Gotta love skip-dipping!!

[veggiechicken]

Some of my neighbours put things out on the pavement for passers-by to take. I had a brand new Hawes watering can and 3 very nice stoneware pots from one house, a pine bookcase from another and a child's blackboard - don't ask.
I put out bay tree cuttings and other herbs, prunings for the flower arrangers and apples for the nibblers, with a notice saying "Help yourself". It all goes!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Don't mind folks taking stuff out of my skips but hate the bu**ers who fill it with their rubbish before I can get mine in. Or even worse I get my stuff in sharpish and when you come back in the morning its over flowing.

Colin

[veggiechicken]

When I had my drive done with paviours, the skip was on the grass verge on the other side of the road to the house. At dusk, I could see my neighbour near it, with a wheelbarrow. Needless to say, I went over to the skip and said, in my best threatening manner - "are you dumping your rubbish in my skip?" he looked a little sheepish, said I wasn't supposed to see him but he was taking some of the offcut paviours out of the skip to use as backfill for a footing for his shed. This is the neighbour who asks me at a party - Would you like a glass of wine or your own box! How could I be cross?

[binley100]

Know what you mean Colin.........

[chris]

There are a few little hitlers on tip sites.

Ours has a large green roundabout in the middle, anything you don't want but is in good working order can be left there and taken by anyone. Including staff.

Which site is that mikey? I usually goto tirhir or whatever it is called.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Binner's that brings back a heck of a memory.

I was working up in the Peak District many years ago in charge of a site where the lads were installing 5 central heating systems a day. Arrived on site just before lunch to find the electricians Escort van on top of the skip (the skip was full so no damage done). When I asked around the silly man had let it be known that he wanted to leave early that day, this would have meant that the installers wouldn't get to test out their work. Result van on skip to be returned has and when he had completed his days work.

Blooming heck was that really 32 years ago?

Thanks Colin

[singleseeder]

............. with a notice saying "Help yourself". It all goes!

And if it doesn't, leave it out overnight with a notice on it, "For Sale £20", and it will definitely be gone in the morning.

Well, who would take anything worth nothing?

[Newton]

I was walking past a skip with really old household bits and pieces. I picked out a picture frame and noticed a picture of matchstick men working an allotment under the shadow of an oppressive factory. With a ray of light on the lottie.

I took it to sotherbys and it turned out to be an original Lowrie. Amazing. They then auctioned it for £1.3m.

Then I just woke up.........I figured I had been reading this thread last thing last night.......I had to share it with you!

Maybe one day.......

[julesapple]

I have dreams like that after watching all these peeps on the Antiques Roadshow with their 20p carboot/charity shop finds now worth a King's ransom.

Jules

[Nicos]

I'm sorry.

.......but am I the only one who scans past the title of this thread and EACH time reads 'skinny dipping'

te he!!!!....I reckon skips are the DIYers equivalent to a chef's 'Ready Steady Cook' bag!!

[veggiechicken]

No Nicos, I've been "reading" exactly the same thing! That's what made me read this is the first place!!

[Potstubsdustbins]

And I am saying nothing, honestly nothing.

Colin

[veggiechicken]

In my case its fatty-dipping!

[snohare]

I'm so relieved I'm not the only one reading that, sometimes my speed reading throws up real windscreen-crackers on the road to comprehension !
As for skinny dipping, my bathroom heater is broken and I fit the same size of trousers as I wore in my teens...but that's probably because I am burning so many calories trying to keep warm in bed.
( Put those filthy minds away !)

[binley100]

I never thought a thing until you brought it up ..............