Inconvenient Annoyances

Well I don't anymore. I went through when we moved house and through those suckers out! He had some with a best before date of before we had even met!

I've gotten a lot less freaked out by stuff since moving here, but I admit that I do have a super sneaky clear-out every once in a while.  My husband would keep everything.  I'm less afraid of sell-by and best before dates now, but year-old things?  Nope.

I also admit to waiting until my wife is out of town to throw away all the old food in the fridge.  She just can't bear to throw away food, even if nobody wants to eat it. 

I also admit to waiting until my wife is out of town to throw away all the old food in the fridge.  She just can't bear to throw away food, even if nobody wants to eat it.

We have a little routine.  On Monday mornings my husband puts the trash out for collection and leaves for work.  Before I leave for work, I clear out the fridge and cupboards of science experiments gone wrong, and stuff the them in top of the bag.

Also, our council gives us 80 bin bags a year.  My husband is like the bin bag nazi.  He gets REALLY annoyed if we have more than one bag in a week.  We have HUNDREDS of bags as we’ve used so few over the years.  Don’t get me wrong, I am very pleased that we are not throwing things unnecessarily into landfills.  But he goes very extreme!

Mrrr. One of my neighbors keeps parking me in. I don't drive often so it's not a huge issue, but I couldn't get out on Saturday, and since I finally have a job interview Wednesday I have to be able to get to that. I left them a nice note and said please don't block me Wednesday morning, hoping it doesn't backfire. If they are, can I call to have them towed? It's a car park for residents and their guests. It seems like some of them must have an agreement because this happens a lot, there were multiple people blocked in.

Mrrr. One of my neighbors keeps parking me in. I don't drive often so it's not a huge issue, but I couldn't get out on Saturday, and since I finally have a job interview Wednesday I have to be able to get to that. I left them a nice note and said please don't block me Wednesday morning, hoping it doesn't backfire. If they are, can I call to have them towed? It's a car park for residents and their guests. It seems like some of them must have an agreement because this happens a lot, there were multiple people blocked in.

Nightmare!  I would have left the note but I would not have limited it to Wednesday morning. That is basically inviting them to park in front of you whenever else they like.
Check with the management to see what your options are.

I also admit to waiting until my wife is out of town to throw away all the old food in the fridge.  She just can't bear to throw away food, even if nobody wants to eat it.

Yep 100% this. I wait until my husband is doing something else and I bin as much as I can and hope he doesn't notice.

We have a little routine.  On Monday mornings my husband puts the trash out for collection and leaves for work.  Before I leave for work, I clear out the fridge and cupboards of science experiments gone wrong, and stuff the them in top of the bag.

Also, our council gives us 80 bin bags a year.  My husband is like the bin bag nazi.  He gets REALLY annoyed if we have more than one bag in a week.  We have HUNDREDS of bags as we’ve used so few over the years.  Don’t get me wrong, I am very pleased that we are not throwing things unnecessarily into landfills.  But he goes very extreme!

I am SO thankful I'm in Bracknell Forest council territory! My MIL was in the half of Crowthorne that was Wokingham Borough and those bags just seem like a pain!

I am SO thankful I'm in Bracknell Forest council territory! My MIL was in the half of Crowthorne that was Wokingham Borough and those bags just seem like a pain!

Part of our city gets these purple council bin bags and the other half doesn't. (Stirling, Scotland) I'm not sure how they decide what part of the city gets them as we don't have them but the next street over does.

But the council has a trash inspector and he looks through the bags on the street and if he finds something in there that shouldn't be, he puts it in a bright yellow bag and you get a fine. WTF is that about?

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the council has a trash inspector and he looks through the bags on the street and if he finds something in there that shouldn't be, he puts it in a bright yellow bag and you get a fine. WTF is that about?

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My husband would be PERFECT for that job.   

Also, our council gives us 80 bin bags a year.  My husband is like the bin bag nazi.  He gets REALLY annoyed if we have more than one bag in a week.  We have HUNDREDS of bags as we’ve used so few over the years.  Don’t get me wrong, I am very pleased that we are not throwing things unnecessarily into landfills.  But he goes very extreme!

My council have single-stream recycling (all recyclables mixed together in the same bag(s)), collected fortnightly, they give free bags for the recycling collection, and there is no limit to the number of bags of recycling we can put out each fortnight.  I usually put out 1 to 3 bags (Amazon shopping really fills up those bags!).

We also have a food waste bin that is for all compostables, collected every week.

And, finally, we have rubbish collection in the alternate weeks to the recycling collection.  We are limited to four rubbish bags per fortnight (so, two bags a week).  If I ever have to put out more than 1 rubbish bag in the fortnight, I feel like we have failed.  BUT we don't have kids.  It's just the two of us.  And with the unlimited recycling and the food waste, it's easy to make 1 rubbish bag stretch to two weeks.

My council have single-stream recycling (all recyclables mixed together in the same bag(s)), collected fortnightly, they give free bags for the recycling collection, and there is no limit to the number of bags of recycling we can put out each fortnight.  I usually put out 1 to 3 bags (Amazon shopping really fills up those bags!).

We also have a food waste bin that is for all compostables, collected every week.

And, finally, we have rubbish collection in the alternate weeks to the recycling collection.  We are limited to four rubbish bags per fortnight (so, two bags a week).  If I ever have to put out more than 1 rubbish bag in the fortnight, I feel like we have failed.  BUT we don't have kids.  It's just the two of us.  And with the unlimited recycling and the food waste, it's easy to make 1 rubbish bag stretch to two weeks.

They’ve increased what we can recycle now which is good.

Our New Years Resolution for 2018 was to reduce food waste and we’ve done a really really good job of sticking to it.  We are proud.

Nightmare!  I would have left the note but I would not have limited it to Wednesday morning. That is basically inviting them to park in front of you whenever else they like.
Check with the management to see what your options are.

Welp, chatted with the woman who was blocking me. She assumed I didn't live there because they (the houses immediately in front of the lot) hadn't seen me. She was blocking me the times I'd tried going anywhere so yeah.... After she realised I did live there and wasn't trying to start any trouble her tone changed significantly and she apologised. Apparently I should have gone and introduced myself to the neighbours down the other row of houses when I bought a car

Welp, chatted with the woman who was blocking me. She assumed I didn't live there because they (the houses immediately in front of the lot) hadn't seen me. She was blocking me the times I'd tried going anywhere so yeah.... After she realised I did live there and wasn't trying to start any trouble her tone changed significantly and she apologised. Apparently I should have gone and introduced myself to the neighbours down the other row of houses when I bought a car

Oh, that is great news! Glad you have it sorted now! 

Apparently I should have gone and introduced myself to the neighbours down the other row of houses when I bought a car

LOLOL I guarantee if you did that they would be like "oh, what a crazy american! Thinking they need to go and physically speak to everybody in the complex! HA! AMERICANS!". I think it was a lose-lose and nothing you could have done would have been the right thing lol

Glad it's all sorted now though

I'm the rubbish inspector in my house. I'm constantly having to take out things that should be recycled 

I try really hard to have limited food waste, but it happens.  I feel so much less guilty now that I can feed green things to the guinea pigs, leftovers and whatnot to the chickens, other bits and bobs that can't be fed to the chickens like avocado rinds, eggshells, and coffee grounds the worms in the womery, or as last resort into one of our four compost bins.