Found on the ground...

chickadee

cat64 wrote: »

Just wondered if anyone else goes to drop stuff off at their local skip and comes home with more stuff:o. And do you feel embarrassed asking if you can take it? (at our recycling centre you have to ask and I'm sure they think I'm a right skip-rat!!).

Me and my OH do this all the time. One time he took a broken mdf cabinet to the tip and came back with a solid wood cabinet to replace it. He had to rub it down as the varnish was crazed on the top surface but now it is good as new and a much better quality cabinet than the one he was disposing of.

DS came with me one time and went home with two cricket bats, and just a week or so ago I went with an old carpet and came back with a huge pan that will be fantastic for making jam in. I had priced up a proper jam pan but they were just too expensive so I had been making my damson jam in batches that would fit in my pressure cooker pan. No more!

It is becoming a standing rule now that we must return home from the tip with less than we went with. Well, it all goes to reduce landfill doesn't it?

groatie_queen

Found on the ground - in my local Tesco's car park, someone had dumped a nearly empty container of body-building supplement in the bushes - the container looked like an old-fashioned large sweetie jar (used in old fashioned confectioners shops) but made of white plastic. Took it home, soaked the label off, washed it out very thoroughly and it is just the size for a 1kg bag of porridge oats. perfect!

foreversomeday

Once my mum found in a row 1p ---- £1

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£1

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1p!

This was before £2 coins so she was well chuffed!

A friend of mine has been known to carry home a door he found, and when we went boating in a local river, he fished out 2 coconuts! Apparently one was alright but water had got into the other one!!

Pennylane

I find loads of stuff when I'm out walking the dogs.
Just recently I found a thong :rotfl: but I left it where it was!!:eek: I have found wallets and purses (all handed in to police or owner) a security pass for an RAF base (handed to police). I am forever finding car mats (what's THAT all about?), odd shoes and T shirts.

I've found the odd fiver, lottery tickets and some coins. I've found dog balls and leads and cat bells and dog tags.

I found a bottle of expensive wine in a shopping trolley. I found a purse which flew off the roof of a passing car. Hubby found some heavy duty webbing straps ........ then realised they were his anyway!!:rotfl: :rotfl:

scrimpingbadger

My mum picked up a wallet in the street (off the ground, not from someone's pocket!) and it had £400 cash in it and lots of official ID stuff. She took it to the police station and they phoned the owner whilst she was there and he was pleased, more because of the ID stuff. She had to leave her details because of police form filling stuff and a week later a card turned up thanking her with £50 worth of M&S vouchers from the wallet's owner.

She put it towards a new winter coat. Well chuffed.

DawnW

I have a small dog with an obsession with tennis balls; she plays with them for ages, then 'skins' (removes fluff), and then 'kills' them (splits them open, at which point they get thrown away). The whole process takes a while, and is interspersed with pestering people to throw them for her. But I have never once bought her one. She finds them most times we go out for a walk... It is really strange, because she will disappear into a clump of grass or some bushes and come out with one, pleased as anything. Surely tennis balls aren't that smelly? Pity I couldn't train her to develop these talents in other areas...

sillyvixen

when on holiday in their caravan last year my parents noticed that a lot of campers buy barbeques for their holiday in the camping shop and leave them by the bins at the end of the holiday to avoid transporting them to and fro. at the end of their holiday they picked up 3 and brought home. i now have a barbeque all it needed was a good wash, its nearly new and i am waiting for the sunny weather so as i can use it - the other 2 are in my dads shed as spares!!

champys

Best one was a lovely bottle of perfume in its duty-free bag, all forlorn and on its own in the departure lounge. I handed it to the flight staff who tried to find the owner and later announced it in the plane after take-off. When nobody claimed it, they gave it back to me, explaining that staff wasn't allowed to keep it!

Aril

My friend found a green dustbin in the local river near us. He's cleaned it up and turned it into a water butt. Clever chap!
Aril

phizzimum

there used to be some wombling threads over on the discounts/money off coupons forum.

I think people can get away with it if they're not greedy. There have been people caught out and investigated and then they've lost all their clubcard points on various accounts (and for some serious collectors that can mean a lot of money) It will show up on Tesco's records that you've had a lot of points added manually, so it's probably not worth it for receipts that are only worth 1 or 2 points.