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[Sir Tigger KC]

Getting rid of stuff can be a nightmare. 

I have 2 old sofas which are in good condition and have removable washable covers.  I've put them on gumtree and freecycle as free to collector thinking that a young couple or someone with dogs would snap them up. Nada! 

I think I'll put them up on ebay for £1000 next and describe them as shabby chic! They'll fly out the door! 

[aaronjb]

We just donated an old bed to the British Heart Foundation - one of the few charities that will send a van to collect stuff, which is very handy.

Soft furnishings, though, I think need to have their "fire standard" tags intact, which is a problem when we want rid of the dining chairs (because the cats have destroyed the tags as dangly play-things )

Still, they took the 20 year old but perfect condition solid pine bed frame and the mattress. So at least that's not cluttering up the hallway, now.

[deviator]

Fill baloons with the paint and stand on a motorway bridge. Launch a few, video the results (to make youtube money) and then leggit.

[biggriffin]

Getting rid of stuff can be a nightmare. 

I have 2 old sofas which are in good condition and have removable washable covers.  I've put them on gumtree and freecycle as free to collector thinking that a young couple or someone with dogs would snap them up. Nada! 

I think I'll put them up on ebay for £1000 next and describe them as shabby chic! They'll fly out the door! 

Just put them in the front garden, between the BMW and Mondeo.

[Shackeng]

Getting rid of stuff can be a nightmare. 

I have 2 old sofas which are in good condition and have removable washable covers.  I've put them on gumtree and freecycle as free to collector thinking that a young couple or someone with dogs would snap them up. Nada! 

I think I'll put them up on ebay for £1000 next and describe them as shabby chic! They'll fly out the door! 

Anywhere here to help Sir Tig? https://www.dorsetforyou.gov.uk/article/387075

[New POD]

I've just put paint tins in the grey wheelie bin ..... never thought about it before 

I took a washbasin to the tip a year or so ago. "Oh, that's soil and rubble. £3.50 please".

Was in my building attire and had no cash on me.

Chucked it back in the car and broke it up once I got home. Chucked the bits in the wheelie bin. 

The harder it is to get rid of stuff, the more things will be disposed of inappropriately. It's their choice. Paint tins fit in the wheelie bin nicely.

My old roof off my old garage, was "re-purposed" as a base for the hardcore to sit on in the hole that I'd dug for the new garage floor. The "Hardcore" was the concrete walls smashed up up with a pick axe.
This saved a fortune in sand cement and stone. 
because *query possibly* asbestos roof panels need to be specially dealt by a crack team of bureaucrats in white coats with a clip board and a hard hat and concrete slaps are a pain to lift into the boot (or a skip)
Actual concrete paving slaps were advertised on an allotment site notice board as FREE to first enquirer.  And are now being re-lifed as a small wall for raised beds. 

Paint Tins ? I'm saving them all until I can work out a way of building a house with them.