Things you do without really asking yourself why?
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Has it ever occurred to you that there are things you might do in your life, but when it comes down to it, you can't really say why you do them? You've just always done them, or your mum always did?
When we bought our first house many years ago, one of the first things I did was to call one of the three window cleaners who'd stuck their card through the letterbox once they saw the "Sold" sign go up and booked a regular visit. When we moved to our next home, I did the same. A few years later, we had a loft conversion and a single storey extension.
About 4 years after that I was looking out of one of the bedroom windows - in the loft and above the sloped roof of the extension - and suddenly thought "this hasn't been cleaned in all the years since it was fitted since the window cleaner can't get to it and it's absolutely fine, so what the hell am I paying a window cleaner for???
I reckon we've now saved over a grand in the years since I cancelled the window cleaner, who I'd only originally booked because I just figured that was what you did!
Anyone else had this sort of sudden enlightenment moment of realising you're doing something on a regular basis and you've got no real idea whether it's justified?
When we bought our first house many years ago, one of the first things I did was to call one of the three window cleaners who'd stuck their card through the letterbox once they saw the "Sold" sign go up and booked a regular visit. When we moved to our next home, I did the same. A few years later, we had a loft conversion and a single storey extension.
About 4 years after that I was looking out of one of the bedroom windows - in the loft and above the sloped roof of the extension - and suddenly thought "this hasn't been cleaned in all the years since it was fitted since the window cleaner can't get to it and it's absolutely fine, so what the hell am I paying a window cleaner for???
I reckon we've now saved over a grand in the years since I cancelled the window cleaner, who I'd only originally booked because I just figured that was what you did!
Anyone else had this sort of sudden enlightenment moment of realising you're doing something on a regular basis and you've got no real idea whether it's justified?
StevieBee said:
Resident bin nerd at your service (25 years behaviour change communications telling people what goes in what bin and why 
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If you have a household recycling service, and you recycle correctly, the only bins that may need a wash out from time to time is your Food Waste bin and/or your Garden Waste bin.
There should be nothing putrescible in any of the others only clean, dry recyclable materials.
Unless you don't have a separate food waste collection in which case, your normal rubbish bin can get a bit mucky.
If you are able to mix paper and card with everything else, then your local authority will have asked you to wash out cans and bottles before placing in the bin. This is because food residue contaminates the paper and card rendering it unrecyclable. When that happens......
We have a food bin, a recycling bin, a general waste bin and a box, the purpose of which I'm not 100% clear on. I know it takes glass, but not sure if it's also for cans. )If you have a household recycling service, and you recycle correctly, the only bins that may need a wash out from time to time is your Food Waste bin and/or your Garden Waste bin.
There should be nothing putrescible in any of the others only clean, dry recyclable materials.
Unless you don't have a separate food waste collection in which case, your normal rubbish bin can get a bit mucky.
If you are able to mix paper and card with everything else, then your local authority will have asked you to wash out cans and bottles before placing in the bin. This is because food residue contaminates the paper and card rendering it unrecyclable. When that happens......
Kermit power said:
Sending recyclable waste to landfill is the councils' job, isn't it?
....except that it is no longer recyclable. And these days, tends to go to energy from waste facilities. Very little waste gets landfilled. Surely everyone has that general waste bin, don't they? We have plenty of stuff that is neither food nor recyclable?
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