Use for junk mail

[Digeroo]

I had tied all my celery up with advertisements.   

[Digeroo]

[goodlife]

 

..all envelopes make good seed packets and rest of our junk mail gets burned in stove..it the glossy papered junk mail that I'm not too keen with, it doesn't burn properly.

[Vinlander]

..it the glossy papered junk mail that I'm not too keen with, it doesn't burn properly.

That's because it's mostly china clay - in too many odd sizes to use anyway - but wet  glossy  magazines become nice tiles when wet = new uses.

Cheers.

[manicscousers]

Shredded and composted or scrunched up and composted. Must admit, very glossy stuff goes in the council paper bin 

[ericelf]

any thing paper especially personal paper work I soak in bucket for couple days then add to compost bin

[gavinjconway]

Good for the bean trench...

[cornykev]

I use newspapers shredded in my compost bins and trenches, also wrap food waste, bones etc to put in the green bin
Plain envelopes get the same shredded treatment or save for storing seeds
Windowed and glossy go straight into the council recycle bin.   

[antipodes]

I am starting to think that a good investment would be a paper shredder!!! Although I am dreaming more of a strimmer!!! At my old work we had a document destroyer and I would sometimes bring home sacks of shredded paper for mulch. Don't have that anymore.

[lottie lou]

Think carefully about buying a strimmer Antipodes.  I had a large patch of grass at side of my plot which was up to me to maintain.  Bought a nice strimmer a few years back.  Hardly been out of garage since as its too heavy for me to carry down to the plot and the devil of a job to start.  Find my sickle much easier to handle plus it can be left in shed without too much worry about theft.

[Vinlander]

Think carefully about buying a strimmer Antipodes. 

I must say strimmers on allotments don't seem to make much sense - I see (actually mostly hear) people spending as much time as it takes me to pull up the long grass between the paths and the beds - but they have to do it two or three times as often as I do because I'm getting 50% of the roots every time I do it - and that's on heavy clay... Why do people want to deafen themselves every couple of weeks using an expensive machine to do a worse job?

I think it's mostly just being and heard seen to do something 'virtuous' makes them feel cleansed - plus a little bit of showing off their buying power.

Very much like wearing your Sunday best to church - hits all their buttons at once.

Cheers.