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If you want a job done properly, do it yourself? ;-)

I'm really lucky where I live now my lovely neighbour puts mine out for me and Brings them in but when hubby was alive he always did it

My OH takes the bins out and our next door neighbour's.

When emptied he brings the bins in including all our neighbours
as they are working. :-D

Say I spend an hour in a week, 4 hrs month, dealing with domestic waste or I could delegate the job to the same guy who does the cleaning, hoovering etc.

4 hrs work on my own account pays far better than what I pay not to do this stuff.
That is why London has tens of thousands of people working in support jobs some quite well paid. Few are Brits though.

So the butler deals with the bins got it. :-D

Oh puts them out when he leaves for work.
I bring them back and put the neighbours away too.

In the last 5 mins, I washed and disinfected the food waste bin that was emptied yesterday

Realised that OH doesn't close the food waste bags the way that I do.
I tie them up in a way that nothing can escape into the big bin
OH ties each corner leaving a gaping hole in the centre!

The bin had stinky fluids on the bottom and smelled like a land fill site!
The warm, dry weather hasn't helped.
( no rain here at all since 13 Apr)

Yucky Yuck Yuck! but.... It smells nice now. :-D :-D :-D

I allow I'm a bit odd ;-) ( in so many many ways lol).

Not only do I like putting rubbish out, but one of my favourite jobs, that I can sadly no longer do, was cleaning out the drains in my former house. They had been oddly arranged to go round as many corners as possible so periodically 'backed up'...nothing quite as satisfying as clearing a blocked drain :-)

Around here it is the dude's job. That and washing dishes.

That's because when you have had strokes, you apparently forget how to clean toilets and tubs, wash floors, vacuum cobwebs, put the towels in when you wash a load of laundry, and pretty much anything else, leaving the dishes and taking out the trash, recycle and compost bins.

Which you do at about midnight on the appointed night, because you haven't lost your 'just on time' business practice even though you no longer work in a business ...

The most entertaining thing you do, when you have had strokes, is take a taxi to the wrong hospital to pick up your partner (which you have to do because you just can't abide spending three hours at the hospital waiting, so she went alone for a minor procedure that required a sedative, which means she isn't allowed to go home alone), while she sits there in bed for an hour being the only one left behind in the recovery room, with the nurses staring at her like she's a lost parcel, until you remember which hospital you went to with her the last time she had the procedure ...

Saving your capital for a rainy day, Joonie. :-D

Just in time production is an admirable method for doing just that.

What are you going to spend your spondoolicks on?

I favour the tried-and-tested wine, dancing and song :-D :-D :-D

Well that worked, for a change.

"It's garden bin day tomorrow, and it's about to rain".
He immediately got out of his chair and moved the wheelie bin :-D

Joonie - we forgot where we'd left our daughter in Cyprus. The Taxi driver asked if we wanted the little hospital, or at least that's we thought he said. Luckily, once we realised it wasn't the correct building or area, he took us to the other likely hospital. That turned out to be correct.