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

balabooberlies

Hi VL

after writing my post this morning I took my dog for a walk............and found another 5p.  Are people throwing them away ?

And yes, totally agree about the balance.  The more I give the more I seem to receive.  I also count nature, kindnesses and all other goodies as gifts.

Bala

lucyhope

I don't get any roadkill coins any more, my gandson calls it treasure and is like greased lightening when any is spotted! I occasionally  get a 'day rider' ticket on the buses (if i'm going on more than bus to my destination) and always offer it to someone getting on when I know I'm not going to be using it again that day.

BooJewels

I'm fascinated reading this thread.  I'm just clearing my parents' house and my sister and I were wondering if leaving stuff outside (there's a large drive area) with a sign saying 'please help yourself' was appropriate.  There are many things that fall between the charity shop / sell / keep / car boot categories and yet too good to just throw.  Like lots of quality bits of timber stacked in the  garage and pieces of solid 'brown' furniture in the house.  Ironically, there are some pieces of nice teak he took out of a skip himself about 40 years ago.

I feel encouraged to give it a go.  I love the idea of someone being able to use something that we can't.  But I'm also a smidge concerned about the message it also gives out - I've gone to great lengths to not make the house look like it's unoccupied and being cleared.

goldfinches

BooJewels said:

I'm fascinated reading this thread.  I'm just clearing my parents' house and my sister and I were wondering if leaving stuff outside (there's a large drive area) with a sign saying 'please help yourself' was appropriate.  There are many things that fall between the charity shop / sell / keep / car boot categories and yet too good to just throw.  Like lots of quality bits of timber stacked in the  garage and pieces of solid 'brown' furniture in the house.  Ironically, there are some pieces of nice teak he took out of a skip himself about 40 years ago.

I feel encouraged to give it a go.  I love the idea of someone being able to use something that we can't.  But I'm also a smidge concerned about the message it also gives out - I've gone to great lengths to not make the house look like it's unoccupied and being cleared.

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.

VeganLois

We have a village FB page specifically for freebies.  Perhaps your area has the same?  Items go in a flash.  Pallets are super popular 😊  I have found Sunday to be the best day If you’re leaving stuff outside. People go for a stroll etc.  Often items are on the village green for maximum exposure!  If there is a central point nearby you, nobody knows which house it belongs to.

BooJewels

Many thanks for the suggestions @goldfinches and @VeganLois.  Using 'decluttering' sounds like a good idea.  There is a facebook page for 'buy nothing' for the village, but one of the rules is that you must live in the borough and be able to prove it (not sure how, didn't go any further - and you can only join one group, so that would stop me doing the same local to me) - which I personally don't - and I only visit periodically, depending on the latest lockdown/bubble arrangements, as my husband is rather poorly, so I need to be more careful than most.  The facebook page for the village seems to have a really unpleasant tone at the moment, so I won't bother with that just now.

But I'll be there to stay for a few days shortly, so I'll look more carefully at local options nearer the time and maybe print and laminate some notices in advance.  Thanks for the ideas.

balabooberlies

Haven't had the greatest day so reading all the encouragement to recycle/re-home goods is heartwarming.  I echo all sentiments because I know of people that know of people in dire straights so will often collect needed goods when spotted.

bala

balabooberlies

Hello

have found myself on extra dog walks the last few days.  Have seen lovely bedside cabinet, modern slim computer monitor and various other things.  Hope those that need them find them.

I myself picked up 2 pristine lampshades today.  One blue, smaller one cream.  I can use both.............

bala

sillyvixen

Back in may/June lots of people in my area were leaving their lockdown declutterings out for passers by to take if they wanted. I always had a quick look but found nothing of interest until the beggining of June, 2 hours before my new to me car was due to be delivererd I came across a new (unused still packaged) set of car foot well mats. Just what i needed!!

balabooberlies

Excellent SV !

Nothing this week but I have become extra vigilant when walking my Dog...............