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I read all these posts with great interest and with a considerable amount of envy, really.
I am teased and ridiculed by all the members of my family when I look into a skip. My teenage kids say that I am a scavenger and they run away ashamed and embarrassed. Even my husband, who is fairly 'green' in his views, avoids me when I hover around skips.
I have occasionally managed to sneak abandoned bits of furniture into our house, but as a general rule I am regularly outvoted when there is the 'need' for something in the house. To me most of the stuff they want is not a real need anyway, but maybe I am excessively frugal (is there such a thing?).
My husband and kids just make a beeline for the shops and don't even bother looking for the cheaper option!
Maybe I should post this in another thread 'How do you manage with a spendthrift family' but I just had to get this off my chest!
CaterinaFinally I'm an OAP and can travel free (in London at least!).0 -
My Mum's a skip scavenger - my Dad reckons she has her own parking space down at the tip & always comes back with more than she took to chuck away in the first place!!
We laugh at her, but we've all benefitted from her blatant cheek skills at some point0 -
one mans rubbish is another mans fabness
when we moved in here there was a fabbbbbulous royal blue plastic bath and matching sink and loo which I expect whoever put it in thought was more fitting in a 300 year old cottage than a white one.
anyway celebrations twixt the dog and me as the O/F drove off with it to the tip,.
when he got back he had £20 and said that as he was unloading it a woman came racing over to him and offered him £20 cos she thought it was wonderful!!
8) 8) 8)
he didnt charge her for the bath but took the £20 for delivering it for her0 -
Tip: Take a trip round your local area the night before rubbish day, you'll be suprised what people throw out. Always knock on the door and ask if you can take it.
I haven't been refused yet and made over £50.00 from eBay last week on stuff I "found" in the street and auctioned!
Other stuff I have kept, like an Art Deco Fire surround!
Whether it's genuin antique or not I don't care, it goes with my room and it was free!This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Good idea ;D It's bin day tomorrow, I'll be out at around 10pm tonight, I'll have a good look ;DBulletproof0
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I'm new to chat forums and this thread (dont know how to tell if it's still 'live'). Anyway following on from pulling stuff out of skips..actually visiting the local tip/recycling centre is a goody. Our local one is contracted out by the council. The company that run it have a shop (shed really) selling the furniture etc they have saved from the masher. In particular their are loads of kids outdoor toys, sandpits and the like, bikes, compost bins and all sorts.0
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a friends hubby drives round late at night the night before bin day and always always comes back with a couple of hoovers
he was a hoover repair man before he retired so he does them up and flogs them in the paper makes a few bob every week to go towards their pensions ;D0 -
I remember reading this thread with interest and thought it worth reviving.
There was also a thread telling us about a message board where Cathy was posting anyone remember please?
Another one was where somebody was telling about her sister (sorry can't remember names) who had a lovely house all from secondhand and how she was really organised about her buying does that ring a bell with anyone too please?Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should get used to it.;)
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson0 -
Nobody, nothing? No more posts or best buy/aquisitions stories to add?Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should get used to it.;)
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson0 -
Next House clearance sale /stolen recovered police goods sale in North kent is Sunday 7th May at Bobbing village hall just outside Sittingbourne.It's held on the first Sunday in every month.
It's brilliant and lots of stuff goes for around a fiver to a tenner. I bought two garden strimmers and an Electric rake and an aereator for the garden for 7.00 plus 10% £7.70. I sold the aereator to my sis-in law for £2.50 and gave my eldest daughter one of the strimmers. All the electrical stuff was in perfect working order. An ex-police lap-top went for £50.00. That was the dearest item sold in over 200 lots.
I can't go to the next one as I will be in Blackpool for the Meeting ,but it's well worth going to. You can view stuff from 10.00.a.m. -12.p.m. then the auction starts then . Some of the stuff is stolen /recovered goods from the Kent police that they can't find an owner for.
Worth a look if you live within driving distance of the Medway0
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