Skips!

[Merry]

1. My next door neighbour has put a skip on the front `cos she`s having lots of `improvements` done.
I asked her why she`s covered it with a tarp and tied it round with rope.
She said, "People have been pinching stuff out of it."
What villains eh?

2. My son-in-law drives a skip lorry for a big (bigger) company that collects from the big department stores and shopping malls. You should SEE the stuff that follows him home!
Books from a big stationer.
Home furnishings from a posh shop.
We`ve even got a flourishing, fruitful fig tree that came from the bins of a major garden centre.

[2steps]

I always have a peak in skipss I pass never know what you might find

[the.fee.fairy]

i want to know someone that works with skips!!

we got 2 kids bikes out of a skip last year. We had a do that was like a husky, and he likes pulling a sledge in the snow, so we wanted to make him a cart to pull.

[Wombat]

I got an old metal bath, which is now growing a nice crop of water chesnuts!

Nev

[goldy1]

"Skip Diving" one of my fav pas times

[Andy Hamilton]

Ah skips are definatley the free sweet shop of the selfsufficientish, I have got window boxes, bikes and Dave got his computer from skips.

As for the neighbour who covers hers to stop thieves, surley this is helping her out the more that gets taken from the skip the more that she can fit in saving her money as she might not have to get another skip, seems very daft to me.

I might have to start following your son in law around merry

[den_the_cat]

its dim isn't it? I've had someone come out and tell me off for taking stuff from a skip outside their house. I just walked off in the end.

There were rumours where I used to live that the workers at the local tip doubled their income by selling dumped stuff and I can totally believe it - if you look at what comes up on freecycle and assume that people who don't try and recycle just dump that stuff, there must be a load of amazing stuff going to landfill

[PurpleDragon]

I am often amazed at what goes into the tip - and into skips. The time before last that I was at the tip, there was an exercise bike in there that was in way better condition than the one I use in my house.

There are often things sitting beside the workmans shed and I reckon he sells them.

I would love to get a job at the tip. I would be freecycling like crazy! I'd get chucked off the list

[Merry]

Son-in-law`s garden/garage is like Aladdin`s cave to a re-user like me. But my daughter has told the kids to stop saying "We got it from a skip!" when people admire stuff.
Seriously though, it`s instant dismissal if he was caught selling anything. He daren`t even do a car-boot sale with his own stuff in case somebody grassed him up!

[2steps]

my children often ask 'oh, where'd you find that?' when we have something new too used to us aquiring things rather than buying

[dibnah]

most of our furnature and kitchen is not out of skips but is from people who where throwing it away. We got some great 50's funrature from an old co-op that was closing down.

[Millymollymandy]

I always thought the problem with skips was that everyone else chucked their stuff in your skip taking up all the space.

How things have changed!

[Merry]

Ee, when I were a lass folk used to chuck stuff in yer skip!!
Them were the days eh?

[den_the_cat]

most of our furnature and kitchen is not out of skips but is from people who where throwing it away. We got some great 50's funrature from an old co-op that was closing down.

When I bought a house every single bit of furniture in it was someone elses cast offs I was really shocked when I was speaking to friends who were saying "when we got to the house the [retail store] people were assembling the dining room furniture and the lounge furniture was already there and we just put the beds up and we were sorted" and remembering how I sqeezed sofas into the back of my car and tied them in and then carried a second hand washing machine down three flights of stairs with my dad.

The funny thing is, much as I love them and think their house is very nice and well cared for, I wouldn't want to live in it - I much prefer our mix of junk shop, hand me downs, stuff from the workshop down the road and the odd thing we've made ourselves, with the odd splurge into Habitat ostentation.

[2steps]

I agree totally. My parents live in a 'show house', everything matches and is prefectly in it's place........ arrgg not for me. we built most of the furniture we have either from adapting exsisting things or from salvaged wood and yes it doesn't match and may not even look that good but it does the job it was intended for and I like the way it's all sort of jumbled together in a big mix up