Current obssesive thought. To stop recycling for two weeks.

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Recycling gets collected every two weeks. Council allows most things except glass. It all goes in one bin, so no sorting.

Although I put it out, the bin wasn't collected two weeks ago. Stupidly of me I forgot to put it out last night and it's full.

I am one of life's worriers and I will be obesessing about this for the next fews days or week. I constantly go over things that happened years ago. I would so much like these things to stop popping up in my head.

So now I have another thing to berate myself about. Why was I so stupid? Maybe if I disobeyed the rules like most people on the street and left it out permamently, the problem wouldn't have arose.

See this is how my mind works. Has anybody else managed to pull themselves together without expensive counselling?

So back to my choice. Stop recycling and send it to landfill (black bins are collected every week) or hoard it all inside the house until I can get the current full bin emptied.

I know in the grand scheme of things this is minor issue. I want to let go of it but I can't. It's making me quite upset. Maybe it's a symptom of what is happening around us at the moment. The sense of not being in control.

If you have room, keep it in your house until the recycling collection service starts up again.

That's what we're doing - but I said to DH yesterday that if we were living in our old flat, we wouldn't have had the room to do this.

Just tweak things according to your circumstances and don't think about it. It's a non-issue.

Most large supermarkets have recycling skips. Take it along with your next shop.
Or just put it in your general waste. I'm not convinced much of it actually gets recycled at all to be honest.
Really not a big deal.
Set a reminder on your phone for next time.

I do this and I think I am getting better at managing it. I have to really think about what is the WORST thing that will happen as a result of my actions and eventually I will get it in perspective.

Last week, I was obsessing about a cot mattress delivery that i had refused at the door as the cot should have arrived aswell. The mattress then went missing but Hermes logged as 'signed for'. I lost a couple of nights sleep over it. The cot arrived a couple of days later, so the WORST case was that I was down £40 for a new mattress.

Apparently I can cope with global pandemics really well, but the little stuff can eat me up....

Not sure what to do with your rubbish though. Our council will take extra recycling in clear bags from the roadside.