to be sooooo cross about plastic cartons?

[PeachesMcLean]

If we have left over food, like a full portion of casserole, I put it in a plastic carton, you know one of those microwaveable ones like you get from the takeaway, and it goes in the freezer. Making life a lot simpler when I don't want to cook a meal from scratch.

DH throws the bloody plastic cartons away cos he thinks they're disposable. I must have said a dozen times "please don't throw the cartons away" In fact maybe more.AAAARRRGGGGHHH!!!

So now we don't have any cartons left And a load of food has gone in the bin again. And he doesn't seem to realise how much easier it makes my life when theres stuff in the freezer. And he doesn't even put them in the effing recycling!!!!

Sooooooooooo crosssssss. Tell me I'm being unreasonable if you dare.

you can geta trillion of them (with lids) for a few pounds. buy loads a of them so he can't chuck them away!

by the way what "book did you thieve?" bookthief

mumofmonsters, I think that was the problem. I bought a pack of 25 and he just thought cos we had so many he could just chuck them out.

I think the underlying problem has been spotted though here - DH is a lazy arse when it comes to recycling. It couldn't be simpler here - the council take all the recycling in one bin. It just has to be clean. DH can't be bothered to wash out tine etc, or to read the list of what can go int the recycling, so most of his stuff goes in the landfill bin.

Lakeland plastics. Definitely take him there - some of them have a cafe too, so if he gets fractious you can buy him a drink to calm him down.

My dh is taking years to get used to the concept of recycling and shockingly throws stuff away just because he doesn't want to get his hands dirty.

Perhaps he's just trying to make the most of his freedom as some councils already make people put stuff in seethrough plastic bin liners so they can inspect whether we're recycling properly.

YANBU.

I'd make him but you lots of take aways to replace the binned cartons.

buy not but!

in a way you are not unreasonable...however...isn't getting take away if you are "green" eco contcions..wrong anyway?

Ah brownie, that's another thread about my ne'r do well dh re: his theft from the library of Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. (theft as in never returning it despite stern letters and fine amnesties rather than sneaking it out under his coat you understand)

I was concerned that the sins of the father would be visited on ds when I wanted to take him to bounce and rhyme at the library but that was proven not to be the case .

Should by dwofabookthief really but it doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.

If you were going to wash the cartons for re-sue then I can't see wy you wouldn't get them out of the bin?

I mean make HIM get them out of the bin!!

i would be livid too. when my dh moved into my mums with me he had a short sharp culture shock coz my dad went mad if things were'nt recycled or re-used! we're the same in our own house now, his sisters are flummoxed when they visit. his mum ahs the 'cant be bothered' attitude and it drives me to distraction!