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Taking saving to the extreme - becoming a Freegan!
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Oh yes - curtains, (complete with pole) washed them & they are fine! A pizza baking plate (still going strong 5+ yrs later). The chap can't drive past one without getting a twitch.....0
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On a Saturday I go to town and park in a council offices car park which is opened as a public car park for that day (£1.30 for 2 hours) anyhoo...
They have a skip in there permanently it seems - and have had an office clear out and next to the skips there were FILING CABINETS.
I asked (fortunately there was someone around as the clearing was going on) and I now have a dinky little file cabinet (modern too) with one A4 drawer for suspension files and an ordinary drawer on top.
In Ikea similar ones are upwards of £40. No key for the lock but who cares
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Incidentally I know where there's a skip with a really nice looking 6 panel internal door in RIGHT NOW...and I haven't even looked IN the skip...Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily Dickinson
Janice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear0 -
I will admit to rescuing a glass microwave turntable from a discarded microwave by someones dustbin. Well have you seen how much they are to replace? and this was the exact same model so saved me £20.
why can't we designate one day a year that we can put out items that we don't want and anyone can take it for free.0 -
why can't we designate one day a year that we can put out items that we don't want and anyone can take it for free.
They do this in other countries & it makes such sense - would save the councils a fortune & also the landfill which is pretty ridiculous.
I have a pal in Dallas who goes round with his pickup once a week & makes money off ebay with what he collects & people are glad of getting it taken away.0 -
why can't we designate one day a year that we can put out items that we don't want and anyone can take it for free.
The village I used to live in does regular "swap shops" where people just turn up with stuff they don't want and can take away anything they like. I used to use freecycle quite a bit but got fed up with people not coming to collect things when they said they would.:staradmin:starmod: beware of geeks bearing .gifs...:starmod::staradmin:starmod: Whoever said "nothing is impossible" obviously never tried to nail jelly to a tree :starmod:0 -
I have liberated things from a skip in the street before now, nothing particularly interesting though, just magazines and things like that.
When I cleared my dad's house I hired a blooming expensive skip for the weekend and filled it on the first day, I was desperate for people to take stuff from it so I had room to dump more, and would you believe nothing at all was taken! I dumped perfectly good dining room chairs, pictures an oak coffee table that I actually had propped up against the skip as i believed it would be gone in minutes. I even added a note in the end out of desperation 'please help yourself'. The odd thing was the house, and therefore the skip, was in an area traditionally considered 'poor' yet pan sets, a fully functional microwave and complete sets of dinner plates went untouched as did 500+ vinyl records.
I ended up having to hire three more skips and a van to do runs to a charity shop. Even then I sold the house with most of the large furniture, plus all the china, plates and glass ware left in it (buyer was happy for me to do so).
However, in my supposedly well off neighbourhood my builders left a nasty old pink plastic bath and WC in the front garden and it was gone in 30 minutes! It must have gone in a van and we never even heard them pull up!I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the eBay, Auctions, Car Boot & Jumble Sales, Boost Your Income, Praise, Vents & Warnings, Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning , UK Holidays, Days Out & Entertainments boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know.. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.0 -
Them well-off folks are allus hanging out of skips, their 4x4s blocking the road.0
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:rotfl::rotfl: at that ChoilleDon't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily DickinsonJanice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear0 -
I have recently asked a neighbour for the wood out of his skip for our stove and he was more than happy although I'm sure he now thinks I'm a bit weird.0
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We were puting in a long over due new bathroom suite. Hubby left some stuff in our back drive, till he had time to take to the dump. Anyhoo we were sat at the dinner table when my DS1(then 9), gets up looking quite indignent and says "Mum theirs an old woman walking down our back lane with our old pink, split bath panel under her arm.:rotfl:Grocery challenge june £300/ £211-50.
Grocery challenge july £300/£134-85.0
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