I do indeed fancy a beer
and may well have one at lunchtime. I will be invoicing you later Mr/Ms Bracket.

As for Marx - I'm a bit of a Harpo-ist as far as that goes. I think we should call for an end to Growth. Aim for sustainability, cut down consumerism and consumption. A company's share price can fall if they announce £1.5bn in profit, if that is 3% down on last year - madness!

We all want a little more each year, but we should be rewarded for re-using stuff - I want people at the Council dumps fining people for chucking out perfectly good stuff.

[Rant over...for now]

More camaraderie, less dogma! And bring back flat caps. Flat caps FTW!!
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 11:03, 2 replies)

Non-Rubbish...
We took a load of bags of green waste to the tip the other day (a branch from the neighbours willow had landed across our apple tree and hen house, so we cut it up, retained the large pieces to use for the fire once they dry out).
We used the bags from the bark chippings we have in our duck run to carry them in, and then emptied them out at the tip so we could reuse them, probably for compost.

Whilst we were there we saw:
An open back truck arrive with 3 ikea wardrobes on. There appeared to be nothing wrong with them.
White van man with a 3 piece suite.
A car with about 4 bin bags full of video's.

FFS have none of these people heard of charity shops?

Or what about freecycle.org ? Still in working order but you're replacing it? Advertise it on freecycle, and keep an eye open for things YOU want too.
The vast majority of our video's went to a special needs school, both for keeping and reselling.
Old clothes and material went to a local school for dress up and play.

Or even go do a bloody boot sale... You'll have a few hours in the fresh air, maybe get some money in your pocket, and other people will get what they think is a bargain.

Sorry Che, carried your rave on...
(paof2 Nude might not be rude, but rude could be nude..., Fri 10 Oct 2008, 14:44, closed)

We did a car-boot just the other week
Made around £130 flogging all our CDs, some old plates, and sundry other stuff and junk. Or rather I did, Mrs G. sat in the front listening to the Archers omnibus and Desert Island Discs!

As luck would have it, that very same afternoon the car wouldn't start, called the AA - battery fucked (car's done over 200k miles), had to get new one from Halfords - £80 and I knackered myself carrying the bastard home.

Still quids in though and got the battery for 'nothing'.

I hate those idiots that chuck away perfectly good stuff when, as you say, you could give it to a charity shop for the same price! I guess they don't know what a charity shop is...

Grrrrr
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 15:48, closed)

car boots can be great
i did one last year, got rid of a load of stuff i had no further use for and came home richer by £290
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 18:24, closed)

Bring back
cat flaps?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 12 Oct 2008, 19:27, closed)