Do you have skip hunters/pilferers where you live?

We call them dumpster divers. I don’t really consider it stealing since I didn’t want it anymore. I kinda like the fact that someone will be using my trash instead of it going to the landfill.

They probably took some stuff with the intention of building something perhaps. You know a lot of homeless people are extremely crafty. I knew a guy who made a working tattoo gun out of an electric razor 😳

Omg a plastic bucket with a hole in it!!!! Why didn’t you tell me you were throwing one out? I’m looking for one for my girlfriend for Christmas and don’t want to spend any money. I’ve been getting her to go in all the skips locally on her days off but she’s only found some bits of old plasterboard that I let her carry home.

When the military was pulling out of Germany a few years ago the camp I was on one of the shops throw out a big bag of perfume, so naturally I went thanks lol, I priced it all up there was 2500 euros worth of perfume a few bottles over 300 euros each lol

I am a skip diver, tis just recycling.

I once picked a limb and leaf grinder that had been set out, i ask if it was for sale, he said it was locked up so i loaded it up.
Had a piece of wood stuck in the impeller, started right up and i sold it for $350.00😁

No, I didn’t think skip diving was a real thing 😆😆

Taking stuff out is fine if it's left tidy. Adding stuff to it is not on.

That's good! Less to dispose! lol

That’s so random.. people must have traveled from Dublin to just do that🤣

O yes but normally ask first, found some interesting stuff , 6 foot garden gate, magnifying light that only needed a new fuse . last good find was rolls of used plastic grass , i turned that into paths down my allotment and the skip owner had more room for more rubbish

we call it dumpster diving, I know a lot of hardcore hippies so dumpster diving is common around me, hippies feel like they are fighting wastefulness and saving the world by doing so, although I personally am not ok with it. I just don't say anything. sometimes when they come by for lunch they offer to contribute some food 🤢and I say " don't worry, I have plenty of food, if we don't eat it now it will go bad" 🤭 (you see what I just did?)

Did anyone dump their stuff in it

Worse when people passing by put their rubbish in it.
I have had people ring the bell to ask if they could take some metal out of it.

They are Bin Liverpool divers

We got those back in Egypt I think in 2019 and they are used as huge trash bins 🤦‍♂️ I didn't know they're supposed to be for disposable items.

{@athenaarena]😆 or you get who fly tip and dump there rubbish in it .probably are though you are actually disposing of it you should have courtesy at least at first too ask before taking it

Not so much as used to, mostly used on building sites.
And yes , people do it all the time .

The coucil has one day every 3 months where people put out stuff that doesnt fit into wheelie bins, (furniture, old tools, bbqs, shelves, computers, tv's wood and metal pieces, lawn mowers - you get the idea.)

And its kinda a fun night to go out and take a walk😅 . People drive round in utes, and walk around in groups laughing and talking , fossicking around in the piles , taking what they want before the rubbish guys come the next day to take it to the tip.

In a way that’s standard here. I put out some end tables I was getting rid of, just to make them easier to collect. I was on my phone calling the haulers, when someone from an apartment down the street, with her husband, asked, "You don’t want those ?" They took them away, I canceled the call. No hauler’s fee. 😄

Yeah my childhood friend was into doing that. We never thought of it as stealing, cause it was just gonna get thrown out

No. The occasional pikey but not often.

Yep had a skip over the summer told one guy who was in it to get lost.

I mean yes I'm throwing it out but it is still my property on my land. Have the bloody decency to ask!

Dumpster divers

Damn. Do you live in Mogadishu?