I am an official Scrounger and proud

[dexterdoglancashire]

Shame about the car MB! I'm very sad, when I'm driving around, keeping one eye on the road and the other for anything left lying around that I can use on the lottie! DDL

[madderbat]

Shame about the car MB! I'm very sad, when I'm driving around, keeping one eye on the road and the other for anything left lying around that I can use on the lottie! DDL

Thanks DDL. We use it so little these days it seems as though I might as well put money in an envelope and leave it outside the door as keep paying to have the car parked out there. It will take a bit of getting used to though as I've been driving since 1980 and have always had a car. Fortunately I have two legs and live near the train station (& Mr MB comes into his bus pass in a couple of years!!)
It is the greener option and will be less stress, so it does make sense, but still a bit scary and a loss as I've had the car since new, it still runs fine. Never mind. Onwards and upwards as they say..

[theothermarg]

I prefer the word wombler to scrounger or am i showing my age. well i,v been recycling for the last 40 years long before it was fashionable
( I had cellelite when it was just fat as well)

[dexterdoglancashire]

I prefer the word wombler to scrounger or am i showing my age. well i,v been recycling for the last 40 years long before it was fashionable
( I had cellelite when it was just fat as well)

Hello TOM and welcome to the Vine! As you can see we are all very friendly and helpful. Feel free to post any questions or queries you may have - (myself apart because I'm still learning!) the other grapes have a wealth of knowledge on all things fruit and veg growing! If you haven't already done so, do get a copy of Grow Your Own - lots of useful info in there which is easily understandable (which I need!). Looking forward to reading your posts and finding out what you are growing. DDL

[Nicos]

We seem to have excelled in scrounging logs this weekend...crazy how popular you become when people realise you have a chainsaw!!

[dexterdoglancashire]

What a good idea Nicos! windy weather+fallen down trees=Nicos+chainsaw! Good enterprise methinks. DDL

[rustylady]

As for scrounging, I prefer to call it recycling. After all, if you're going to make use of it, it saves it going to landfill. What did they use to say, one man's rubbish is another's treasure!

Have you all tried your local freecycle website? You can get rid of or obtain all sorts of useful things. No charge - bit like the old bartering system

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi RL - yes, I finally got my thick head around the freecycle thingy ont' net. Gave a chap some of my OHs golf clubs last weekend (he did know about it! ) and got some fab gardening books from a lady a couple of weeks ago. A good idea! DDL

[madderbat]

I scrounged a cold frame today (see What I did today) - well it was two window frames and some ktichen worktop, but it will be a cold frame very soon and I'm ever so chuffed.

[Dobby]

I's suprizing what you can fit in a small car if you wont (or Need)
you know the plastic at Tesco where you are suposed to put your trolly back
managed to get two lots in tow trips into a new panda ( no it did not hert the Panda
Also i keep an eye out for anything that might be ov use the manager just says yea tack it and laughs he must think im mad and hed be right (Out for Nout)

[bubblewrap]

I pick up the rubber bands that the postie drops I am sure I'll find a use!

[madderbat]

I's suprizing what you can fit in a small car

You'd be surprised. My little peugeot 1.1 3 door has carried 3 bags of manure at a time; When I moved house it brought surprising amoyunts of stuffr, but the best one was when we got a big square coffee table out of the paper, and were offered a blanket box - couldnt refuse and fitted them both in!

[dexterdoglancashire]

I used to have a Fiat 126 a few years ago - I kept rabbits and guinea pigs - managed to fit in two full sized bales of straw - that took some doing I can tell you! LOL DDL

[Don Vincenzo]

Yes!!!
I am a scrounger too!! actually I define myself a veteran!! London is a paradise for scroungers and you have not idea what people dispose off and quite happily they are grateful if you take it away. My daughter asked for a log to burn on the 21st december...( winter solstice ). She wasn't impressed when I came back with a tree trunk which i have been eying for a while for the purpose to grow oysters mushrooms. My wife thinks quite rightly that I am odd and eccentric, but in that huge tree trunk I could see the beauty of nature, the musky smell released by the log in the car ( almost a van ) was paradise, i could visualise my oyster mushrooms growing onto it plus the beauty to have a huge log between my plants. I did cut some lateral small branches from it for the 21st december bonfire and after thanking the nature Gods.. why waste it..barbeque time and enough wood to last for a year without buying any coal. There are two words which I am very familiar FREE and NEARLY FREE...I also consider buy one get one free or Reduced.
Don Vincenzo ( The veteran scrounger )

[Digger-07]

When it comes to recycling what about the skip outside the lotties that was full of stuff (real junk by the look of it all) one evening and by the next lunchtime almost empty. Noone saw it go but the committee are furious having paid for a skip and now got nothing to put in it. True Yorkshire thrift coming to the fore.