Taking saving to the extreme - becoming a Freegan!

grandmasam

i always look in skips and have had water butt,stand and lid! computer table, pushchair to use for dgkids and all sorts of useful household items, the best was a set of six dining chairs from a hotel having a refurb! all fully sprung and upholstered :rotfl: locally people put stuff out by the gate and its gone overnight,i had a leather chesterfield and 1 chair some years ago , it still looks good in ds1 home {and the lady who put it out,helped me push it down the road :rotfl:

Valli

Ciscodaisy2 wrote: »

I must admit that i have many times, I usually ask so not to look stupid when they come out and have a go. I got a brand new metal bead and matress still wrapped up in the polythene from a skip down a friends road, I just knocked on thei door and asked why it was in the skip "Ohh.. umm! The colours all wrong and my wife daughter didnt like it" :cool: Took that one home and its now in my spare room!

Also, was at the dump and i needed a new moniter for my pc, saw a 17"tft moniter so went over to the hut where they all smoke and drink tea all day, and said "what you are you after for the moniter mate" he simply replied "a bag of sugar, i have run out and i cannot drink tea without it"

popped to town, got some value caster sugar.. got a new computer screen, the one i am on at the mo :rotfl:

I love the dump, and skips... But i dont admit it to other people XD

well there you are - next time you go to the dump have, in your car, tea bags/sugar/coffee then when you ask you can say 'got no cash but are these any good? and offer the tea bags...
(save the sugar and coffee in case you need to bring out the big guns!)

BangBang_2

I found some amazing stuff.. including a working Apple Mac computer with mouse and keyboard!

How about skip diving for food... anyone desperate enough to do that???

Valli

Apparently 'Fregans' do this - was on a wife swap. Had to stop watching tbh
I just couldn't cope with their whole lifestyle ethos.

mouseymousey99

Article in one of the papers the other day about that. Would I do it?? mmmmm don't think so, I'd be too scared they had put nasties on the food before putting it in the bin. Its terrible that food gets thrown away though. Thank gawd I've never HAD to do it.

ALIBOBSY

Our local tip is very good. The guys walk around watching what people are chucking and will gladly take certain items off you. Anything electrical, solid furniture, clothes amongst others.
This is council policy to try to recycle and the items are sold or passed on. If you want something you can ask and they will hook it out for you. They even have a sign which is updated each week. Last week it said "we are proud to say we recyled or reused 67% of all items brought to the tip to be dumped, and continue to work to up this figure."
They also sell the compost/soil improver made from the garden waste in the brown bins we all have for £2-fairly big bags around 40l I think.
They even recycle batteries (household and car).

Good tip really

ali x

hellypelly

I do this regularly but always ask permission from wherever the skip is I have had loads of bike's some nearly brand new in fact my son is riding around on a bike thats £300 in Halfords now, The people chucking it said there son wont use it because its the wrong colour so he twisted the handles and told them it was broken so they chucked it in the skip....
And my partner used to work emptying the skips at the yard He used to come home with amazing "Loot" as he called it Im shocked by what some people throw away
The only thing I will say Im sure once the stuff is in the skip it belongs to the skip company Im not 100% its best to always ask!

zippychick

Valli wrote: »

Apparently 'Fregans' do this - was on a wife swap. Had to stop watching tbh
I just couldn't cope with their whole lifestyle ethos.

I watched the same wife swap and it lead to a google binge on freeganism. It is something else altogether! :eek: I think they just take things a step too far, but each to their own. It is fascinating to read about though

ceridwen

hellypelly wrote: »

I do this regularly but always ask permission from wherever the skip is I have had loads of bike's some nearly brand new in fact my son is riding around on a bike thats £300 in Halfords now, The people chucking it said there son wont use it because its the wrong colour so he twisted the handles and told them it was broken so they chucked it in the skip....

Cor...well I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking "what a spoilt brat that child was....they could like or lump the colour of the bike if they were mine"....

Valli

But Ceridwen - he wouldn't have broken the bike had he known a replacement wasn't on the cards... so those parents deserve that behaviour if they have brought him up to be 'easy come easy go'.
Unlike my DS who got a bargain basement one (my choice and bought with discount vouchers) for xmas..which he found having opened other gifts (not many) - and he had said nothing...
but was THRILLED when he saw the bike - he hadn't expected it! Hoped - but not expected it.