My Mum went Shopping and she got....

[NOG]

Do you remember that game....well Mrs Nog took me to the GC today for a trip out...

While we were there we had a voucher for a free pack of 6 bedding plants...in the car park an old dear gave us too more vouchers...so we had 3 free packs of bedding plants.

On the way back we saw a skip and decided to have a nose....owner came out and said we could have whatever we wanted....so my freebies for the day is..

3 free packs of bedding plants
2 scaffold poles
1 water butt with lid
1 teak table
7 teak chairs
roll of chicken wire
pile of wood
pile of plant pots

[scarey55]

Result !!

[Bren In Pots]

Congrats on your freebies

Does make you wonder why folks throw away perfectly good stuff.

[NOG]

I cant beleive what he was throwing out....Mrs Nog said to him he should have put a "take me if you want me sign" and saved on the cost of the skip.

[allotmentlady]

what a good package! wish i could find some freebies lol

[FionaH]

nice one!

[jacob marley]

Do you remember that game....well Mrs Nog took me to.
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On the way back we saw a skip and decided to have a nose....owner came out and said we could have whatever we wanted....so my freebies for the day is..

3 free packs of bedding plants
2 scaffold poles
1 water butt with lid
1 teak table
7 teak chairs
roll of chicken wire
pile of wood
pile of plant pots

It sounds like you go shopping in a Tranny van you certainly need one....jacob

[Glutton4...]

Congratulations! Don't ya just lurve freebies?

I helped my Dad take a load of junk to the local recycling centre this afternoon - shame it's not like the old days, I could have filled the trailer up again to take back home LOL

[Hilary B]

I'm hoping to find some 'drawer fronts', or other remnants of OLD furniture (if it happens to be mahogany, so much the better).
I have a small project making carved name-plates. Mahogany is lovely stuff to carve. Most hardwoods are possible, but mahogany is the best (well sycamore is good too, but less likely to be around).
Oak finishes nice, but a B to work with.....

[matthew2riches]

I am the tranny van man when it comes to skip diving. I don't care if people call me a pikey! I've had brand new fence posts, plant pots, welded mesh, water barrels, etc.....

My biggest find was a whole roll of blue water pipe for making little hoops for cloches and tunnels.

I reckon I've saved or earned a good �100 on stuff!

[Nicos]

I'm really chuffed you've managed to 'find' all that stuff!!...well done!


(However- living over here has made me really aware about how much stuff we chuck out in the UK...decent stuff we're just fed up with- not even giving to recycling/charity shops. We really should be ashamed of ourselves)

[taff]

Well done you two!

[Pumpkin Becki]

Teak table and chairs!! Wow - I'm not telling you how much mine cost last year, and they were in the half price sale You lucky thing Nog.

[NOG]

Just needs a sand and some teak oil and it will be good as new.

[di]

We got a phonecall from a friend a few weeks ago...she had a skip & her neighbour asked how much it cost to hire as he had 100 unbroken patio slabs to get rid off!!!Thankfully,she told them to forget the skip & sent us round instead!We've managed to totlally path lottie no.1(the path to the chooks that gets treachorous in bad weather)& have several left over!
Tis criminal what some throw away.....but pretty darned handy too!