At the shop we have open rubbish store. There we put all the empty boxes , plastic and rubbish for recycling.
The rubbish is put in a cardboard box marked rubbish. It contains tea bags, popped balloons ,banana skins and all the usual non recyclable.
Collection day is Thursday but quite often over the weekend the box marked rubbish is taken.
If you were after a bit of identity theft you'd take one of the boxes full of paperwork?
Why would anyone take a box of scummy old stuff?
Any ideas?
Perhaps it is a homeless person, they have previously found something worth having/eating so they continue to do it.
People will take any old shit.
Back when I had the bathroom redone, we took the toilet out and skipped it. By the time we'd got the bath out, the toilet had gone. WhoTF wants a used 1960s/70s Armitage Shanks throne in bronchitis yellow?
I put an old radiator out in the back lane. Walked through the house, got into the car and drove the 100 yards up my street, then back down the back lane. Radiator gone, in 2-3 minutes.
I now leave anything of even negligible scrap value a couple of hours before taking it to the tip. Saves me a journey, and someone is getting some sort of value out of my rubbish.
WhoTF wants a used 1960s/70s Armitage Shanks throne in bronchitis yellow?
When I was in my teens that is exactly the kind of skip find that would reappear somewhere inappropriate overnight
May be someone's taking it for their compost heap?
Any Allotments nearby? 🧐
I once had an old washing machine sat in the garden for me to take to the tip. It was there for a couple of weeks as I procrastinated about the trip then one day it disappeared.
I wasn't sure whether to be angry someone had taken it from my garden (it wasn't positioned particularly close to the edge of the garden) or happy someone had saved me the trouble.
Tea bags and banana skins should be going in the compost……
People will take any old shit.
I had a bag of well-matured horse poop stolen off the drive.
I once had an old washing machine sat in the garden for me to take to the tip. It was there for a couple of weeks as I procrastinated about the trip then one day it disappeared.
Round these parts such things go loads quicker. When we moved in here there was loads of metal stuff that needed to go - I once heaved an old gas fire out onto the verge, went in to get something else and by the time I came back out, the gas fire had gone! 🙂
WhoTF wants a used 1960s/70s Armitage Shanks throne in bronchitis yellow?
All that old oddly coloured bathroom stuff is actually quite sellable now
When we moved into our house the garage had a knackered oak kitchen unit in it. My wife and I took ages to get it out it was maybe 4 cupboards and a sink. Did it in the evening. Council were due to pick it up in the morning. Phoned to check our address as they couldn't find it. Someone had taken it. It would have needed a crane to lift, or 6 people.
Never particularly happy when things disappear, it means people are around taking things. It could be rubbish, or it could be my bike. Means I'm extra careful. We did have some building materials go missing once also. In our Yard, locked and invisible. Someone was obviously looking around. Thankfully part of the work was a more secure gate and light.
WhoTF wants a used 1960s/70s Armitage Shanks throne in bronchitis yellow?
It’ll now be in Nathan Barleys bathroom in Shoreditch
Totally ****in’ Mexico, yeah!
WhoTF wants a used 1960s/70s Armitage Shanks throne in bronchitis yellow?
My sister used to have a next door neighbour who had lots of bits of old bathroom suites in his garden. He would sell them to insurance companies. So when a customer rang the insurance company and said "oh dear, my bronchitis yellow sink is broken and you can't get replacements any more so we will have to replace the whole suite", they might say "don't worry, we have managed to source a replacement sink for you". 😆
Once had a leak in the kitchen, and I thought it was coming front he dishwasher. Pulled it and stuck it in the garden while we cleaned up. Found out whilst cleaning it was a leak from the sink waste. It was getting late so left it in the garden* over night.....
*More pretty open yard.
It was still there when I got up in the morning, but unfortunately not when I got home from work. Perfectly good bloody dishwasher.
And yet you can’t give away perfectly decent functional stuff on free cycle.
(Fridges, beds/mattresses, tables and chairs etc all go begging regularly)
People are weird.
A business getting their rubbish collected from a cardboard box? Doesn't your rubbish collector expect you to use a proper bin?
The proper bin involves using plastic bags that rip. The rubbish and the box are taken away with no spillage.
(Fridges, beds/mattresses, tables and chairs etc all go begging regularly)
I give and receive lots from Freegle, but I'd have to be pretty desperate to want someone's old bed/mattress.
WhoTF wants a used 1960s/70s Armitage Shanks throne in bronchitis yellow?
I build filmsets and often in a team that is having to source kitchens and bathrooms from different periods so theres often a demand for this stuff, but just not to go into anyone's actual home.
How many balloons do you normally get through?
Times are tough - the OP has to supplement the shops income with a bit of exotic dancing in the evenings
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We used to go and "steal" rubbish at work. Go out at 02.00 hrs take the bin bags back to the office and go through them, then put them back. Best one was full of old middle eastern food and human hair - my colleague vomited with that one.
WhoTF wants a used 1960s/70s Armitage Shanks throne in bronchitis yellow?
All that old oddly coloured bathroom stuff is actually quite sellable now
