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mandycharlie
Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 211
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 05 7:38 pm Post subject: Just call me stig of the dump |
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Who loves going to the tip....
I absolutely adore it, hubby has to take me or endure serious sulks from me.
Best buys... an oak plan file (for storing A1 sheets of paper of the type a drawing office would use, bought for �15.00 found on flea bay many times for nearly five hundred.. (one day I will sell it)
A very comfortable office swivel chair, bikes for the kids, full patio set, stainless steel pans, terracotta pots, A level books for no.1 son, kilmner jars, computer games and thats my list from just the last six months.. |
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Bernie66
Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 13967 Location: Eastoft
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 05 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: Just call me stig of the dump |
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mandycharlie wrote: |
Who loves going to the tip....
I absolutely adore it, hubby has to take me or endure serious sulks from me.
Best buys... an oak plan file (for storing A1 sheets of paper of the type a drawing office would use, bought for �15.00 found on flea bay many times for nearly five hundred.. (one day I will sell it)
A very comfortable office swivel chair, bikes for the kids, full patio set, stainless steel pans, terracotta pots, A level books for no.1 son, kilmner jars, computer games and thats my list from just the last six months.. |
All good stuff, its when the car is heavier in the way back you have got a problem |
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Bugs
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 10744
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Caplan
Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 90
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Lozzie
Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 2595
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chrissy
Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 238 Location: Pangbourne
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jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28239 Location: escaped from Swindon
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marigold
Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 12458 Location: West Sussex
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mandycharlie
Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 211
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 05 9:39 am Post subject: |
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I think my post may have been taken wrongly, so just to clarify. I would never take something without asking how much they would like for each item. Its normally very little and then its my choice if I find the price acceptable to me.
I think my council tip is owned by the council and run privately. So these chaps will be paying the council for the priviledge of selling things on. Well thats what I've been led to believe in the past and they have been doing it for as long as I can remember, living memory is over 30 yrs.
My dad was a dustman for most of his working life, five kids (two of which they adopted, me and my twin sister) stay at home mum that just did a couple of cleaning jobs to make ends meet. I wouldn't say we were poor, but we didn't have extra's. And my mum's house was spotless. Treats were often items that had been given to my dad on his rounds, I remember my first bike, being put together from two old bikes dad had been given, it had one white wheel and one black wheel,, I was very proud,,, cause no one had one like that.. oh and it was red.
Then it became a sackable offence to take anything home that somebody had given you, so that all stopped,
And now from this thread I hear that some tips actively prohibit you from reusing something somebody else doesn't need anymore/grown out off.
that makes me very sad, |
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45676 Location: Essex
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Jb
Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 7761 Location: 91� N
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Res
Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 1172 Location: Allotment Shed, Harlow
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 05 10:53 am Post subject: |
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jema wrote: |
Ours has quite a lot of signs prohibiting people taking stuff from area like electrical goods |
Thats down to current legislation. You cant sell electrical goods without them being tested and certified by and qualified electrician and you dont get them working for pennies down at the "refuse centre"
I used to work for a company that manfactured and serviced waste compactors, the machines that some councils use, that you chuck your stuff in the belly of, then it crushes it all into an enclosed bin clamped onto the front of it. No chance of recycling there.
At some of the tips, the "good stuff" was gently redirected to the side, where one could purchase for a few coins. I came home with a few bikes etc.
But the tip in harlow is quite strict, I had an argument with one council inmate, after redirecting a nice mountain bike into the back of my van from an obliging visitor, who was happy to give it to me. The council chap was furious, saying its was all on camera (yeh right) and we would be hearing from them. I called he's bluff
Having said that, they have stuff "put to the side" anyway, but I am not sure what happens to that lot? |
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hermil
Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Manchester
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