[Fluffywelshsheep]

How is everyone doing on this ?

Am still doing it a couple of item everywhere

Does anyone know of a place you can sell you video cassettes online ?
Like music magpie but only for videos, If their isn't any i'll give them to a charity but just wondering if i could get a couple of ££ for them beforehand

Linz

[sellickbhoy]

well, this month i've been getting selling off my old CD collection - had about 400 that had to go. Can't recall the last time i listened to an actual CD, it's all ipod these days!

when i emptied out the old stables i cleared out a lot of old furniture via freecycle

I've got about 100 cassettes that i'll just have to freecycle or drop into one of th echarity shops - but my van has a tape player, so i'll keep some for when i'm driving about in the van

Oh and i have plenty of pallets to give away too!!!

I've not decided what to do with my books, i'm gonna keep them!

the charity shop has also had a few black bags worht of clothes. So i've done pretty well in the last month.

not technically downsizing, but i've replaced 50% of the halogen bulbs with LED bulbs - don't notice the difference too much - but i'd be in darkness if i did them all!! and the dimmer lights have been replaced, they were 500W halogen bulbs, now 150W bulbs - though I've jsut recycled one of my old lamps from the stables and put a low energy bulb in it so i rarely use the dimmers now!! getting there

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Well i got rid of some cd via music magpie (got £12 for them not bad i think)

Got a couple left for charity shops
Got a pile of clothes to go to the cloths bin next time i go to tesco (btw the one in alloa give you points for recycling items in their new machine in car park)
Got rid of some furniture from a house clearance on freecycle
Got ride of an old bed frame and also got rid of some craftting bit to a kids club in Dunfermline (i think) via freecycle
Oh also sent two old phones of to tesco's recycling scheme

[doganjo]

I'm just going to keep all my clutter - I like it

[northfifeduckling]

local school's coffee morning coming up - toys, books, videos are going to go there. Would be nice to generate some cash from gameboy games on ebay if they ever did do their room...Went through a huge chest today looking for net curtains for my cabbages - didn't find any but lots of other material. Not decided yet what to do with it or if it goes.

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Did a house clearing today unfortunally alot of it had to go to the tip as totally not suitable to be freecycle, a few dated pieces and no one would have wanted them. But did get a couple of bit for the garden and a big laudrette wash bag full of clearing products (bloody heavy) so i have got them in the cupboard so i'll work my way though they save them from landfill, Also managed to get a new wheelbarrow well new to me as the other wheel barrow has holes in the barrow bit

[cmorrell]

If I pass on a book, does that count as a couple of hundred items or would I need to pass on each page individually? I have so much clutter, or rather, too little space .. just can't bring myself to get rid of much!

[northfifeduckling]

2 new yahoo groups for Scotland might be interesting for downshifters or bartering enthusiasts:


http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/swapcyclefife_scotland


http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/Freeconomy -Scotland

[Fluffywelshsheep]

thank i'll take a look at them
Linz

[Fluffywelshsheep]

My little bit for today is I have g0t 3 big bags of clothes for the clothes bin at the tip/tesco. Plenty of things put in the blue bin/box for recycling. Got a bit pile of cardboard waitting to go to the tip.

[northfifeduckling]

all my cardboard gets used now, 1st it goes under the ducki9es' straw and then in the garden as weed suppressant. After that on the compost heap!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

I have no room in my compost bin (my hubby has covered up the other two with mono block paving).

So i'll just have to put it in the cardboard bin for now

[northfifeduckling]

here in fife we can put paper and cardboard in the same blue bin - is that different where you are?

[Fluffywelshsheep]

yeah al recyclable items go in the big blue bin or box but i have managed to fill that up, I do quite quickly as i like to recycle everything as much as possible.

But i have come up with an idea because tesco machine will take some of the stuff also so once i have filled my blue bin up and then the next time i go in the direction of tesco i put it in the machine their

Linz

[northfifeduckling]

I remember now driving through your county - you have these tiny boxes! We get a giant blue bin, emptied every 4 weeks. We never fill it with the fireplace and garden, although my man's a big newsreader (I'm reading books, no problem with recycling there lol).