Every day, you’re there, waiting for me on the door mat. With your too-well-stuck-down-flap and your usually pointless contents. And most of the time, you have a little shiny plastic window too, which makes me worry about putting you in the paper recycling bin.
Why do you torment me so, envelopes?
What can I possibly do with you that would make me hate and resent you less?
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John and I prefer the ‘reduce’ option when it comes to newspapers and choose to read our news online most of the time. But every now and then, we buy a paper to read on a journey or over lunch, or get a free ad-rag shoved through the letter box.
It seems a shame just throw them in the green bin once we’re done – but aside from keeping a few around for temporary dustsheets, we don’t have that much use for them.
Any ideas?
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Oh, I know. How very Blue Peter. Except we don’t have very much need for a model of Tracy Island.
We don’t use kitchen rolls that much so mostly have the shorter toilet roll-size tubes lying around the place.
Short of just recycling them in our green bin, what are the alternatives?
