Bin raid olympics

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miss annie · September 2011

We'll come tonight or in the morning - earlyish. Will text.

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N4mality · September 2011

What's the chances she might've participated in the recent riots?

EmilyE · October 2011

We just put out a fully functional 27" TV if anyone's interested. Works fine but we've upgraded.

Corner of Victoria Road and Stapleton Hall Road, by the church.

miss annie · October 2011

We put a huge old telly out in the week and was gone within fifteen minutes! We have downgraded to a smaller one. Have decided that I hate big tellys!

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Kaz · October 2011

Doesn't the mind shop take curtains Misscara?

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scottish_strouder · October 2011

Brown Ikea armchair on Marriott Road up for grabs, anyone?

applehead · November 2011

Lots of things being put out on Moray Road just near Image dry cleaners - lots of interesting looking chairs!!

miss annie · November 2011

This is Detritus I just have to say I have never seen Miss Annie move as fast as she did in the last 5 mins. Free stuff on bin raid Olympics, it was a small blur to my eyes as she almost ran into the bedroom to get dressed.

miss annie · November 2011

Thank you for the lovely vintage chairs and other bits. Much appreciated!

Papa · November 2011

Left out our old wood and glass back door the other day, no real redeeming features, weighed a ton, gone in hours.

Would have been interested in those chairs.

krappyrubsnif · November 2011

Put out a dismantled but perfectly good table the other day. The legs disappeared within hours, but not the top - I presume a passing Steptoe was after the metal content but not the wood. This was not quite what I'd intended.

Donna · November 2011

I put out an old shaving mirror that was rusty on one side out and it went in 24 hours.

vickym · November 2011

Over the years, we've had knackered old dryer, kids' toys, old TV and old fridge (enormous, it was) taken by people on the look-out for stuff. The best was when we'd put a rusty old BBQ right behind our hedge in the front garden only to find someone walking off with it as I approached our house. It's great this stuff gets recycled (and means we don't have to shlep to the dump).
Still, it's not great that the telephone exchange box covers get nicked, too. I reported the one that's been missing for months on UTP a while back and was told that even when they replace them they get nicked within 24 hours "by the gypsies".

krappyrubsnif · November 2011

I am in possession of a very severely knackered piece of large furniture that is so badly broken it will probably have to be taken away by the council. Does anyone know when the next free collection of bulky items is?

ADGS · November 2011

If the covers always get nicked within 24 hours, surely a surveillance operation would be a simple endeavour?

Mirandola · January 2012

Nice dark wood arts and craftsy sideboardy type thingy on Birnam road.

kreuzkav · January 2012

If you're in Haringy it's the day after your normal rubbish collection. However, you have to ring them and let them know what you want taken away. They take most furniture but check <a href="http://www.haringey.gov.uk/bulkyitems.htm">http://www.haringey.gov.uk/bulkyitems.htm</a> ;

boxrunner · January 2012

We had a black bin nicked, not from the street but from inside our front garden. They removed the rubbish bags that were in the bin, but left them on the floor instead of putting them in teh (empty) other bin. Why they didn't just nick the other bin I'll never know. Don't know if I was more annoyed about the theft, or the fact they didn't put our rubbish in the other bin. Islington do a good free bulky waste collection service (I think they'll come by up to 5 times in 12 months). The stuff Ive put out overnight for the Council has never been pinched first though...I guess our wood was just too grotty.

ADGS · December 2012

On Charteris Road for the past three days, some plastic plates have been sat forlornly collecting rainwater. Not something I'd use myself, but they seem to be in good nick, and I'm amazed that none of the area's enterprising/compulsively acquisitive folk have given them a new home.

scottish_strouder · September 2013

we've just dismantled our double bed, and brown sofa. They're just outside of our flat on Marriott Road. Both in perfect (almost) working order. Any takers?

ADGS · September 2013

Saw some old tech outside a Stapleton Hall Road house last night, along with a bottle of ouzo - surely one of fairly few boozes that would be so thoroughly rejected.

Papa · July 2014

In the spirit of reviving great threads of the past. I left a Space Hopper in a box and a pair of homemade wooden stilts that had been clogging up my shed out the front on Saturday afternoon - gone within 30 minutes. Last week, I left two slightly warped mountain bike tyres out - gone within the hour. I also came back the other day with a small pot of wood stain I had borrowed from my mum's as I needed some to use. As I was unloading car I left it on the front wall. Forgot it, remembered five minutes later, walked back outside and sure as, it was gone.

graeme · July 2014

I just came home early from work to find an elderly lady with a pram going through my bins in my front garden. She was looking for "metal, metal". This is what Brown and Osborne have done to some pensioners!!

Ali · July 2014

Bet you they go for tinned food at the foodbank

Sutent · July 2014

@Ali that is not funny. Have you been to a foodbank?

miss annie · May 2018

I am resurrecting this thread to say thank you to the person on Moray Rd who left a beautiful, almost immaculate 1960s (I think) snakeskin suitcase out on the street this morning for me to find. Best bin raid for a while.

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