What's essential buying?

[papasmurf]

Locally there is a massive "fly" tipping problem.  So I only use someone I trust to remove rubbish. (They have their own sorting area around a mile away.)

The problem being there has been so much "Destroy-It-Yourself happening in the village, it is going to be some time before he can get to my home to do a clearance job. (The local reclamation depot is still over run and using an odd and even car registration system.)

[Borchester]

It would be but it is actually illegal to take from a skip on private property without permission. As I pointed out to him - if he had tapped the front door I would have been happy to let him rummage as it was he overstepped the mark. Simple.

Have a similar problem with Madam. The local travellers will nick anything and as long as it reduces the volume of the skip I am all for it. In fact, when we had the extension built the pikkies were so busy that instead of the originally estimated 5 skips we only needed 3. And that saved me 400 quid.

But it did not stop madam standing cross armed and po faced in front of the skips when the diddicoys hove into view.

[T00ts]

Well quite.

You had a pile of rubbish that you wanted shot of and when a lad started to take it away you gave him a flea in his ear instead.

There is a morale in this story but I have to say Toots that it is a bit beyond me. 

It would be but it is actually illegal to take from a skip on private property without permission. As I pointed out to him - if he had tapped the front door I would have been happy to let him rummage as it was he overstepped the mark. Simple.

[Borchester]

I had a large amount of plumbing work done and the plumber left a whole pile of stuff on the driveway telling that he had made a phone call and someone would appear. A week later I called him and he came and took it away himself. On the other hand I had a skip parked on the drive  while I cleared the garage and late one afternoon a young man approached and started to lift a large pile of cable. I had a word suggesting it would have been more appropriate if he had asked my permission first. He left both empty handed and shame faced.
I half expected him to return with an army but perhaps my words went to heart.

Well quite.

You had a pile of rubbish that you wanted shot of and when a lad started to take it away you gave him a flea in his ear instead.

There is a morale in this story but I have to say Toots that it is a bit beyond me. 

[Thomas]

LOL I told my neighbours that the skip would be there and to feel free to put any stuff in once I had finished. Only one did with a very small bag. I guess I live in a 'nice' neighbourhood.

sounds like it toots , same as us. We get on very well with our neighbours , and often do the same when we have had building work done /skips / vans coming to pick up rubbish.

Maybe pats neighbours dont quite like him........cant think why?

[T00ts]

We got a skip for some building work being done. Within three days it was half filled with other people's junk. Just lucky we'd ordered the larger size...

LOL I told my neighbours that the skip would be there and to feel free to put any stuff in once I had finished. Only one did with a very small bag. I guess I live in a 'nice' neighbourhood.

[patman post]

I had a large amount of plumbing work done and the plumber left a whole pile of stuff on the driveway telling that he had made a phone call and someone would appear. A week later I called him and he came and took it away himself. On the other hand I had a skip parked on the drive  while I cleared the garage and late one afternoon a young man approached and started to lift a large pile of cable. I had a word suggesting it would have been more appropriate if he had asked my permission first. He left both empty handed and shame faced.
I half expected him to return with an army but perhaps my words went to heart.

We got a skip for some building work being done. Within three days it was half filled with other people's junk. Just lucky we'd ordered the larger size...

[T00ts]

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I had a large amount of plumbing work done and the plumber left a whole pile of stuff on the driveway telling that he had made a phone call and someone would appear. A week later I called him and he came and took it away himself. On the other hand I had a skip parked on the drive  while I cleared the garage and late one afternoon a young man approached and started to lift a large pile of cable. I had a word suggesting it would have been more appropriate if he had asked my permission first. He left both empty handed and shame faced.
I half expected him to return with an army but perhaps my words went to heart.

[Barry]

Back in the Black Country, we had rag and bone men, which swept the streets of any old metal, they used to be itinerants, but now they seem to have been replaced by eastern Europeans in dodgy looking old vans with a loudspeaker.

[Borchester]

Round here we've got a couple of freelancers who patrol the streets and scavenge any metal goods — from a clothes iron and vacuum cleaner, to a cooker, fridge or washing machine — just don't leave any metal stepladders or shears  in the front garden while you go in for a cuppa.

As for retailers removing old goods — some do, but charge for it, and others advertise they'll do it for free, but add a fee at the check out.

I have a long story about Curry's, which is why I'm happy with just checking out goods in its stores, then buying online from AO (others are available). The whole deal is costed up front before any transaction takes place and delivery slots are adhered to — even installation if required...

As a general rule I find that if anything is left outside the Pikkies pinch it in within a couple of days.

It is an odd thing, but the van pulls up, the gyppos get out, look left and right and when they think that no one is watching, they nick whatever they can find. Mean while we are hiding behind the curtains and silently urging them on.

Funny buggers gypsies.

[johnofgwent]

Nipping back on topic (well sort of, slightly) for a moment

I have just had a reply back from my regional Assembly member Mark Reckless. A name you might knw ... !

I asked him if the assembly members had been given an opportunity to actually vote, or even discuss, this issue

No, they have not. It's all being done by Statutory Instrument, secondary legislation, a well known wheeze for getting dictatorial measures out if you can get away with it.

[papasmurf]

Round here we've got a couple of freelancers who patrol the streets and scavenge any metal goods — from a clothes irone and vacuum cleaner, to a cooker, fridge or washing machine — just don't leave any metal stepladders or shears  in the front garden while you go in for a cuppa...

We some times have those here, usually results in a rash of phone calls to the police and recovery of stolen property.

[patman post]

Back in March when the first lock down and shielding happened, I had an outbreak  of domestic appliances dying, all of them were essentia, and I had  not choice but to order new online.
Just one problem appliance shops usually take the dead/scrap appliance away when they deliver the new one.
Online the suppliers do not.  The result being I have a skip load of dead/scrap appliances I can't get shifted.

Round here we've got a couple of freelancers who patrol the streets and scavenge any metal goods — from a clothes iron and vacuum cleaner, to a cooker, fridge or washing machine — just don't leave any metal stepladders or shears  in the front garden while you go in for a cuppa.

As for retailers removing old goods — some do, but charge for it, and others advertise they'll do it for free, but add a fee at the check out.

I have a long story about Curry's, which is why I'm happy with just checking out goods in its stores, then buying online from AO (others are available). The whole deal is costed up front before any transaction takes place and delivery slots are adhered to — even installation if required...

[papasmurf]

Back in March when the first lock down and shielding happened, I had an outbreak  of domestic appliances dying, all of them were essentia, and I had  not choice but to order new online.
Just one problem appliance shops usually take the dead/scrap appliance away when they deliver the new one.
Online the suppliers do not.  The result being I have a skip load of dead/scrap appliances I can't get shifted.

[johnofgwent]

Better still, order from Amazon — no need to leave home...

As one of torfaen councillors posted - i hope tongue in cheek - on the borough facebook page, amazon would like to thank Drakeford for boosting theirturnover way beyond their wildest expectations by making them the only retailer allowed to bring things into wales from england ... and by not paying the uk any tax worth a damn, all the more for me cheers jeff ...