Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Calamity Jane]

Another sunny day in Broadstairs and yet another trip to the tip. We always seem to have so much rubbish. It doesnt seem to matter what job we do - gardening, housework etc we always end up with a tip to the tip !! I dont remember MY parents EVER going to the local tip. What did people do with all their stuff?

[Alis girls]

Go to the tip might take a picnic and make a day of it. No seriously I work round the corner from ours so do the tip run before work.

[meezers]

I hate going to the tip, it's one of those jobs I spend longer thinking about than doing. I always seem to have bags of garden waste and hedge clippings - and I don't garden that often

I remember trips to the tip when I was a kid. Dad would just back the car up to a heap of rubbish at the landfill, open the boot and sling the lot out while us kids would pick through the heaps looking for treasures obviously well before health and safety stepped in

[abwsco]

Oh, we've always gone to the tip as did parents. Infact it was a standing joke that it was my late Mum's treat and a weekend wasn't the same without a visit there

[BarbaraJ]

we used to call ours the dump but now its a recycling centre and you can't just chuck bags of assorted rubbish there you have to put it in the right skip. good really but a pain when you have something you can't find a skip for lol

[Olly]

I hardly ever go. Most garden waste goes in the composter or in the green bin if it's too much/too big/too woody. Anything capable of being shredded goes through the shredder and then in the compost/chicken run/bin. Anything too big for the shredder goes into the garage to dry out and be cut up for burning. Any waste wood is also saved for the woodburner.

 

I Freecycle electrical goods or furniture, and clothes, books, etc go to charity shops. My local council collect bottles, tins, paper, cardboard and plastic and I can usually fit smaller random things in the black general collection bin, as it never has much in. Don't think I've been to the tip for over a year!

[chick wiggle]

Dont get me started on the blinking tip! Im on first name terms with the guys down our local tip now We're in the middle of practically renovating our house so have tonnes of rubbish

more names on the xmas card list!

[Kirstine]

If my parents had any stuff that they couldn't repair or pass on to friends & family then it went to the school jumble sale, was burnt on a bonfire or sold to the rag and bone man when he came round on his horse-drawn cart (yes really, right into the 1980s). My friends' more middle-class parents went to the dump with their Volvo estates!

[tara]

We got loads of rubbish in our wheelie bin at the moment my silly mother suggested we go out when its dark and chuck it in the farm at the end of my road l said mother this is a nice area we dont do that l think my mums getting confused so l dread to think were they used to put there rubbish

[Calamity Jane]

I can remember the 'rag and bone' man and an 'any old iron' man. That must have been in the 1970's I think..... Plus my dad would burn all sorts of what we would probably call 'toxic' nowadays.

[Space Chick]

We still have a rag and bone man come around

 

I have been frequenting my local tip a lot recently as have been having a clear out so I actually have a useable guest room again

[The Dogmother]

I hardly ever go. Most garden waste goes in the composter or in the green bin if it's too much/too big/too woody. Anything capable of being shredded goes through the shredder and then in the compost/chicken run/bin. Anything too big for the shredder goes into the garage to dry out and be cut up for burning. Any waste wood is also saved for the woodburner.

 

I Freecycle electrical goods or furniture, and clothes, books, etc go to charity shops. My local council collect bottles, tins, paper, cardboard and plastic and I can usually fit smaller random things in the black general collection bin, as it never has much in. Don't think I've been to the tip for over a year!

 

Me too

 

We have a rag and bone man as well, also one who collects just s"Ooops, word censored!" metal.

[chick wiggle]

I could not believe it, actually only last week, i heard an old familiar cry, when i looked out, there was a rag and bone man calling out for all his worth, they cry never changes does it. I think the last time i heard that was probably in the 70s

[The Dogmother]

S"Ooops, word censored!" metal prices are at an all time high, so there are lots of them about.

[Aunty e]

Our recycling van doesn't take cardboard, and we've been buying a lot of large appliances/furniture, so I've been taking cardboard down a lot to the tip. They have recycling sections, so managed to recycle old laminate flooring, cardboard and metal rods. The only thing I couldn't recycle on the last trip was old carpet and gripper rods. They're very nice down there, and it's handily about five minutes from our house - woot! I do miss the communal bins from our old place though, I have to store rubbish in the garage til I get a chance to drive down to the tip at the weekend.

 

Most of my unwanted furniture seems to end up at my mum's house or my sister's - like the bermuda triangle for old Ikea furniture!

[Egluntyne]

I could not believe it, actually only last week, i heard an old familiar cry, when i looked out, there was a rag and bone man calling out for all his worth, they cry never changes does it. I think the last time i heard that was probably in the 70s

 

Goodness! I haven't seen one at all since I left Manchester in the early 80's.

[Bramble]

It's funny, I was at my Mum's at the weekend and during that time, there were four different s"Ooops, word censored!" iron men (is that the same as a rag and bone man) calling out at various times during the weekend. Never get them where I live now.