A car full of dog food cans, packaging and glass bottles.
Number 2 son visited down here in his new to him 7 seater car and suggested I might want to take the recycling I stored in the back of J's Berlingo. It had given up the ghost a week or two before her passing.
Like most household routines like paying bills and housework and cooking and cleaning and washing . J took on a multi task of roles. It's been an awful difficult few weeks trying to know where anything is or where to pay the electricity.? I spent four hours looking for birth and marriage certificates. I wish someone would write a booklet for grieving widowers on how to manage house affairs. Do you know where your marriage certificate is Mr?
I was mainly in charge of the outside of the smallholding, gardening, mucking out the ponies and pigs, chopping wood and carrying anything heavy. Oh and burying dead rats, removing spiders and catching a bat that had flown down the chimney. " Just get it outside" J once screamed at me😊.
I couldn't believe how many bags of recycling I had crammed into the little van in the last month.
We took it to the waste recycling centre in Bantry and paid 3 Euros. I wonder how much we pay individually for our packing and dog food cans and glass bottles?
We came home and filled up the car with the " Return" beer cans and plastic bottles and took them to Lidl and it was closed. They had no electricity. So we drove to Super Valu and started to put each individual can and plastic bottle in the return deposit machine. We took the paper receipt to the check out and got back 22.50 Euros in cash.
It's a pity they don't have a return machine for pet food and tinned food and glass bottles. Are the supermarkets only interested in metal and plastic that makes money like Aluminium beer cans?
My goodness, it soon piles up doesn't it? Good old number two son for sorting all that out for you.
ReplyDeleteWhen I became ill this time last year and it was thought that I had stomach cancer, P asked me to write a list of everything that he would have to sort out in the event of my demise. Thankfully, he hasn't yet needed it. It's something that perhaps we all should think about, whatever our age.
I hope everything is starting to get back into some sort of order for you now, although life will never be the same again, I know. xx
You have to pay for private waste disposal where we live JayCee. It's charged by the weight and you have to walk a quarter of a mile for it to be collected and then you have to walk back later to bring back the empty bin. We take our beer cans and plastic bottles to the return deposit bins in the supermarkets and our recycling goes to the waste recycling centre. You go on a weigh bridge for domestic rubbish.
ReplyDeleteYour list sounds wonderful JayCee. Any chance of you writing a blog post about what to do?
Griief is horrible especially when your partner passes. Thanks.
I was fortunate that we'd got papers together a while ago..him getting divorced and us getting married had meant that was kept up to date! But the blessing here was the Tell it All website...where you put details in once and everything gets notified..
ReplyDeleteGood work with son#2... Recycling can stack up...and a nice reward for having done it too
I think women are much more organised with papers than men are GZ. I do think couples should talk to each other about such things and how they will cope and find things when one of them dies. Thanks for the information.
ReplyDeleteWe are going to keep to a fortnightly visit to the recycling centre. Thanks