Best hard rubbish finds?Side of the road finds)

pickarooney · 17-09-2010 10:53AM

I've found loads of furniture, toys, electronics, clothes, shoes... the people who live around here just put everything they buy out onto the side of the street about six months after they buy it. It's kind of arseholey behaviour though, that they wouldn't take the time to give it directly to charity rather than letting others do it for them.

ejmaztec · 17-09-2010 10:58AM

We've no footpath around here, so have to resort to burglary to "find" stuff.

mikerowsopht · 17-09-2010 11:05AM

Nah, don't root through other people's rubbish outside their houses.
I have that, what's it called...... ah yes dignity and self respect, non-traveller etc....

17-09-2010 11:10AM

last thing I found was a pavement pizza!

Wossack · 17-09-2010 11:26AM

old_aussie wrote: »

Our local council has a once a year household rubbish collection.

You can put out on the footpath(yes we have wide footpaths in Oz) the equivalent of a 6 x 4 box trailer load of rubbish.

A couple of days ago I picked up a 3.00GHz pentium 4 PC tower, just needed a HDD and it works perfect.

Further down the road I picked up a swivel chair in good condition plus a desk lamp that only needed a light globe.

Didn't go 2 streets further and I found a clothes dryer and on inspection I saw the drive belt had come off the pulley, slipped belt back on pulley and it works fine and is in as new condition cosmetically.

Has anyone else found any good stuff on the side of the road?

hah, light globe

old_aussie · 17-09-2010 02:49PM

Wossack wrote: »

hah, light globe

And do you know how hard it is to find a working light globe by the side of the road?

LizT · 17-09-2010 02:58PM

storm2811 wrote: »

A friend of mine found a Tiffany bracelet once.
I never find anything good though.

:eek:Did she hand it in? I have one and I'd be devestated if I lost it, due to its sentimental value. I would hope that if I lost it someone who hand it into the guards or at least try to trace the owner.

I actually lost one of the charms off it once when I was at a formal and spent about a hour looking for it. I emailed the hotel in the hopes of finding it, though I knew it was very unlikely. I got an email the following week to say they had it - it was a massive relief because of the sentimental reasons.

Wossack · 17-09-2010 03:38PM

old_aussie wrote: »

And do you know how hard it is to find a working light globe by the side of the road?

hah, you said it again

DoneDL · 17-09-2010 04:44PM

The wife and kids, thanks, Seanie, Bertie, Biffo et al.

storm2811 · 17-09-2010 07:20PM

lizt wrote: »

:eek:Did she hand it in? I have one and I'd be devestated if I lost it, due to its sentimental value. I would hope that if I lost it someone who hand it into the guards or at least try to trace the owner.

I actually lost one of the charms off it once when I was at a formal and spent about a hour looking for it. I emailed the hotel in the hopes of finding it, though I knew it was very unlikely. I got an email the following week to say they had it - it was a massive relief because of the sentimental reasons.

Yeah, there was an engraving on it so she knew it meant a lot to someone like!

Best hard rubbish finds?Side of the road finds)

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