Emptying the garage.

[xoggoth]

Read somewhere that leaving stuff outside for people to take is quite fashionable. Darn good idea too, why waste things by chucking them away or taking them to the dump?

[bobspud]

Read somewhere that leaving stuff outside for people to take is quite fashionable. Darn good idea too, why waste things by chucking them away or taking them to the dump?

It's more immediate than stuff like freecycle, with the added bonus that no one comes inside your house.

Works both ways too, my wife found a really nice coffee table while she was in London last year, and the woman was really pleased it wasn't going to end up in a dustcart.

[Old Greg]

I remember living in Bruce Grove near Tottenham ,right by the police station

On the plus side there were plenty of decent takeaways and it was cheap to live

What worried me was all the police signs asking for witnesses for a stabbing especially as you got closer to Seven Sisters

I never saw any violence beyond feral youths throwing fireworks at cars and pedestrians but it was hardly reassuring

Has it got better these days ?

I remember a night down the Black Boy playing pool with some Eritrean lads. One of them started hitting aggressively on a gay Australian girl we vaguely knew. My mate pretended to be gay and snogged the Eritrean to get rid of him. Turned out the Eritrean was gay and started snogging him back.

A nasty situation was only averted when the Eritrean and Australian went round the side for a shag.

Happy days.

[mudskipper]

In Oz, they have 'council cleanup'. The council sets a date when it will come round and collect your junk. You stick it on the kerb a week before, and people help themselves. My sister acquired quite a decent sofa from it. They do it twice a year.

Excellent idea - gets stuff recycled, and, because the council collects for free, stops fly tipping. Think I had to pay about £30 to get the council to take my old suite away.

[Scrag Meister]

In Oz, they have 'council cleanup'. The council sets a date when it will come round and collect your junk. You stick it on the kerb a week before, and people help themselves. My sister acquired quite a decent sofa from it. They do it twice a year.

Excellent idea - gets stuff recycled, and, because the council collects for free, stops fly tipping. Think I had to pay about £30 to get the council to take my old suite away.

We have free council collection for one off items such as washing machine, tvs or whatever, but what we are chucking out is a load of really old small tat, wood, miscellany from the garage.

Maybe I'll try a sample of the wood, have a pile of it, this evening and see if it goes, someone may have a wood burning stove they need kindling for.