General Chat

Put an ad on yesterday to give away my family history magazines that had piled up. they have just been collected.

:) Well done for recycling.

I sometimes think our house is part of a recycling centre SRS. We have an excellent recycling scheme here where almost everything is recycled by the council, all goes in one large wheelie bin. Cardboard, shredding, bottles, plastic bottles, tetrapacks, yoghurt/butter etc cartons, meat trays, cans, greeting cards A4 paper. Food in a separate bin, garden waste in another and landfill in another. The latter usually only has about 4 small carrier bags a fortnight and that is mostly paper bread wrappers etc. Then we also compost ourselves so it pleased me very much to find a home for 50+ magazines and the discs that went with them. I suddenly realised that I read them and put them on the shelf and never ever referred back to them. Anyway he was a happy bunny.

Well done Ann.

I took two carrier bags full of magazines to my local history group meeting, expecting them to be leapt upon. I was surprised that no-one seemed interested and it ended up with the last person there saying she would take them 'she supposed'. I wish I had put them on Freecycle in the first place. I shall do with with the next lot - the study really needs a sort out!!

Elisabeth xx

You have reminded me to put my computer magazines back on freecycle. Theere were several messages and new postings on when I put them on before and I think they may have been missed. And our car boot liner didnt go either. It cost about £90 so someone was going to get a bargain.

Ann, please dont turn yourself into compost, you would be missed on the boards.

I have hundreds of family history mags which I have bought over the years, but nobody seems to want them. Our gen group subscribes to them. Somebody suggested putting them in doctors waiting rooms. I must try that some time, they would make a change from the womens mags, fishing mags etc.