Kerbside skip browsing - have you? Would you?

What is more annoying is finding things in your skip that you didn't put in there.

Whitewavemark2

It is theft unless you get permission from the owners.

Oh dear, I retrieved a newish Michael Palin book from a skip when a neighbour's house was cleared before she went into a home.
I'm sure she'd have gladly given it to me had she known.

Our neighbours recently had a skip and I asked if he had room for an old garden bench. He happily came and collected it, skipped the rotten wood and salvaged the cast iron ends. Both of us happy.
But while the skip was on his drive, people would drive past, having a recce, then help themselves to some of contents. They said they had permission. Hmmm?

My daughter had a skip a couple of years ago and someone dumped a fish tank in it. My son was delighted because his fish were rapidly outgrowing their old tank.

Whitewavemark2

It is theft unless you get permission from the owners.

You beat me to it, Wwmk2

It is theft unless you get permission from the owners.

The 2 terracotta pots you can see and the blue pot on the right were from a skip.

Last time we had a skip I came home to a truck parked across my drive and two males in the skip.
They were rude and intimidating, I parked round the corner until I saw their truck go past 🤬

I had to get skips to clear out my Dad’s house. They were frequently raided through the night, much to the concern of his elderly neighbours, who weren’t happy with the skips in the first place! We call them skip rats round here, but had they only asked, they could have taken what they wanted in daylight and not terrified the old folk.

I’ve had a variety of lovely stuff from skips. And our local tip.

I have but knocked on the door and asked first. They were quite happy for me to take an old, small wing back chair as it emptied part of their skip. I had it cleaned and recovered and it's one of my favourite chairs. That was about 15 years ago, not done it since.

Don't think I would investigate the neighbours skips though.

My husband would and has, I have to stop him accumulating more junk useful stuff.

Our neighbours have a skip and my dh asked if he could have some pallets from it . They were happy to get rid , more room for their stuff

Say a bike had been dumped in a skip and I fancied it, I would call and ask. There is really nothing I can ever think of that I would retrieve from a skip. Recently I crept out in the dark to add something to one locally.

No, I wouldn’t but a lot do. It is called recycling here.