What's been your best 'blag'?

[bwfc07]

Mine was a couple of months ago at work,The greenhouse on the lottie had been a target for the young stone throwers (like house bricks really)
So there was 8 windows what needed replacing so i was shopping around for plastic but no joy its a bit pricey....But one rainy afternon sat in the van at work on 1 rail station car park a van pulls up 3men get out with walk up to the staion train shelter and start changing the ( Poly-carbonate 6x4 windows ) so in a flash i was straight over did a bit of bartering and ended up with 12 6x4 windows Lovely days graft......and after an hour scrubbing grafiti off there bang on ......The little terrors wont break theses.........My best blag cos its the only 1 ive had up to now surly knowing me there will b more

[Seahorse]

Got a good one today A posh interior design shop near me had put a big wooden 'Osborne & Little' display stand out with their rubbish. I reckon it will be great for personalising, then growing climbers up It was quite heavy though, may need a Radox bath later

[trebellangeminired]

Sorry peeps but it has to be the greenhouse. When we moved here there was a 6x8. Last year we outgrew it and as luck would have it a really nice person offered us another for the princely sum of dismantling and removal. We even got tea! And staging, plant pots, linking stake things and slabs. I take her a box of veg as often as poss as a thank you. Then the in-laws decided they could manage with one and would rather use the space for chickens and gave us another 6x8. My incredibly clever OH joined the two together to make a 6x16. We lost a flower bed and have had to compensate number one son for restricting the area he can travel on his swing but it's worth it. The great thing is, they are often advertised free in the local press as long as you can dismantle and remove. Just keep an eye out then go for it. Even bribing family and friends to help you would still be cheaper than buying a new one.

[Dipzy]

Mine was a local garden nursery, I had a look around and out the back was a dumping ground for plants that they'd gotten rid of and tones upon tones of plastic pots. They said I could help myself as long as I didn't take too many. I helped myself to 15 large pots, may go back later in the season and get some more seeing as I don't have an allotment at present.

[squashysu]

mine was a couple of weeks ago, i was gonna get a composter for school, but had to wait for advise from the head, anyway my friend said, i have a huge water butt and composter going, me being quite selfish said, the school wont want the butt because of stale water etc, but i will and also the composter, they want a dalek one, so now i have a 200lt water butt with stand and all the gubbings and a £40 square composter..........great blags!

[jackie j]

Nota a blag but bought 11 large paving slabs for 60p each yesterday from our allotment shop.

[Mrs Dobby]

Best freebies, ooh, a 10'x8' greenhouse for the plot for free, just had to dismantle and move it, another 8'x6' greenhouse for the back yard, and the inheritance of stuff from taking over the plot next to ours, complete with a lovely shed (complete with well established and very large grapevine growing about 10' down the length of the front), lovely 8'x6' greenhouse, lean to and lots and lots of fleece, black plastic, blue tubing and heavy duty polythene!

[poozie]

A friend of ours gave us her rickety old 6x8 shed. My husband stripped off the cladding erected the frame at our allotment. We covered it in plastic and its a fantastic greenhouse which has withstood gale force winds for 3 years.