please someone come and make me feel better about the dds' cot getting burnt for firewood

[Cappuccino]

dd2 has got a bed for Christmas so the cot got dismantled

dh has had to mend it twice and it had gone so far that it wouldn't really be safe to pass it onto anyone else - certainly I wouldn't have been happy about another child sleeping in it

we were given it by sil, who used it for her eldest, and our two used it, and it was given to sil second-hand anyway so has been well recycled

but a bloke saw it stacked outside our house ready to go to to the tip to go in the wood skip and asked if he could have it for firewood and dh said yes, fine, saves a trip to the tip

I guess it is being recycled in it's way

but I feel a bit sad about my children's cot going up in flames

I keep thinking about the little coloured balls to play with on the frame that went 'clack'

I know I am a sad sack & this is as much about my babies growing up as about recycling

and it was not safe

please tell me it is okay

oh god a rogue apostrophe

see I am so upset I forget my grammar

i think id feel same.but [happy] it could be keeping another child warm.

it is ok,but i understand how you feel.
heres a hanky.there there dear

It is fine - blimey, it had certainly done it's job. Think I'd rather know it had gone up in smoke than sat all sad in a landfill....sniff....

I dread DD growing out of her cot. She is the sixth in our family to use it and as I'm the last to have children I don't know who to pass it onto, so it may fester in the loft until I'm grey and old.

I know how you feel.

My dc had a cot which was almost 40 years old and had served 6 children in total. By the time ds was born it wasn't very safe either (springs were knackered) so he only slept in it for about a month before I bought a new one.

but it wouldn't have gone in landfill it would have gone in the wood skip

it would have got turned into, erm, a car tyre or an aeroplane or something

I thought the wood in the recycling skip just got chipped - and then used as fuel? You've saved the chipping machinery a job. Well done.

ooh!

maybe that's better then...

it is being cremated

ask if you can collect some ashes and bury them under a tree

or not

ya big sad sack

ha ha yes we could have a ceremony

I'll call the vicar

It's a lovely sendoff. A Viking one.

and it is at a time of year where we need light, and flames, in the darkness to remind us of the continuing cycle of life.

is it being floated out to sea as it burns then?

coo-el

and/or it is shining like a good deed in a naughty world.

oh thank you so much MI and Twig

I am much cheered

maybe we will find the bloke's house and stand outside and sing rousing Viking songs

What lovely thoughts, MI and Twig (though you might freak him out a bit with the Viking songs, Cappuccino - almost worth it just for that)