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So much stuff, so little time...
7:00pm Wednesday 7th January 2009
Comments (15)You might think Christmas and New Year are over, but not in my house. Not yet anyway.
We’re still waiting for the binmen to come round and take away the debris.
Our normal collection day is Thursday and as Christmas Day and New Year’s Day were Thursdays, we’ve got three weeks worth of rubbish sitting on the drive waiting to be collected.
There are more than 15 sacks full of rubbish and several big cardboard boxes too waiting to go.
To add to that as I was putting the Christmas tree and decorations back up in the loft I spotted some more junk that had to go, including what must have been the canopy from an old baby’s pram and some empty boxes that once had toys in them.
I think we’d kept them “in case we wanted to put them on eBay”.
Oh how many times has that phrase been uttered in our house? The things we’ve put up the loft “for eBay”.
The trouble is I can never be bothered to actually sit down in front of the computer and put the stuff up for sale.
It seems wrong to spend an hour photographing some bit of old tat and writing a florid description of it to try and sell it for a couple of quid.
The postage alone makes selling anything larger than a postcard prohibitively expensive.
I’ve got old football programmes, 11 china bells with flowers on them (one for every month of the year minus the one we lost/broke/never had), tons of baby clothes my wife is “going to sort out”, and boxes and boxes of records.
Remember records? Those big vinyl round flat things we used to put on a turntable and play?
I love records, especially LPs. Their size is so suited to artwork on the cover, and the crackle-hiss of static as the needle picks up all the bits of fluff off the grooves.
There used to be a secondhand record shop in Wolverhampton where I used to spend hours chatting with the manager, about which was the best Springsteen bootleg live album. (Sugarlands he reckoned. I didn’t know, but I guessed it wasn’t the Live at Roundhay Park, Leeds, that I bought from a record fair in the City Hall on Sunday).
Now those old memories are up the loft. I could have them down, but in all honesty I don’t have the time or the energy to listen to most of them.
Trouble is I love my iPod too. But I would like to recoup some of the investment I made in vinyl.
I looked into ebaying them (one of those new verbs that kids today should be urged to avoid, like “to task”, as in: I have been tasked with writing this column today by my editor), but they aren’t worth the postage.
The editor said to me one day this week that my glass really must seem half empty all the time.
This was in response to me telling him that if a ticket to Glastonbury was £175 a head and you had to go for all five days I thought I’d want to see Led Zep, Springsteen and Madonna headlining and sleep in a decent camper van.
Plus I needed a telly and some curtains so I could spend the day avoiding looking at the wierdos wandering round the site.
We decided that I’d be better off watching it on TV.
So I’m counting that as I haven’t spent £350 on two tickets to Glastonbury I don’t have to recoup £350 from ebay.
Job well done.
Your Say YourBournemouth Echo
hemlock, Wimborne, Dorset says...
2:03pm Thu 8 Jan 09
amused, poole says...
3:26pm Thu 8 Jan 09
john the voice, bournemouth says...
5:53pm Thu 8 Jan 09
amused wrote:but that is the problem people are too lazy to go to their local tip/recycling center ,take the bags you have, empty them and reuse,oh so simple.
we missed a recycle collection so we have lots of xmas and we hardboard, paper and glass and we have used both the spare bags, we could have done with more bags for the recycling. There is no need to have all that rubbish out for collection in the above photo
peterdw777, says...
6:26pm Thu 8 Jan 09
john the voice wrote:Or perhaps they haven't got their own transport to take it in. Before you suggest hiring a van for a day, remember that the local recycling centres don't allow vans on their premises!
amused wrote:but that is the problem people are too lazy to go to their local tip/recycling center ,take the bags you have, empty them and reuse,oh so simple.
we missed a recycle collection so we have lots of xmas and we hardboard, paper and glass and we have used both the spare bags, we could have done with more bags for the recycling. There is no need to have all that rubbish out for collection in the above photo
john the voice, bournemouth says...
9:05pm Thu 8 Jan 09
peterdw777 wrote:no problem getting it to there houses,car or no car,my point is if people sort there waste properly they would not have overflowing bins,flatten tins containers and cardboard thus reducing ammount of bags needed.in most cases it is just lazyness, and the someone else will clear up the mess attitude,
john the voice wrote:Or perhaps they haven't got their own transport to take it in. Before you suggest hiring a van for a day, remember that the local recycling centres don't allow vans on their premises!amused wrote: we missed a recycle collection so we have lots of xmas and we hardboard, paper and glass and we have used both the spare bags, we could have done with more bags for the recycling. There is no need to have all that rubbish out for collection in the above photobut that is the problem people are too lazy to go to their local tip/recycling center ,take the bags you have, empty them and reuse,oh so simple.
amused, poole says...
