Saturday night skip dive

[taff]

You're sure that WAS a skip, right? Not, say, a bungalow...?

I have had trouble distinguishing between the two in the past...how do you do an embarassed smiley?

Demeter, are we related? My father is exactly the same. I agree with your definition of who's stuff is it too, but with added proviso, in the dark on the driveway, it's mine!! mwah ha ha ha haaaa!!!

[SlugLobber]

My ornamental garden gate (soon to be installed) came from a skip, as did some loading forks for a tractor, the wooden bench I sit on at the field, my tack locker, some more garden gates. Definitely too much to mention. Permission for me depends on where it is, although legally it's theft if you don't ask and where my sister lives (Darwen, Blackburn), the police arrest you for it! I've only asked once, when it was outside a house and there was no way we could have taken the gates without making a right racket, so I thought it best to do it in daylight hours!

[Creemteez]

We don't get many in the way of skips in the village, but there is one that has appeared recently and I noticed today that it has a HUGE roll of hessian backed carpet in it!! I'm so excited I think I might be sick! I'm sure it'll be big enough to suppress the final third of the lottie. - Might be enough over to carpet the shed!
Only trouble is it's buried under half a ton of rubble, and Husband says skip-diving is illeagal and he's not ending up in jail so for the sake of suppressing weeds!!! How unreasonable can you get? We've only been married since November, but I think this might constitute grounds for divorce.

[butter fingers]

no bin diving for me !
not when you work for the most wastefull college in possibly the world.
all sorts of wood ( allways doing re furbishment) metal room bins, wooden bath boards,wooden shelving, chairs, desks.cookers,fridges,door furniture i could go on and on, but you get the picture, and this stuff is not stolen all of it i have been given permision to use.

[Oleander]

Out for a walk in the spring sunshine yesterday afternoon, walking through one of the most affluent areas in Jersey (St Brelade's if anyone has ever visited) and I noticed coming towards me two very well dressed elderly ladies - one carrying the bottom half of a garden umbrella pole, and the other a yellow plastic bucket. I thought that they looked a bit odd - not the usual accessories to go with their golf club stylee and hermes headscarf dresscode!

Then I passed them and spotted the overflowing skip in the nearby restaurant car park!

What is it that makes a free plastic bucket irresistible even to those who live in a £500,000+ house?