What was the best thing you ever pulled out of a skip?

Run_to_da_hills

"One mans junk is another mans treasure" What was the best thing you ever found thrown out in a skip? A good few years ago I found a skip in South Dublin with heaps of Triumph and BSA motorcyle parts including frames, motors and parts etc, myself and a mate emptied the entire contents of the skip all over the road until we retrieved every part, nut and bolt we wanted.

LadyE

I dont pull things out of skips

eVeNtInE

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Sparky

20 euro

I sh1t you not

jigglywoo

I don't like skips, prawn cocktail is the worst flavour ever.

brianthebard

Spankeh wrote: »

20 euro

I sh1t you not

i found 20 quid today on the ground.

AckwelFoley

i got pulled off in a skip. Does that count?

Amazing what a home less bird will do for a portion of curry and a half can of fanta.

Lilith306

snyper wrote: »

i got pulled off in a skip. Does that count?

Amazing what a homess bird will do for a portion of curry and a half can of fanta.

Hay-Penny?

Warhammer

i rather skip this thread:)

littlebitdull

A silver cross pram.... only a dolls sized one, but as I was only 8 at the time of said article coming home from a skip ...

SV

pack of condoms.

major win for the night that was in it

BrokenArrows

i found a skip in a skip once but obviously i didnt want it so i left it there.!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

My air guitar.

connundrum

brianthebard wrote: »

i found 20 quid today on the ground.

I'm pretty sure that was my €20. Was it mainly blue and white in colour with a picture of a map on it? There may have been the number '20' written on it a few times. If so, please pm me for my postal details.

Our old job used to throw out laptops after 2 years. I only found this out after I saw a load of em in the back of a skip one day. Pulled 8 of them out and sold them on to friends for a few quid each. Some worked, and some were pulled apart for spares.

FrankGrimes

A coffee table with one leg missing while on a J1 in San Diego. Our apartment didn't have no fancy things like furnishings so we were glad to have it and put it in the corner with the corner missing the leg in the corner - worked a charm. After 2 months one of the lads decided he was sick of sleeping on the floor so he puleld a mattress out of the same skip, dusted off the maggots, and thought he was lord muck.

Run_to_da_hills

ClioV6 wrote: »

pack of condoms.

major win for the night that was in it

used?

razorblunt

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

used?

Nah they're still in his wallet I'd say!

jester77

I pulled a mate out of a skip. He was meant to be staying in my house but he got fed up waiting for me to come back from the pub so he hopped into a skip around the corner and used some wood and rubble as a blanket!

phantom_lord

poor people lol

SV

razorblunt wrote: »

Nah they're still in his wallet I'd say!

harsh.













nah, posh **** are the best. :pac:

CreepingDeath

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

What was the best thing you ever pulled out of a skip?

Yore Ma ! FTW !

Ciaran B

FrankGrimes wrote: »

A coffee table with one leg missing while on a J1 in San Diego. Our apartment didn't have no fancy things like furnishings so we were glad to have it and put it in the corner with the corner missing the leg in the corner - worked a charm. After 2 months one of the lads decided he was sick of sleeping on the floor so he puleld a mattress out of the same skip, dusted off the maggots, and thought he was lord muck.

Same here, except swap San Diego with Chicago and a coffee table with recliners (proper big ass American ones), couches and beds. Good times.

jos28

Found my husband in a skip once(very drunk).

boneless

A Jack Russel.

Latchy

What was the best thing you ever pulled out of a skip

Me after i fell into one while leaning over

DJ_Spider

When I lived in the UK there was a big office clearing out everything, and I mean EVERYTHING! Computers, printers, chairs, filing cabinets, even the delph from the canteen! I got a few of the computers, managed to get about 20 of them working, sold them and took the best for myself. We also fitted our flat out with the delph and some of the furniture!


EDIT: The office was the head office for a brewery and we got a coat of arms plaque and sold it for £150! I WIN!

jcrowbar

Computer parts, on several different occassions.

Did quite well for myself out of it too

Tar.Aldarion

My housemate(LoveHammer) has found:
4 televisions
2 stereo/hifi systems
1 basketball
1 keyboard(musical)
4 computer keyboards
3 dvd players(one had a dvd in it, '300')
1 computer monitor
2 printers
1 printer/scanner/fax thing
1 standalone scanner
1 set of colouring pencils
1 paul mcgrath autobiography
2 bags of clothes, new, nicer than his own.
1 football
1 tent(he used it to go to a music festival)
My eletromagnetic theory course notes, I threw them out, he fished them out of the bin,
brought them home and went on about them being cool.
1 filthy carpet(filthy)
1 set of speakers.


Odd guy, good finds.

DenMan

I found a lovely small dog a couple of years ago in a skip (when in Malta). I was appalled, somebody had actually left him there.Took the poor guy out and gave him my burger I had just bought. He was starving. I brought him to my apartment for the night and in the morning I took him to the vet. We found him a new owner (a friend of the vet) and the last time I saw him he was happily running around in Birkirkara. I felt immensely proud. That was a good day.

the immortals

a snare drum. fixed it up and sold it for 80 pounds!!

Kold

Often pull out a lot of wood. Carve it down, bit of sanding and priming, cheaper than canvas.

hussey

a rope.

It then became a skipping rope

/I'll get my coat

Amalgam

Pulled out a load of comics recently, off Ely Place.. sold for 50 euro. That was only half. Just a fluke, walking home from the National Concert Hall, all nicely boxed. Bundled with some nice books on the Irish civil war.

Same place, across the road, about 30-40 Dell CRT's (using one of them now), black in colour, 17"-19". Various SCSI cards, controllers, cables etc.

Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad, Oric, Spectrum, 'wooden' Atari (2x) (paddles AND the joysticks) Playstations (1st one, quite a few)

IBM Thinkpad T21, various Compaqs.. a lot of windows 95/98 capable laptops.

I always have a gander at a skip in parts of Dublin where it is mainly offices, the staff don't give a sod about waste, so, if it is taking up space, out it goes, anything and everything from a PC. Full Pentium 4 Dell towers, scanners, Laser printers in a big way, inkjet, all immaculate, some boxed..

Various CPU's and motherboards, they lag behind in state-of-the artness.., but it seems its okay to throw out Pentium 3's and 4's now! A good few Durons and some Bartons.

Countless hard drives.. (erotic LOTR fan fiction on one.. Legolas and Gandalf.. person that wrote it was under 20..)

Staplers, sellotape reels, that blue paper in huge rolls you can more or less mop anything up with.. (they have them at garages also) Pens, biros, markers, highlighters, staples, anything and everything for office use.

Cardboard tubing, postal supplies.. (jiffy bags, envelopes, great savings..) empty CD jewel cases (new, about 300, all packed)

Delivery trays for fruit and veg, plastic, dark green, blue, black etc, great for garages, stashing stuff away at home. They usually come in a stardard size with stacking ridges, stable.

Valve radios (about 30 now, most working, some manufactured in Dublin), 1 Crystal set, a Fellocryst Super Receiving Set. (uses a 'Cat Whisker' and crystal)

Furniture, lighting, Massaging chair, bike(s), PC Games, music. Porn (lost of..)

I've never bought a Hoover, ever, it seems these are thrown out like a fashion now, wrong colour *cough*, not the right brand.. fine by me. Stay fashionable! :pac:

Plenty of books.

Some of the stranger items..?

A huge dildo with straps and a pair of womens drawers hanging out of the hollow end.

A couple of balaclavas (old school Provo style).. A bucket full of Dentistry syringes (used), a parcel of 'animal' videos with a few nappies in with them.

A large bag of coins covered in pencil shavings and cigarette ash.

40 euro (Bleachy.. Milton like whiff, disposed off at the local Spar with minimal contact)

Land Deeds, Wills, 'Legal stuff' (unshredded, open top skip, public road)..

I don't do this for any amount of time, I just take the effort to cross a road and have a look if I see a skip.

Been stopped a few times over the years, during the day and evening, if you show the Gardai what you're up to and you're not making a mess, they'll generally let you get on with things.

Make sure the skip is out on the road and open. Anywhere off a public area, or if you've fiddled with a covering etc.. and you'll probably get nicked.

I don't have a hang up about recycling something. There's more to that than just putting aside your empty bean tins.

Yes, I am a Pickaroonie..

vektarman

A perfect condition 1970's Raleigh chopper.

Run_to_da_hills

About 8 stone of lead flashing and two "george orwelli" 1950ies style B&W tv's,

StormWarrior

brianthebard wrote: »

i found 20 quid today on the ground.

A few years ago I found four twenty pound notes in the street! Went straight to the record store and bought lots of CDs!

Turd Ferguson

I found the entire cast of Pugwall in a skip once...

JohnCleary

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

I found the entire cast of Pugwall in a skip once...

Peter Unwin George Wall!!!

And Marmaloid!! What a ginger little b1tch

RedXIV

found a kitten once. kept it for about 2 days before it disappeared on me......now that i think about it, i meant to check the same skip again for him.

lil b*astard destroyed my slippers too....

thefinalstage

RedXIV wrote: »

found a kitten once. kept it for about 2 days before it disappeared on me......now that i think about it, i meant to check the same skip again for him.

lil b*astard destroyed my slippers too....

He was probably looking for him mammy.

ronbyrne2005

Bag of porn videos when i was about 15. Good stuff

Kold

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

Bag of porn videos when i was about 15. Good stuff

That's like... the jackpot for a 15 year old.

Max_Damage

Hubcaps for a Toyota Corolla.

A fax machine that didn't work

And a typewriter that also didn't work.

Silenceisbliss

a prosthetic leg on a night out.....oh jebus....what a night....

Steve_o

A perfect couch... 3 of us carried it home while pissed at 3am... and would ya believe it the cops spotted us... after a few minutes of arguing and us staking our claim to the couch, we were let on our way! Very comfortable it is too!

Tar.Aldarion

Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »

My housemate(LoveHammer) has found:
4 televisions
2 stereo/hifi systems
1 basketball
1 keyboard(musical)
4 computer keyboards
3 dvd players(one had a dvd in it, '300')
1 computer monitor
2 printers
1 printer/scanner/fax thing
1 standalone scanner
1 set of colouring pencils
1 paul mcgrath autobiography
2 bags of clothes, new, nicer than his own.
1 football
1 tent(he used it to go to a music festival)
My eletromagnetic theory course notes, I threw them out, he fished them out of the bin,
brought them home and went on about them being cool.
1 filthy carpet(filthy)
1 set of speakers.


Odd guy, good finds.

Now adding a set if golf clubs and a ps2 steering wheel still in box!

flanum

me.

LouOB

YORE MA

Turd Ferguson

LouOB wrote: »

YORE MA

Why did it take 4 pages for this? I think we're slipping.
I'm disappointed in all of you :mad:

galwaybabe

4 grass plants (roots and all) from a skip in london. I reckon they must have been put there in a panic. lovely smoke so it was

Frisbee

galwaybabe wrote: »

4 grass plants (roots and all) from a skip in london. I reckon they must have been put there in a panic. lovely smoke so it was

Motherload