. All bent into weird and wonderful shapes and useless as paper clips - but bits of metal to keep 'just in case'.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
@topbird, do you add little addendums to the birthday and Christmas cards and casually leave them in the trolley for the next person to find, read … and ponder.
“PS Thanks for asking, Jack, but the boil is healing nicely without need of the dog’s syringe” or “BTW is was Aunt Vera who fell out of the tree, not the priest next door”.
Same here Topbird, won’t through away anything that will do for a list. I have shopping list, gardening list for me, gardening list for himself. Any old office work after that get scrunched into balls for the compost heap. Old mobile phones, you never know.
I’ve just thrown away some roses as they don’t fit my watering cans, I’ve just seen one, OH has bandaged and taped one to the can! It’s going to leak.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Talking of tins, did anyone watch Sundays Footage detectives, they were showing old tins and said how people kept all sorts of things in them, old bits of paper and string. Mike Read said him mum kept everything, including boxes of chocolates until they gone white.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I'm carefully not looking at the cupboard in the corner which has a very high heap of empty cardboard boxes on the top. I also have a drawer and several storage boxes full of bits of material - old clothes, duvet covers and sheets with holes, etc - that I am sure will be useful for something at some point....
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I'm carefully not looking at the cupboard in the corner which has a very high heap of empty cardboard boxes on the top.
The trick is to start a cardboard box Russian doll and only save the ones that nest well. Of course the useful ones will always be in the middle of the stack.
We took the kids to a farm park yesterday and let them loose on the animals. The kids loved the kids and seemed to accept them as one of their own which tells you all you need to know about kids.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Exotica like broccoli, peppers, radish, leeks,spinach, Jersey potatoes, chillies, string beans, pasta, non - pudding rice, vesta meals, Fray Bentos cow pie were delights that I never experienced until I left home in the 70s
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After a bit of a clear out of files I now have 3 large piles of that, each the size of a pack of photocopier paper. Only so much scrap paper I need so I the rest will be shredded in batches to go in the compost bin when I have too much green and not enough brown.
Waste not, want not as @Jenny_Aster 's dad might say😁
@BenCotto - that string tin could have joined the pile of paper clips my dad had in his desk. All bent into weird and wonderful shapes and useless as paper clips - but bits of metal to keep 'just in case'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Old mobile phones, you never know.
I find it hard to throw out decent boxes and tins as well. Never know when one of those will come in handy...🙄
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”