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Second homers? Reminds me. I collect driftwood from the beach while I'm out with the dog for use in the wood-burner (the wood, not the dog!). Heated my home, inc hot water, all winter (and it was a hard winter) for £40.
Anyway, I was in a little shop in Whitby and spotted a basket full of driftwood with a price of £15 on it. Now, I thought to myself, £15 is about right for a wicker basket that size, it would look nice nect to the burner and the wood will be handy too. So I pick the basket up and trott over to the till, only to be told that the price is for the wood... £15 a piece. Which means that I must have burnt about £6k worth in the winter months!!!!0 -
Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »Second homers? Reminds me. I collect driftwood from the beach while I'm out with the dog for use in the wood-burner (the wood, not the dog!). Heated my home, inc hot water, all winter (and it was a hard winter) for £40.
Anyway, I was in a little shop in Whitby and spotted a basket full of driftwood with a price of £15 on it. Now, I thought to myself, £15 is about right for a wicker basket that size, it would look nice nect to the burner and the wood will be handy too. So I pick the basket up and trott over to the till, only to be told that the price is for the wood... £15 a piece. Which means that I must have burnt about £6k worth in the winter months!!!!
hahaha.....:) Well...I have a Rosemary bush in London and down here so whenever I look at the little packs of 3 twigs of Rosemary for £1.30 or whatever, i always remind myself I own 2k worth of Rosemary bush.
This place has 200' of overgorwn garden and I cleared part for herbs....reckon I have saved? Maybe £300?
The main costs would be getting the driftwood from the highlands down to a place where it has more value. The shop would want to mark up X 3 minimum from cost, so each piece wholesale £5.....then cost of space to dry it out, time to collect and so on...and it depends on what you cost your time per hour for what you do etc.0
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