I'm off up the tip. Anything I can take for you?
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Today I have filled the car with interesting articles cut from magazines and newspapers by my parents from when they married in 1949 until my dad died in 2011. My mum continued to add some until she died in March. There's no system; there aren't even themes. The full colour record of a national event is with tips on pruning. A novelty birthday cake is cheek by jowl with fuel conservation. I have no idea why some were kept at all. Most are in poor shape as mum and dad moved house several times. Sometimes it's the whole magazine but without knowing which article it was saved for, I'm in the dark. At the tip I will have to post them a few at a time through a narrow slot. I may be some time.
It has taken 2 years to clear my mum and dads home, managed to get the oddities down to two plastic crates.
I particularly love that dad had kept every payslip all neatly filed in brown envelopes by tax year, I never knew he did this, but I use the same method.
Found a menu from a cruise my mum went on in 1956 then the postcards to her parents from all the different ports she stopped in, then the pictures, then her old uni friends sent me all the letters mum had written to her, which included details of the cruise, in all the time I spent with mum she never mentioned a cruise.
I particularly love that dad had kept every payslip all neatly filed in brown envelopes by tax year, I never knew he did this, but I use the same method.
Found a menu from a cruise my mum went on in 1956 then the postcards to her parents from all the different ports she stopped in, then the pictures, then her old uni friends sent me all the letters mum had written to her, which included details of the cruise, in all the time I spent with mum she never mentioned a cruise.
I don't work Tuesdays so use that day as a chore day, our local tip is no longer open Tuesday; I found out when I'd broken up a bed and loaded the car up with it, I arrived and it was shut!!
There is Sunday, however I work every 2nd Sunday and generally have very little spare time so I like to spend Sunday with the wife and dogs, as opposed to queuing for miles with everyone else to get into the local tip.
I'm going to have to get one of the brown garden bins that the council offer, however I begrudge spending £38 pa for one, given I spend enough on council tax already.
So can you swing by and pick up my grass clippings?!
There is Sunday, however I work every 2nd Sunday and generally have very little spare time so I like to spend Sunday with the wife and dogs, as opposed to queuing for miles with everyone else to get into the local tip.
I'm going to have to get one of the brown garden bins that the council offer, however I begrudge spending £38 pa for one, given I spend enough on council tax already.
So can you swing by and pick up my grass clippings?!
HTP99 said:
I don't work Tuesdays so use that day as a chore day, our local tip is no longer open Tuesday; I found out when I'd broken up a bed and loaded the car up with it, I arrived and it was shut!!
There is Sunday, however I work every 2nd Sunday and generally have very little spare time so I like to spend Sunday with the wife and dogs, as opposed to queuing for miles with everyone else to get into the local tip.
I'm going to have to get one of the brown garden bins that the council offer, however I begrudge spending £38 pa for one, given I spend enough on council tax already.
So can you swing by and pick up my grass clippings?!
Compost heap. HTH. There is Sunday, however I work every 2nd Sunday and generally have very little spare time so I like to spend Sunday with the wife and dogs, as opposed to queuing for miles with everyone else to get into the local tip.
I'm going to have to get one of the brown garden bins that the council offer, however I begrudge spending £38 pa for one, given I spend enough on council tax already.
So can you swing by and pick up my grass clippings?!
Tumbler said:
It has taken 2 years to clear my mum and dads home...
My Mum is a hoarder at the best of times. Her Dad died 15 years ago. Her Mum 4 and when they cleared their place to sell it. She STILL hasn't gotten rid of a significant amount of it. Shes too sentimental about stuff that's s
te. OR she thinks things are worth "something to someone" but wont let me help her sell it on eBay. Occasionally the charity shop gets items they will end up chucking themselves! 
In X years time, I'm going to have to book 2 weeks off work, rent a transit and get a couple of skips to clear their house for selling! (probably on my own since my brother will not want to do it!)
NDA said:
GetCarter said:
I investigated how much a standard sized skip would cost.
£899.00.
One of the few disadvantages of living in the middle of nowhere.
Yebbut, you can burn stuff.£899.00.
One of the few disadvantages of living in the middle of nowhere.
I am not in quite the remote spot you are, but am able to have some epic fires.
Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 4th May 13:00
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