Hoarding and reusing

[Polly Fouracre]

Me too,all the usual things--lav roll innards,plastic bottles,tubs of all shapes and sizes,feed sacks,wine and beer bottles. All come in handy eventually.

[Lady Jana Muck]

I think recycling and saving money go hand in hand with gardeners its in the genes. The late great Geoff Hamilton was one of the first on this bandwagen. He is so sadly missed.
One of the best.

[Tracey]

Oh that reminds me I too hoard magazines. The mags that have the type that 'I think I will read again' like New Scientist, The Ecologist, RSH Garden magazines. I've got a hugh pile, but I've never read any of them more than once.

[Two_Sheds]

This is what I am hoarding at the moment:

• buttons, cut from old clothes (for putting on new clothes)
• loo rolls, for starting root veg
• 2l milk bottles, for posting plants in
• ditto 1l Coke bottles
• mushroom tubs, for standing loo rolls in
• newspapers, to shred for pet bedding
• old boxes, for pet bedding
• old stamps, to save the albatross
• unfranked stamps, to use again
• selvedges from fabric, to use as bias binding
• fabric scraps, to make into cushions
• jiffy bags, to reuse in the post
• plastic hummous tubs, to freeze dinners in
• ditto Chinese takeaway containers
• white icecream tubs to make into plant labels
• 4l milk bottles to use as cloches
• old growbags to reuse as leafmould containers or hanging basket liners
• an old road atlas to turn into wrapping paper

and finally ...
old breadcrumbs to freeze, until I make a nutloaf

Do you think I need professional help?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Do you think I need professional help?

Nope - because you know WHY you are hoarding....I come into the 'well, surely this will come in useful for SOMETHING' category of hoarder.....

[SueA]

I'm a hoarder of eveything & always think it will come in useful for something. O.H. is the opposite & is always trying to throw things out when I'm not looking. He's throws things in the bin & then I go out & 'rescue' them to either re-use myself or put in charity bags!

[Seahorse]

Terrible hoarder here! In fact I sometimes wonder whether when my children are grown and gone, I might not be one of those sad souls that the fire brigade has to tunnel in to find after the neighbours notice a funny smell

[Madasafish]

I used last month some foam stored since 1977.
I used some steel sheet stored since 1982.
Some aluminium from 1983.
And we used last year a light fitting stored from 1987.

But I'm not a hoarder..