Further to the bin updates :
We've put out our blue bin out which is full of cardboard and paper. We are also allowed to put in tetra packs.
Our black bin with the pink lid (Salford council have the pink colour scheme on a lot of council stuff) is out too, which is full of leaves and food waste.
My list of what to put in which bin and the calendar of which bin to put out when, is bluetacked to the inside of the cereal cupboard. The calendar is essential because the various bins are emptied, weekly, fortnightly or 3 weekly !
Bin retrieval anxiety is another thing that all good householders should consider.
Some people pay for their wheelie bins to be jetwashed, some don't. * Being tight, I am in the latter catagory.
This action can lead to the exacerbation of the bin-person/operative/hygiene executive's enthusiastic game of bin-scattering. With this in mind, I feel it is essential to reduce stress levels by identifying one's own bins by the affixing of the house number on the bins. I've painted our house number on ours.**
This issue was particularly underscored when Mrs Perplexed accidentally kidnapped the next door neighbours' blue bin for 3 weeks.***
* I clean my own out now and then and save £££s...
** To reassure the readership, two points here. 1) I've done it neatly, without dribbling the paint, and 2) they are painted in plain white.
*** I had already retrieved the blue bin and put in the garage. She didn't realise, and due to the aforementioned bin-scattering game she thought the bin outside our house was ours - it wasn't. If only the neighbours had helped reduce bin-retrieval stress by identifying their bin...