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ryivhnn in #hive-168869 • last year

I guess the title was somewhat a giveaway but the second I started reading I was like "yeh he's not buying a new one" and would have been thoroughly surprised if the post had continued with "and here's the new set" XD

We got our outdoors set off kerbside collection and I attacked it with oil or something I don't remember what, just that there was a lot of brushstrokes involved. I can't remember when that was but it's been years and it's still going strong XD

Though we haven't used it for a while, it ended up being extra storage for a while (I always tease J about that because he whines a lot about stuff piling up on both that table and the dining table inside but he's usually the culprit) and when eldest decided to clean it off so we could use it, it was cold and I'm a wuss.

last year in #hive-168869 by ryivhnn

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galenkp last year

Yep, had I bought a new one I'd probably not be talking about it here, or anywhere, just using it. With the DIY aspect, the rejuvenation of this setting I was more inclined to post about it.

So much gets left on the kerb, much of it is still serviceable too. I guess people change things over and the old one has to make way for the new. It's good that people take and make use of the old stuff though, like you and your ~~storage~~ outdoor setting. 😊

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ryivhnn last year

It's great around here, it's pretty much neighbourhood swapmeet XD Sometimes they'll even help you load up if you happen to be passing while they're putting it out (J had that with our outdoors set and a desk that was originally middle child's but is now eldest's as the desk remained behind when they swapped rooms as it's one of those serious hardcore art desks that feels like it weighs about a metric tonne or so and getting it into that one room was an effort). And one time when we put out some old partially rusted kids' bikes that we'd managed to forget about, I watched someone pick them up in this huge trailer that looked like it had a decent haul in it.

And people are so used to it that if they put out big ticket items that actually don't work most people will put a note on it saying that it's actually broken/doesn't work so that treasure hunters don't pick it up unless they think they can fix it or don't believe the note XD

And we would have been one of the areas that pushed back/openly and viciously mocked the media when they were trying to blather some crap about how doing that was "illegal" and trying to brand the people doing it as "nuisance pickers".

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galenkp last year

We get the kerbside collectors here too, I don't have a problem with it. I have put the occasional thing out there and it never lasts long. People live the metal stuff as they sell it for scrap if they don't use it themselves, strip any copper out and sell that too. I have a guy's number I call if I need that service and have spread it around to my friends...I'd rather see things collected and recycled by this guy (who earns a few bucks) than the council take it.

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