General Chat

Everyone is welcome to come and empty my skip - it's here until Monday. I will be able to fit more in if it's being emptied at the same time. Tina x

Hi Rosi, My grandad, born 1905 had a 'bogey' and collected anything and everything hr thought would be useful, he would often saw down peoples trees for fire wood and collected scrap metal during the war, Ever on the look out for making a bob or two he once got my dad and his brother to pull a delapidated , old piano all the way across town with him, as young lads they were mortified!!! RIP Grandad Billy, Carol xxx

Not the same, but along the lines of being green.....my Dad was there from his young days, always making something out of nothing......one of his favourites was wine......and there was a time when we couldn't use the bath, because he was growing a ginger beer plant????? One day I was driving to my house when I passed my Dad......a distance away from his own home......seemed to be karate chopping the roses in a garden.......I stopped and asked him what he was doing......he was collecting rose petals for his rose petal wine.......the only trouble the petals were still on the roses......the devil was shaking the roses to collect petals.....

Sally, That really made me laugh!

Where I live in Australia the council do a twice a year pickup of any large pieces of rubbish that won't fit in the rubbish bin. It's wonderful to go for a walk and see what can be found. I have found an old cupboard for my laundry. A coat of paint and it's fine. An old cane chair and with a new cushion looks great and just perfect for sitting on the verandah. We put out an old bird cage, old wooden gate, bits of a washing machine, parts from half a dozen bikes and a couple of broken picture frames. All gone the next day. Hubby has picked up corrugated iron, angle iron etc. and then put them out with our rubbish for the next pickup!! Susan

Susan, Wow.....As they say one mans junk is another mans treasure!

My son even does this now too, he found 8 folding chairs outside someone's house recently, went and asked and she was glad for him to take them away. Of course there is also FreeCycle? where you advertise stuff you no longer want/need and others come and get it.