#43

We’ve got a garage so i just bung everything in there. Life’s too short, and i’m too bloody lazy.

#44

Haven’t been to the tip/dump in years. They closed a lot of the landfill sites in Ireland and any other sites aren’t accessible to the public. We can go to the recycling centres but they’re just not as much fun. I miss the days of my Dad, my brothers and I throwing wardrobes into landfills and then throwing rocks in on top of them to smash them up.

#46

around 10am every morning

#47

I love going to the tip, it’s a nice country drive for about 5 miles from our house. As mentioned above, properly satisfying to chuck stuff into a big empty metal container,

Our tip doesn’t accept soil which was annoying once when I dug out a flower bed and had a load of the stuff to get rid of. Had to drive to a merseyside tip where they do accept soil!

#48

This was quite a key part of my childhood, looking back on it. Great memories of jumping on the trailer to squash down the garden waste, then driving to the dump, turning around every now and again to see that a small branch had bounced onto the road. Also there was ‘posh dump’ in Pitsea, which took more waste, as well as the regular dump nearer our home.

#49

Yeah I remember going A LOT with my dad. I’d have no idea where we were though and my memory of it seems quite cloudy. I seem to remember chicken wire fences and it just being an absolutely huge mound of stuff and you just chucked the stuff on the mound.

#50

Also going to the dump and seeing a new estate car pull u with half a tree hanging out the back, with old material laid over the seats to stop them getting dirty, the boot held down by blue rope tied around the tow hook.

#51

Yeah I think that’s it. It was down the side of a fairly busy road. Took almost anything.

#52

Yeh I felt AMAZING, especially considering our garden had looked like this:

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All gone!

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#53

Got absolutely miles of shit I need to get rid of before I sell my car. Been meaning to go for months but, well, you know. Plus it’s closed on Tuesdays ffs.
It’s going to be fun and also exciting.

#55

I like the really big ones that have a little shop of good stuff they’ve pulled out from the rubbish. For you homebrewers there’s always loads of demijohns for some reason, and I once got an immaculate vinyl copy of Jazzmatazz from one in Devon. You can get some OK furniture as well. There’s no prices, you just make a little pile for yourself and a bloke comes and scratches his chin and goes “… fifteen quid?”

#56

How gutted would you be if it didn’t shatter, though. Can’t think of anything more disappointing.

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#57

or it just landed on its legs the right way up like a cat.

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#58

and fu-ffu-----and funnily enough, it landed on it’s wheeels, started first time and they just drove off

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#59

It is narrow and packed, all the different stuff has to go in different areas so you end up carting it all over the place. Feels great to get rid of stuff though, no idea why there is such a blockage in the mind which makes me think I will either need things in future, or it could be worth a few quid. SO the stuff that goes is absolute crap like rotten wood or old carpets. Maybe I need to read one of those decluttering books.

#61

Next week I have to do this. A garage full of 6+ years worth of old furniture, mattresses, general rubbish. Planning on hiring a big ol van and trying to do it in 2 runs. Will probably kill myself tbh

#62

Did you know you can legally dump all electrical goods and accessories including plugs and cables at a retailer that sells such stuff? I’ve dumped old style tvs on the counter of Currys.

#63

This sounds like one of those urban myths, like “it’s still legal to kill a Welshman with a bow and arrow provided you do it on a bridge on a tuesday”

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#64

*Wednesday

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#65

Need to do a trip this week. Unfortunately nothing exciting. A few light bulbs, batteries, some cardboard and a wooden pallet. Normally I use Hertfordshire’s ones because they’re more convenient, but tomorrow I need to go past the one I’m supposed to go to anyway so I’ll do that.