What do you do with old 'rubbish'?

[Stravaig]

I have two or three old frying pans. I don't need or want them any more. I don't want t o put them in the bin, ie landfill. And the snobby charity shops won't have them. (I've not even asked.) I remember when I was a skint student I'd have jumped at the chance of kit like this.

What should I do with them?

[Westi]

What about offering them to the shelters providing lunches for the homeless?

[Stravaig]

Thanks, Westi

That's a great idea. They're still useable. But I don't need them.

Thanks to government stupidity and lack of professionalism, we had more than a dozen moving home experiences and a lot of places were far from suitable. One place didn't even have beds! Now I've ended up with enough stuff to furnish and kit out more than one house. I'm going to have a sale of household goods. Gotta cope with the quagmire of boxes first.

[retropants]

there's also a group called 'trash nothing' used to be called 'freecycle' They are grouped locally, and you list your items for people to claim, with photos is best. They then have to come and pick them up.

[peter]

I have two or three old frying pans. I don't need or want them any more. I don't want t o put them in the bin, ie landfill. And the snobby charity shops won't have them. (I've not even asked.) I remember when I was a skint student I'd have jumped at the chance of kit like this.

What should I do with them?

Local metal recycling business, even get a few pennies in return!

[Stravaig]

I didn't even know there was such a thing as a local metal recycling business. Well, I suppose I might have thought about it in terms of BIG business. Are we talking about the likes of Steptoe and Son? It makes me wonder how many people just put stuff in the bin because they don't know what else to do with it. Scary.

And meanwhile I have just excavated another two frying pans. I think I must have about twenty by now, but it was quite tough being moved from pillar to post and our belongings not keeping pace with us. Also, it didn't help that the British Embassy staff in Kyiv looted our home and told lies about what had happened.- no record was kept and we'd no idea what might be retrieved and returned to us. Disclaimer - different people have different preceptions. That's mine and I'm as entitled as anyone else to my perception. This is embassy policy - different people have different perceptions.

Husband, at my request, each morning puts two boxes on the living room settee for me to unpack. Sometimes it's like Christmas. Ooh, I forgot we had that and it's a wonderful surprise. Other times it's oh no, not another frying pan.

[Myrkk]

We have an old telephone box in our village that we put anything that needs a new home into and post on our facebook group. That way people can get things they need without having to arrange meet ups.
You do have to go pick it up two days later if it’s not gone though as the local “yuff” thought it funny to take stuff and pop it in fields, set it on fire.

[Stravaig]

The telephone box sounds like a great idea!

Not so keen on those tw@ts who destroy stuff that others would be grateful for. Posh boys? Ex-Etonians perhaps? How the other half lives, eh?