Comments on: Dump

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:00:40 +0000

I cleared my house out last week and made about £50 in a car boot sale yesterday, but it was admittedly quite a lot of work during precious weekend time.
Other thing to note as a benefit of car boots/flea markets is that there are still a lot of people about who need them: I was very happy to sell my mum’s old slippers to a pensioner for 20p (actually I was shocked that anyone would want them, and felt like giving her them), and a large proportion of my customers were low-paid immigrants who had no problem haggling me down as I just wanted to get rid of what was my junk.

By: Ian's Mum

Ian's Mum — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:51:22 +0000

Ian’s Grandpa used to take everything as ‘it would come in handy some day’ miss him for lots more that though!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:18:14 +0000

Clair – I’ve used Freecycle in the past (both getting and giving) but had too many timewasters so stopped.

And it sounds like a letter to our council might be in order, suggest one of them there “recycling” areas (I’d use the word re-using as the entire place is, sorta, the recycling bit…

By: Clair

Clair — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:30:35 +0000

It’s amazing what people will take off your hands if you post it on freecycle. A colleague of mine advertised 4 tiles the other day, and someone picked them up.

Also, an increasing number of dumps have a recycling area attached to them, for furniture and stuff that is too good to throw away.