Hard Rubbish Collection

[Stuart]

Ours is happening over the next week or so, so was making a mountain of crap on the nature strip yesterday.

Within 30 minutes, the vultures had moved in, and this morning when I went to get the paper from the driveway, saw someone pick up an entire box of stuff and load it into his stationwagon. (And the stuff that I throw away really is crap - if it was any good, it would have been sold on eBay!)

Sometimes I find myself dumbstruck by a scene - this morning was one of them

[ptc]

Vultures!

[Stuart]

You know - picking over the dead carcass and all...

[bennylaird]

Just like those early arrivals when you have a garage sale. Advertise a 9am start and they are their at sparrows to get the best stuff for bugr all. Just refuse to talk to them these days except to come back at 9.

[Wongo]

Could be a newby who was looking for a tablesaw.

[Iain]

Our council have announced that hard rubbish is all a thing of the past, now we get 4 'free' tip vouchers, one ticket = one boot full, might go and get a P76 just to get my monies worth

[Stuart]

Could be a newby who was looking for a tablesaw.

[AlexS]

You blokes will never believe where I found a new tablesaw...

[lesmeyer]

Could be a newby who was looking for a tablesaw.

You mean a WC2000. Stu has 2 of em.
Les

[sea dragon]

You blokes will never believe where I found a new tablesaw...

Did it have any cans of orange paint nearby?

[johnc]

Hard rubbish day is just community recycling day in disguise, after all it is doing land fill sites a favour so who are we to complain. By the way any table saws going in the bin can be sent my way.

John

[Doughboy]

Canberra has what they call

Second Hand Sunday.

Same old tho .... put up a sign designating the area that the materials will be in and they can go at it all they want.

I did go pretty full on there for a few years with a neighbour. Two Cars, planned routes and a 'shopping list of what each other wants. The first couple of years we got three great pushbikes all in top condition, a couple of Hills swing sets, about 1000 cleaned canberra red bricks, a dvd/video combo panasonic, a wallaby jack, a couple of 9 foot tressel (?) ladders and a heap of high tensile nuts and bolts, Two three foot fluro lights and a baby seat for on a pushbike. The last year we did go out it had slipped to being put out rubbish and hope someone takes it away so now it just is not worth it.

Pete

[Stuart]

I thought community recycling was called eBay (well that's what I use it for!)

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I love Hard Garbage days here.

As dusk falls, we sit out on the front Verandah with refreshments and watch the lounge suites and old wardrobes scutlling up and down the highway. The funny part is that as often as not the same lounge suites and old wardrobes had scuttled in the opposite direction the previous HG day.

I have to admit that on the odd occasion rickety old solid timber dining tables & Meranti bed-heads have been seen wending their way into my shed... not that any have been seen leaving again, mind! Well... not in the same form, anyway.

[Bleedin Thumb]

I get a great deal of pleasure watching those wierd little blokes with their tired white vans digging through my rubbish and that of my neighbours....but then again
I too confess to driving a bit slower than normal around the suburb at those times of the year. Hey, I can't scavenge at the tip anymore so I have to fulfill my hunter-gatherer instincts when I can.