Does anyone actualy do this?

[Garden Manager]

... go around pubs to get beer slops for slug traps, to greengrocers/supermarkets for veg scraps/paper for composting etc ???

Saw this being done on 'THE ALLOTMENT' tv programe and wondered if anyone here actualy did it.

[Garden Manager]

[eileen]

Nah - not me - got plenty of that kinda thing here at home without going out to collect more!!!


Eileen.

[Chaz Hunter]

I've done a lot of scrounging in my time, the local chippy here has the mayonnaise delivered in 2 gallon buckets (with lids ;)) I've had several of these for 10p each, also the bakers for old bread trays,carpet shops and timber yards for offcuts, the list goes on. There's an old saying where I come from, "If you don't ask, you don't get" theres nothing to be ashamed of for asking, after all most of these things would end up in a skip or on a bonfire.

[busy_lizzie]

We are the same Chaz.  We have had allsorts, quite legally that people were throwing out, and it is amazing what people do throw out.  My husband has just made a fantastic table from honey coloured oak planks that someone threw in a skip about a month ago. We have a similar saying up here in the N.E.  "Shy bairns get nowt"!  ;D busy_lizzie

[Chaz Hunter]

About 6 years back a row of weavers cottages were being demolished, I slipped the demolition gang £20 and they let me take what I wanted, I made all the doors in my house from the floorboards and fitted them with T-hinges and Suffolk latches; would have cost hundreds to buy doors like that, also made a patio from reclaimed bricks/tiles/cobbles etc, copied the one that Geoff Hamilton did a few years back! I've known people to pay up to a hundred pounds for those fancy tall chimney pots, I've had them for a fiver ;)