9:25pm Thu 8 Jan 09
john the voice wrote:I take exception to be told how to recycle. Please tell me where my local centre is then as most of the ones we used to use are gone. Also before you criticise my recycling habits can I inform you that as a houshold we have been recycling for about 20 years long before it was trendy and the coucil provided bins and I do flatten all my boxes cans and plastic containers, my only complaint is that as i have gone to the trouble to recycle i needed extra bags especially as we have 4 grandchildren who came for christmas and we had the packaging and paper to get rid of.
peterdw777 wrote:no problem getting it to there houses,car or no car,my point is if people sort there waste properly they would not have overflowing bins,flatten tins containers and cardboard thus reducing ammount of bags needed.in most cases it is just lazyness, and the someone else will clear up the mess attitude,john the voice wrote:Or perhaps they haven't got their own transport to take it in. Before you suggest hiring a van for a day, remember that the local recycling centres don't allow vans on their premises!amused wrote: we missed a recycle collection so we have lots of xmas and we hardboard, paper and glass and we have used both the spare bags, we could have done with more bags for the recycling. There is no need to have all that rubbish out for collection in the above photobut that is the problem people are too lazy to go to their local tip/recycling center ,take the bags you have, empty them and reuse,oh so simple.
john_the_idiot, christchurch says...
11:56pm Thu 8 Jan 09
Self righteous idiot with a biggotted opinion of how others should live to his values rather than their own
john the voice, bournemouth says...
9:19am Fri 9 Jan 09
john_the_idiot wrote:i just wish everybody had the same high standards as me,you are quite correct brother john your low standards forced me to move.
Its ok, my brother John is just being an idiot as normal, although he has move from Christchurch now, he must be ashamed of his choice of home. Self righteous idiot with a biggotted opinion of how others should live to his values rather than their own
WIGGINSv, Boscombe says...
5:25pm Fri 9 Jan 09
Emulated, Bournemouth says...
7:26pm Fri 9 Jan 09
Both bins full. 2 weeks of household and 3 weeks of recycling with bags provided.
amused, poole says...
8:14pm Fri 9 Jan 09
Emulated wrote:You got yours emptied because they were back to work by then, we were just unfortunate that it happened that our collection is a tuesday and so we have to wait another 2 weeks. If any dustman are reading this Im the lady that left you a tip in a white envelope so if I leave an extra bag be nice.
Should move to Bournemouth. Collections on New Years Day. Both bins full. 2 weeks of household and 3 weeks of recycling with bags provided.
Emulated, Bournemouth says...
9:35pm Fri 9 Jan 09
amused wrote:Sounds like a posh version of the brown envelope tatics politicians use.
Emulated wrote: Should move to Bournemouth. Collections on New Years Day. Both bins full. 2 weeks of household and 3 weeks of recycling with bags provided.You got yours emptied because they were back to work by then, we were just unfortunate that it happened that our collection is a tuesday and so we have to wait another 2 weeks. If any dustman are reading this Im the lady that left you a tip in a white envelope so if I leave an extra bag be nice.
amused, poole says...
7:57am Sat 10 Jan 09
Emulated wrote:Have always tipped the dustman, its a hard job, I also give anybody who does any work for us a coffee and biscuits, us working classes have to stick together.
amused wrote:Sounds like a posh version of the brown envelope tatics politicians use.Emulated wrote: Should move to Bournemouth. Collections on New Years Day. Both bins full. 2 weeks of household and 3 weeks of recycling with bags provided.You got yours emptied because they were back to work by then, we were just unfortunate that it happened that our collection is a tuesday and so we have to wait another 2 weeks. If any dustman are reading this Im the lady that left you a tip in a white envelope so if I leave an extra bag be nice.
AbCat, Poole says...
4:54pm Sat 10 Jan 09
If that picture was really taken this past week, after one of the hardest winters for twenty years, then my name's Bruce Springsteen.
BIN THERE: I've got three weeks' worth of rubbish waiting to be collected...
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