Tip Shops

robbiegal · November 27, 2013, 06:48:14 PM

here with the op shop bins

if they are full and you put stuff beside the bins - $$ fine for dumping
if there is stuff beside the bins and you grab some it - $$ fine - you are stealing (dumped rubbish???)

then you can't put this or that and so on in the bins

honestly - I almost don't bother anymore with recycling - it is all too political

vinnies out at Tuggeranong - have great set up
bins in the outside wall of the store - glass here - clothing here etc
no BS - just drop it off

if we take it to the other op shop and carry it out the back for sorting then they are happy

purplepennyhunter · November 27, 2013, 07:58:21 PM

We had some really cool :angel: gold looking chandeleirs that we replaced and didn't need, but they were still good! So I put them on Gumtree and within the hour a lovely hippy lady came and took them to hang in her trees in her back garden. A win all round.

The day we laid the back lawn we had some spare, it was cheaper to order a little more and get free delivery than order less and pay delivery. So I put that on Gumtree too and some guy loaded up his Tarago and he was happy too.

edit: Oh wait then there was the excess paving sand we had that we put on Gumtree and a lovely guy stopped by with his wagon and shovelled it all in and took the wonky wheelbarrow too!

And Mark just reminded me of the intermittently faulty washing machine I never wanted to see again and a lovely young fellow came around and took it to convert into a flower pot. He decided that it was probably better than his own and thought he might use it!!

I love Gumtree.

markn · November 27, 2013, 08:05:00 PM

I can remember when we had a couch and a chair and a lamp to throw away and we'd booked a hard waste pickup for it. But rather than leave it on the kerb (like a normal person) in a pile, PPH decided to create a carefully arranged lounge room on our nature strip. It looked comfortable enough to live in.

purplepennyhunter · November 27, 2013, 08:14:26 PM

...then late in the darkness there was an engine and some rustling and the lamp was gone....

ausjack · November 27, 2013, 08:27:13 PM

we have one free kerb side a year so all the scrap metal lot come out and it doesn't take long and most is gone so the council doesn't have much to pich up and it's over $20 for a trailor at the dump, they weigh you going in and then out then charge like wounded bulls

trout · November 27, 2013, 08:32:46 PM

Quote from: 'purplepennyhunter' pid='35596' dateline='1385545466'...then late in the darkness there was an engine and some rustling and the lamp was gone....

It could have been worse PP.
You could have had Earl Hicky and his brother living on the couch outside your house :laugh2:

Goldseeker · November 27, 2013, 08:39:09 PM

I can remember putting my wife out many years ago. She is still here.......!

robbiegal · November 27, 2013, 09:25:38 PM

Quote from: 'markn' pid='35595' dateline='1385544900'I can remember when we had a couch and a chair and a lamp to throw away and we'd booked a hard waste pickup for it. But rather than leave it on the kerb (like a normal person) in a pile, PPH decided to create a carefully arranged lounge room on our nature strip. It looked comfortable enough to live in.

that is excellent!
what style!

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='35597' dateline='1385546233'we have one free kerb side a year so all the scrap metal lot come out and it doesn't take long and most is gone so the council doesn't have much to pich up and it's over $20 for a trailor at the dump, they weigh you going in and then out then charge like wounded bulls

yeah
they weigh here too

Fulvio · November 27, 2013, 11:55:33 PM

Best hard rubbish story I've ever heard was a friend of mine in Adelaide... she saw a huge flat screen TV box that she figured she could use for some craftyness or other.. stopped and looked at it, and found it had a telly in it!

So she knocked on the door to ask if it was a mistake, and the guy said no, he'd bought some bigger tellies. She could have it if she wanted, and he also had a second identical one. Since she didn't have a big enough car, he put them both aside till she came back with her brother, and by then he'd found the remotes, cables and manuals. One each.. very happy campers all round!

Oh, and BTW, the owner is the only one who can legally remove items from the nature strip without copping a fine, so it pays to ask. This has become big business for both councils and contractors, and they hate losing out.