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My mother loves to hoard glass; empty jars and bottles. She saves up a huge load and then my father would have to almost literally break his back carrying several filled storage cases down two stairs to take to the council's recycling station. And this whilst there is both a nearby glass recycling bin and one near the supermarket my parents went to once a week.
Since the start of the year my parents have their groceries delivered, so my father doesn't regularly ask about the glass. Last week I went into the upstairs front room ("storage" aka junk room) to get something and saw four filled storage cases plus another storage case worth of glass on the floor.
I discussed it with my father and neither of us feels like carrying all of it downstairs in one go. So I'm now going to go to the nearby recycle bin with a bag of glass twice a week, until everything is thrown away. After that we'll put a bag somewhere for my mother to fill up, somewhere where I can keep an eye on it, if it's full enough I can go to the bins. We've tried this before and it didn't work, but if that happens again I give up, then my father has to keep an eye on it.
My mother doesn't know that we've decided on this. She will tomorrow, when I bring the first filled bag downstairs. I wouldn't be surprised if she somehow blames it on me.
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