Today’s bonus! / myLot

United Kingdom

September 27, 2023 6:38am CST

A few days ago someone on Freegle asked for some clothes hangers. I offered as we have far too many, but the person said we were too far away as they were recovering from surgery and couldn’t travel far. So I said I would drop some off one day. Today was a nice day for a bike ride so I popped over with them. And on the way back I passed a skip where I found some useful things being thrown out, including a set of metal hoops such as are used to support fleece or netting in the vegetable garden, two large plastic crates I can use to take excess apples to the local food larder, and a novelty Christmas decoration headband I can wear when I’m on duty at the panto. So a win all round! All rights reserved. © Text copyright Fleur 2023.

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snowy

@snowy22315 (179715)

• United States

27 Sep 23

I love to find useful things that are being discarded. It is nice of you to drop things off anyway.

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snowy

@snowy22315 (179715)

• United States

27 Sep 23

@Fleura Hmmm, maybe it should become a regular part of your route.

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

@snowy22315 New ones come and go all the time, I could spend all my time cycling around the town spotting useful 'trash'!

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

It just makes you wonder what other things are you missing when you don't pass that way!

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (47125)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

27 Sep 23

Do you have a wagon attached to your bike?

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

No but I have a basket at the front and one at the back, and several bungee cords.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (47125)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

27 Sep 23

@Fleura Very good.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (470768)

• Switzerland

27 Sep 23

You have been very kind to offer to bring them the hangers.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (470768)

• Switzerland

28 Sep 23

@Fleura We are also reducing the quantity of things we have at home. I bring a lot to the local charity.

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

It was just a short bike ride on a nice morning, and it saved me throwing them out (which of course I wouldn't do, I would just keep them cluttering the place up forever) - so why not?

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (338657)

• Rockingham, Australia

28 Sep 23

Good for you. There is a road verge pick-up soon and there is all sorts of interesting junk lying on footpaths. I need to go for a walk too.

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

28 Sep 23

The problem with just leaving things on the roadside is that if no-one picks things up they just become litter. And of course different people have different ideas about what is rubbish.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (338657)

• Rockingham, Australia

29 Sep 23

@Fleura The council goes round and picks up all the stuff. It's only there for a week at most. It's amazing what gets chucked out though.

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Ron Rybs

@Ronrybs (19003)

• London, England

27 Sep 23

So you came back with more than when you set off!

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

@Ronrybs Quite right, who wants to live in an empty box?

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

Indeed I did! Probably not a win from the de-cluttering aspect, but the hoops will be used outside and I've already given one of the crates to the food bank so it isn't that bad!

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Ron Rybs

@Ronrybs (19003)

• London, England

27 Sep 23

@Fleura Sitting here surrounded by books and many other items, I feel de-cluttering is over rated!

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (176652)

• United States

27 Sep 23

Another great score! Have a good day.

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

Many years ago I remember reading in a little book on self-sufficiency, something along the lines of 'Skips are a useful source of everything from firewood to building materials, I never pass one by' - I think that should be our family motto!

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (176652)

• United States

28 Sep 23

@Fleura It all helps toward keeping things out of the landfill too. Have a great day. What is a skip?

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

28 Sep 23

@LindaOHio A dumpster, I think.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (91942)

• United States

27 Sep 23

Blog worthy!

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

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Yanzalong

@yanzalong (18988)

• Indonesia

27 Sep 23

You rode an MTB or road bike? Do, you are ready for a Christmas celebration, right? That's great.

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

A road bike. Yes I volunteer at our local theatre and at Christmas we are encouraged to wear decorative items, so now I'm ready!

Always smiling

@allknowing (135322)

• India

27 Sep 23

That is how it is When you help someone that gets rewarded.

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

28 Sep 23

It would be nice to think things were that straightforward!

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (105254)

• Marion, Ohio

27 Sep 23

You did a good thing and got rewarded

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

It did seem that way!

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12912)

• Ireland

27 Sep 23

@fleura I took a defunct printer to the local dump today and spotted many a useful piece of ’rubbish’ being tossed aside, and a big notice telling us not to remove any items. Pity.

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Fleur

@Fleura (30166)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 23

It's criminal that they won't let us take useful things away, isn't it? Last week one of the staff did say (when a man was handing over a tile cutter, used once) that they donated usable items to charity. I hope that's true.

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