Stig of the Dump, a.k.a. Amos E Wolfe
Well, as they were kind enough to use my suggestion I should really get an answer in.

A local pub was closing down for refurbishments - me and some mates were in there drinking beer on the last day. We helped the landlady move some full barrels out of the cellar ready to move to another pub so I was allowed to "help myself" to any surplus bits.

I had a small selection. The A-frame blackboard from outside the pub (all metal, £300 in the catalogue), several small sundry items, plus all the curtains and curtain poles from the entire pub.

I have often been called "Stig of the Dump" from my habit of collecting stuff that other people have thrown away. Recently I "rescued" a load of wood out of a skip. The lads at work laughed as I filled my car. Tomorrow I'm doing a project that requires a load of wood. Who's laughing now?

The chair I'm sitting on now as a type this came out of the same skip. It's a proper office one that goes up and down and everything. £49 from Office World or £FREE from Skips R Us.

My duplex laser printer (HP Laserjet 2300d) which should cost about £500 new came from a skip at one of my old jobs. I also got a dishwasher, 7 empty 45 gallon drums, and nearly 1 litre of "Christmas" fragrance oil which would usually sell in bottles of about 7 millilitres.

I do volunteer work for a local charity, and we recently built a workshop for next to nothing, using mostly donated materials. Old pallet racking welded together for the framework, old double glazed windows from the local tip, sides made of wood we got free from one bloke's work.

The work bench inside is an old kitchen worktop. One guy's missus would have thrown it out but we managed to scrounge it - along with a drill someone else had in their shed.

I even got a free lunch the other day, an evening get-together in the pub the night before had a buffet laid on. A few words with the landlady and I got the leftovers in cling film for the next day.

Hopefully I've saved some money because I just spent £200 on eBay on a machine for folding leaflets.
( Amos E Wolfe makes vinyl signs and things like that, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 0:25, 4 replies)

HA
Im quite impressed by your stingy ways.. Surprisingly
(i should have joined myspace, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 1:09, closed)

hahaha...
today I saved a tenner by not having the printer fold my leaflets... tomorrow I shall be crafting!
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 2:30, closed)

Are you ...
actually a Womble?
(Que?, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 4:46, closed)

An HP 2300d?
That's a good printer, that is. Not much to go wrong.

I like (most) HP printers.

/Sad printer blog
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:31, closed)