General Chat

Has anybody picked anything up from a skip ??? LOL I just have.... :-D ;-)

picked up a nice fireside chair once and a large tupperware cake saver

Oh yes, lol I am the mother of the skip diving champion of 2000 and some odd :-D though not recently, there don't seem to be as many around and those that are contain mostly builders rubble.

I was just walking Mums dog and there was a stunning front door frosted glass with all the bits and bobs that goes with it.....phoned bf he came round to pick it up ......lol .....

I wasnt sure if it would fit but got it here and measured it, it is a perfect fit !!!!
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I am now being called Stig of The Dump ;-) ;-) pmsl

My grandad did and cariied it from south London to north london coz they wouldnt let him on the underground with it then kept it for 35 years .....then he died and we found it in his cellar ........

My cousin took it home and used it

it was a seven foot plank of wood!

My cousin used it as a gang plank to his house boat

Mersey that's brilliant) good on you:))

Yes a few years ago myself and nephew found a brilliant Fish Tank thrown out by a garden centre in skip, we checked with them first...AND A BELFAST SINK beauty it is too and still my garden, needs replanting though:)

Quite agree with you RR, they are mostly full of rubble....:(((((

jude :-)

Rose you need to up your game LOL

Lol Kemp

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Im impressed with them all.....I wasnt sure if anyone would admit it LOL

Kemp...aww thats lovely, good on him too:)

jude

yes got a lovely 1930s outdoor leaded light shade in clear and green glass....was original as it still had the old wriing on it,still have it up.... a stone urn planter and lead garden ornament of a boy with a flute,,that got sold much later at auction and fetched £140,!!

mind its illegal now to take stuff out of skips as its classed as stealing,,,its recycling to my mind..

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Really....??? I was going to make it my new hobby ;-) ;-)

I was going to say, be careful, it is the property of the owner of the skip and if caught you can be charged with theft.

ooooer :-S

You need to ask first these days...not that the scrap metal collectors round here do lol.

I feel naturally drawn to skips - think it might be due to the fact that I come from a long line of general dealers on my paternal grandmother's side and bricklayers on my maternal grandmother's side. Love rummaging around in rubbish to see what I can find and always pinch a few bricks if I see them - SO useful in the garden. 'im Indoors despairs of me :-D

It was in a back lane :-S

Well its mine now LOL ;-)

Well done Mersey - if I'd seen it first I'd have nicked it :-D

I once rescued a garden Gnome from a skip , I tried to to walk on past it but he looked so sad and forlorn that I felt compelled to save him . I took him home , re-painted him and named him " Skipper Crumbly " ( as he was a bit pitted and flaky ) .
I have absolutely no idea where he has gone now , ( it was years ago that I rescued him ) . I wonder where he is ?

Pmsl Amanda,,,,,maybe he's gone back to Mummy and Daddy Gnome :-D :-D

Wend it was bloomin heavy I have to say Lol but wel worth the strain!!! :-D :-D ;-) ;-)