O/S WOMBLING, Road Coinage, Skips, Roadside 'finds' etc

t14cy_t

25p added to our coin pot. zeus brought home chips to share with his brother and sister and chickens and ducks. have a fab wednesday everyone. xx

bit_by_bit

Found a penny in a cr park at the weekend but missed an amazing skip as I was on my way out to Portsmouth and couldn't stop. Sooo much good stuff on the top. 

Poppy_Golightly

2p found this morning, bring this year's grand total up to 7p

My neighbour popped 3 lovely cat greetings cards through my letterbox. Gradually building up the luck!

balabooberlies

oystercatcher said:

Todays find was a bit of an odd one. As I walked Doggo round the cemetary I spotted a six inch living Christmas tree in a pot on top of a pile of rubbish in a bin. It looked perfectly healthy so came back and has replaced the somewhat larger but dead christmas tree in a pot in our front garden, victim of the heatwave in the summer. I was sad when I found he had died as had survived a good few years. This gave me a lift on a very low mood day, small pleasures. 

To add to the madness...the old tree was called Chris, the new tree is called Noel and we talk to them . 

You made me smile.  How lovely............

TripleH

goldfinches said:

There's a thing I read about Australia or New Zealand where on certain special weekends you put out things you want to give away and everyone cruises round their neighbourhood in a car and pulls up and puts whatever they fancy in their boot.
It has a name that I can't remember of course but I'm wondering if you could do something similar with a notice saying something like "Decluttering, free to a good home, get it by tomorrow or it's gone".
That would avoid giving the unoccupied impression I would have thought and stuff would probably go quite quickly especially if you stuck labels on saying "teak or working but old fashioned" or whatever you thought people would want to know.

Apologies, I know this is an old posting this thread, but I can confirm the above is true.

Almost exactly 10 years ago I was living in Sydney and the lease was ending on the flat share (key tenant was going back-to-back Brazil for a bit after getting his citizenship). I helped him carry the furniture none of his friends needed to the curbside (that was still good to use as he said it'd be gone by the morning, which was true. 

Sorry about that, a reminder of a different life and person I once was.

oystercatcher

TripleH said:

goldfinches said:

There's a thing I read about Australia or New Zealand where on certain special weekends you put out things you want to give away and everyone cruises round their neighbourhood in a car and pulls up and puts whatever they fancy in their boot.
It has a name that I can't remember of course but I'm wondering if you could do something similar with a notice saying something like "Decluttering, free to a good home, get it by tomorrow or it's gone".
That would avoid giving the unoccupied impression I would have thought and stuff would probably go quite quickly especially if you stuck labels on saying "teak or working but old fashioned" or whatever you thought people would want to know.

Apologies, I know this is an old posting this thread, but I can confirm the above is true.

Almost exactly 10 years ago I was living in Sydney and the lease was ending on the flat share (key tenant was going back-to-back Brazil for a bit after getting his citizenship). I helped him carry the furniture none of his friends needed to the curbside (that was still good to use as he said it'd be gone by the morning, which was true. 

Sorry about that, a reminder of a different life and person I once was.

One of our neighbours married a lady from South Africa (they met online ) she was amazed that people took furniture etc to the tip here, over in SA things are left at the roadside and just vanish overnight !

Today's womble was a huge chunky candle, totally unused, found at the cemetary in a bin,  I don't rummage in bins but often things are on top or beside bins. I have been using candles to help warm the room a bit sometimes. This one should burn for many hours! There is always a wombling bag in my pocket when I walk Doggo !

balabooberlies

Marvelous and Wonderful.

My sister also lived in Sydney and told me of this custom.  Strict rules that if your stuff didn't go by the end of the day you had to bring it back in.  She also as a young wife and mother (cash strapped) found some great bits of furniture for the children.

Waste not, want not.  

bala

x

t14cy_t

wow, where do the weeks go!!! hope everyone is well. zeus tore a muscle in his shoulder 3 weeks ago and is just starting to do his normal walks again, though still on medication. he was very proud to bring hope a whole carrier bag of chocolate bars that had been thrown away and 11pence to the pot. he feels he has regained his hunter gather title again. .......DH has been away so have been walking all 3 dogs individually. xx

BooJewels

I've been meaning to post this for a while.  I asked here some months back about giving stuff away at the end of the drive, as I was clearing my parents' over-filled house to sell.  My sister was reluctant at first, for the message it gave out, but came around when it was evident just how much stuff we needed to find homes for. 

So we adopted a 2 prong approach - stuff at the end of the drive that could be taken for free and stuff inside the garage for sale (largely on a 'make us an offer' basis) - variously on different occasions - depending on our availability to attend to callers etc.  It all worked surprisingly well - despite the weekends we did most of this being during heavy storms. 

A lot of stuff was taken for free and we also sold a lot.  My father was a car tinkerer and had a totally stuffed garage with tools, car parts, cans of oil, tow ropes etc etc.  It's really true what they say about one person's trash is another's treasure - we sold things we'd put in the 'ready for the skip' pile, but didn't sell things we were sure would go easily.  We also encountered several dealers who would arrive and say "I don't suppose you have any . . .".  Whilst I'm sure we didn't get as much for things that we would have elsewhere, getting anything was a bonus and got stuff out of the house.  We also sold stuff already in the charity shop pile, so those were a proper bonus.

So thanks for the inspiration and encouragement here to do that - it has truly made me happy that stuff that was largely junk has found new homes.  Dad would be tickled pink at the idea that some of his old oil cans are going to become light fittings in a Cuban themed bar and that a grown man did a happy dance in the garage with a grin from ear to ear because he'd found an old tin of Castrol grease that's not made any more - and he restores old motorbikes and this stuff is like gold dust.

I now have to tackle the storage unit full of stuff still left . . . 

mandy47

 I walk my dog every day and often found the odd coin. It's been months since my last find but today I found 20p. I wondered if poeple are being more cautious with their change or are we gradually turning into a cashless society. 
some of my younger relations don't carry a wallet or purse, just their phone. 
Maybe the days of finding money are coming to an end.