Gotta love skip-dipping!!

[veggiechicken]

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 !)

Snohare, stop now, please. I know where this sort of conversation will lead to - where you keep your drawers!

[salome2001]

well it got you all to read the thread!!!

[Hilary B]

I think around here the tip policy is that it is yours until you put it in the skip, then it belongs to the council, but it is a recycling depot anyway.

[di]

I'm so desperate to read this thread but am staying strong...I love a bit of skip raiding but will resist any temptation until I'm sorted...got to make room for any finds

[Mr Dave]

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

Very glad I'm not the only one.
Worse thing about having a skip is these scrap metal people coming 'round routing through your skip and helping themselves. I'm sure the Skip hire companies tip them off (Excuse the pun ). I once had a few bits of metal in the back yard and heard these people looking through it so ran to the door and told him to put it all back...Regretted it straight away as it could've saved us a trip to the time. Ruddy principles etc haha.

[salome2001]

he he... I'm feeling very smug today we went to London today to visit friends and while driving down their quite stylish street in Clapham we noticed a loft ladder- a nice wooden one- sitting on the top of a skip. I presume from the building rubble that they are converting the loft. We have been talking about getting one since we moved in, at present DH has to haul himself up through the hatch off a rickety 6ft ladder. So... into the Jazz it went!!

I think I am getting a bit of an obsession with skips.

I know I feel physical pain if I have to drive past a pallet...

[BarleySugar]

On Friday I was walking up to my allotment, and saw a skip with paving stones where the householders were having a new hard standing area put in. There was no one at home, and with the number of complaints from householders along that road, I wouldn't have dreamed of going to get the car and just helping myself. After I had finished at the plot, I walked back past, and saw to my dismay that the builders were back, and one chap was just finishing breaking the slabs into tiny pieces.
Today I was visiting a friend in the same road, and on my way back, I could see some more paving stones so I knocked and asked , not knowing if the householder might be one of our complainants. I apologised for being so cheeky and asked when their skip was due for collection and could I have the paving. The chap seemed a bit bemused, but said I could if I could get them before they came for it. I waited on tenterhooks until OH returned with the car, and we collected fifteen 45 cm unbroken slabs, and about 10 unbroken bricks.
I think the householder was even more amazed when I knocked the door again and handed over a homemade jar of plum jam, and a jar of chutney .