One person's junk...

Katnap · Thu 06 Sep, 2007 20.11

Today at work, I was helping my manager to pack away some stuff in order for it to be moved to another office. Next door to the office, is an area of loft space which is used as a storage area. We took the opportunity to do a clear out of the storage space, which had been used as a bit of a dumping ground. I am now in possession of an electric guitar, four or five LPs of Baroque music, a sheepskin coat which is grubby but otherwise in good condition, a hammock and a pair of worn-but-still-with-the-box Doc Martens boots (size 9).

Amazing what people leave behind/chuck away.

Lorns · Thu 06 Sep, 2007 20.19

Wow!. People laugh at me when i tell them i love rummaging in skips, peoples lofts or the dump. And when people leave the stuff they aint sold in the bushes at local Bootfair. Found a few quids worth of stuff before now.

It's not everyday you get something for nothing.

Katnap · Thu 06 Sep, 2007 20.28

Skips and tips are good places to be nosy. My uncle got a marble fire surround/mantlepiece for almost free after spotting it being chucked in a skip outside some house which was being gutted.

Lorns · Thu 06 Sep, 2007 20.31

I love a good ole scavenge.

my shed and loft is full of enough stuff to start an ebay skip shop.!
" I hearby patent that Idea!"

Jenny · Thu 06 Sep, 2007 23.16

I've found some nice clothes just abandoned at the roadside, some even in my size.

Jamez · Fri 07 Sep, 2007 00.45

Jenny wrote:I've found some nice clothes just abandoned at the roadside, some even in my size.

Oh I'm on a forum populated by tramps, drunks, mentals and magpies. Lovely.

rob · Fri 07 Sep, 2007 07.23

My neighbour dumped a stereo system outside my flat the other day saying it didn't work, it's now in full working order in my lounge.

Spencer For Hire · Fri 07 Sep, 2007 10.44

Sounds like some of you might like Freecycle if other people's tat is your thing.

rob · Fri 07 Sep, 2007 10.54

Spencer For Hire wrote:Sounds like some of you might like Freecycle if other people's tat is your thing.

Been a member of the Basingstoke Freecycle for a few months now (on the recommendation of a friend), thanks to that site I've managed to get rid of a sofa, countless armchairs, and a computer.

Lorns · Fri 07 Sep, 2007 18.10

Jamez wrote:
Jenny wrote:I've found some nice clothes just abandoned at the roadside, some even in my size.
Oh I'm on a forum populated by tramps, drunks, mentals and magpies. Lovely.

Since when have you become all snobby? Also for someone who has left the forum, been banned and returned here you must have something in common with us. Or do you only post these days to look down on everyone?

So which one are you? Mental, Magpie, tramp or drunk?
After much self analysis i discover i am a drunk magpie.