General Chat

RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN A LOT IN THE MEDIIA ABOUT HOARDING,, NOW I ADMIT I'M A HOARDER BUT WHAT ABOUT
THE OTHER SIDE THE CHUCK IT PERSON.

THIS MORNING WE TOOK REAL RUBISH TO THE TIP BUT WHAT
WAS BEING THROWN AWAY WAS AWFULL.
I SAW A GUY DO TWO TRIPS CARRYIING LARGE BOXES WHICH I THOUGHT EMPTY BUT WERE FULL OF

,,,,,,,LEGO
HE JUST TIPPED IT ALL OUT
I SAW KIDS BIKES SCOOTERS DOLLS PRAMS BEAUTIFULL DOLLS
FURNITURE WAS AMAZING AND BEING THROWN IN THE HUGE
SKIPS SMASHING AS IT FELL,
SO WASTED

How awful, you wonder if these people have not heard of recycling things.

Places that serve huge portions, especially of food you can't really doggy bag. Either you shovel down what you don't want or it goes to feed rats and gulls on a landfill.

Big 'share' bags of sweets or crisps, except you don't do you? You shovel in a big bag of what you didn't really want and certainly don't need.

Did you know it is cheaper to buy a whole new electric razor than to replace the heads? The sense in that is......?!

Oh God, I hate waste!

You can imagine how I would have felt seeing that, Gwen, what an awful man not to think of passing on those toys to a charity shop or playgroup or school. I would probably have had to say something to him. Wasn't there anyone at the tip who checks what is thrown, as most places sell on useable stuff these days.

I mean, Lego can be shoved into a pillowcase and tied up and washed in a washing machine to be almost as good as new.

He is obviously not being affected by the cuts everyone else is feeling and the higher cost of living.

Sharron, I too hate waste but any spare bread is out for my hedgehogs and birds and other bits of leftover food too, if it's to their taste. I rarely waste things tho, my waistline shows I am telling the truth lol



Lizx

Thing is,you just don't know the story behind why this 'awful' man was throwing lego away.

Sometimes clearing the house of a hoarder is a very daunting task - even more so if you do not live locally. We should all think about what we are leaving behind for someone else to deal with.

Believe me, I got very very fed up with the cleverdicks who would say "oh you just have to do this, that and the other". 'Just do' is not easy when you have an enormous and emotional task which takes over your life.
I'm not one for waste but who exactly is the wasteful party - the one who creates the problem or the one who has to deal with it?
If you don't know the story behind the action don't judge. Nobody's perfect :-|

SHARRON
THINK I WOULD EMBARACE YOU
I DO ASK FOR DOGGY BAGS OR ASKTHEM TO WRAP IT IN FOIL TO TAKE HOME,ONE EVENING AT A CARVERY THEY STOPPED SERVING THERE WAS LOTS OF BITS OF MEAT ON THE CARVING TRAYS
I ASKED COULD I HAVE THEM FOR THE DOG (I HAVNT GOT)
WE HAD TWO DINNERS OUT OF THE TUB FULL THEY GAVE US,

We have recycling bins at our local tip for children's toys.

Nice pic, by the way, Dizzi. Is it you?

is not usually good stuff like that that hoarders keep. I jettisoned seven old vacuum cleaners, four bags of wool from unpicked jumpers,piles and piles of old magazines bought in from car boots, two rotary ironers,one without a motor.

I have a neighbour who doesn't have a life.She watches the shopping channels and tries to buy one. She gave me an electrical gadget that she couldn't remember what to do with saying it was a slow cooker. I was left to dispose of this slow cooker which turned out to be a rice cooker and who really needs one of those.

There are perfectly good things that you have no option but to dump.There is no facility to do otherwise, nobody will take it, which is probably the case with the dumped furniture.

YEP WEND
AFRAID THATS ME
TAKEN FORTNIGHT AGO

THANK GOD FOR THE CROP & EDIT LOL

And there was me thinking we were about the same age :-D

I doggy bag but we went out for a breakfast yesterday to a cafe I purposely don't use often because of the ridiculous portion sizes.

There was a lot left of mine and that is unusual but you I didn't really want half a fried egg and some hash brown in a doggy bag with cold mushrooms and beans.

Their portion of tomatoes was five halves of large ones with similar sized portions of everything else.

Poor bloke being branded awful when no one knows absolutely nothing about him, or the reason he is clearing out the rubbish ! Maybe he is very busy and just wanted to be rid and didnt have the time to run round donating his wears.

I detest clutter, as soon as a new paper or mags has been read in our house is thrown away in the recyling bin, books I donate to the book club at work, which are normally brought from there and then returned. The thought of loads of rubbish in my home would fill me with dread, all those old papers or mags germs dust mites ewww yuk ......of course my loft space could be an Alladins cave at least every 6 mths I have a good declutter, there is no rubbish tip now where I live everything has bins/skips to be recyled or if I think anything can be sold in a charity shop it goes there or to the local church hall.

Why hang on to a load of unwanted trash so pointless.

Hayley, I so wish I could be like you. I'm afraid hoarding is one of my hobbies :-(

Our local hospice shop is very picky about what it takes. I needed to get rid of old wardrobes because new,more practical ones were coming. The hospice shop would not take them until they had been round,at their convenience, to inspect. I needed them gone so they went to the tip.

Sofas are now so tightly regulated that I don't think you can even give an old one away. My neighbours had to shift a lot of very good furniture, he was high up in Habitat for a long time, and could only give away their gorgeous sofa to somebody who was taking it to France where they have a much healthier atitude to regulations.

Wend I do have a few little tresure like stuff when the children were little and I have been known to hang on to a few items of clothing ( normally stuff I know wont date) but hardly hoading...............if I save or hang on too a load of old stuff there will be no room for the new ;-)

WEND LOL
HOW OLD ARE YOU

HA HA

IM 62

Why start a thread on waste and only respond to posts telling you how lovely you look with your new 'do? :-S :-S save for one

What is wrong with freecycle?

Nothing Chris but a lot depends on circumstance.