[New shoot]

Having saved several meat and veg plastic trays for standing pots in and egg boxes for chitting spuds in over the last couple of weeks, I think its officially hoarding season 

As well as seed buying syndrome I'm afraid I also catch 'that will be handy' fever this time of year 

Anyone else come down with this?

[Springlands]

Oh yes - and then OH wants to know why I am "hoarding all that rubbish" 

[Swing Swang]

Not a hoarder New Shoot all must be "Useful or beautiful". SS

[Springlands]

Not a hoarder New Shoot all must be "Useful or beautiful". SS

But SS, my bits and pieces are useful, old plastic bottles for cloches, plastic containers for drip trays. Must admit they are not particularly beautiful though. 

[Hesse2509]

Do any of us ever stop? 

[glasgowgal]

Yep, me too. :blink:

And since I have a new allotment I am not sure what 'might come in handy' so I am keeping all sorts - plastic trays, toilet roll tubes, plastic bottles for mini cloches.  Everything has to be assessed for
(a) useful at allotment
(b) useful for junk modelling at out-of school club
(c) compostable
(d) recyclable in council bins
(e) actually rubbish!

The previous plot holder seemed to have hoarded enough slabs and bricks to completely patio and monoblock the whole plot!
 OH says we need to keep them because they 'might come in handy' ! Eh? so might some earth to grow stuff on.

GG

[plum crumble]

oh dear, another guilty pleasure revealed on the AVG!!!  I let slip at work last summer that I needed empty jars for pickles, chutneys etc ( LET SLIP = doing a group email to all 760 people at the Slough site  ). I come into work most weeks to find a carrier bag on my desk with some jars - and people always wash them first, how kind!) Trouble is- how do I stop them? I have bags of jars at home in the greenhouse, in the garage, at work under my desk...... I could just do another email to say I have enough, but, but,but ...they might just come in handy, might they?

[sunshineband]

Hoarding -- so that is what collecting useful items is called, is it?

So far I am collecting:

toilet roll tubes
Lloyd Grosman sauce jars ('cos they fit nicely in the pan for bottling)
egg boxes
plastic trays

and that is all 

[plum crumble]

are you sure sunshineband? Are you really really sure?

[sunshineband]

are you sure sunshineband? Are you really really sure?

Weeeeellllll.

YES!
 Unless you count bricks  -- you can't really include them can you? 

[tallulah]

Oh Yes!  And the dog got to the big bag with all the bits and pieces in yesterday and had them strewn all over the kitchen!

Loo roll and kitchen roll insides, plastic trays of course, and new for this year, the thick plastic bags that the dog food comes in, for some patio potato trials!

[Trillium]

We don't drink much soda here but I have several 2L bottles saved for cloches, along with spare 4L cider jugs. Several large rectangular salad tubs are at the ready for onion seeds, then later will be flipped (empty) in the garden as cloches with rocks on top to keep them in place.

I've given up trying to save the small bits of netting from veg bags and will probably buy a proper roll of netting against those pesky cabbage whites.

I've also got a big old metal washtub in the garage filling with woodburner ash for spring.

[mumofstig]

I had a sort out in the shed in the autumn and threw away 2 bin bags of various placcy boxes, pop bottles and white placcy milk bottles
It was just stupid......thanks to Freecycle I have enough proper seed trays, propamigater thingamy lids and small pots, plus I bought some strong modules on flea-bay. Sorted! no more collecting for me.

However - I do collect the large placcy 'mushroom boxes', thrown away by the chinese takeaway They make nice strong trays for the little pots 

[seedman]

Hoarding -- so that is what collecting useful items is called, is it?

So far I am collecting:

toilet roll tubes
Lloyd Grosman sauce jars ('cos they fit nicely in the pan for bottling)
egg boxes
plastic trays

and that is all 

My Jars are supermarket own brand washed the labels off so no one knows cant afford Lloyd Grosman .

[mumofstig]

The cheapo jars are taller and don't fit in the bottling pan but are ok for jams and pickles that don't need heat treatment.
At least if I buy Grosman sauces I can eat the contents .................We only buy them if the tom crop was bad and couldn't make enough pasta sauce of our own. There is a method in our madness, seedman