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Title: another skip find
Post by: bigwull on August 22, 2012, 05:07:56 AM

Here is another skip find...its a Piquet Tea/Coffee set..from the looks of it,it has never been used,it has very little age to it,but it was a nice find,

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: Rauville on August 22, 2012, 07:00:30 AM

Explain "Skip" to someone in the Upper Midwest please.

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: ghopper1924 on August 22, 2012, 07:02:25 AM

Another great find, Wull.

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: ACStanley on August 22, 2012, 10:27:03 AM

love it.

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: bigwull on August 22, 2012, 10:47:39 AM

Quote from: Rauville on August 22, 2012, 07:00:30 AM

Explain "Skip" to someone in the Upper Midwest please.

Upper Midwest???of where...UK?,..Canada?...????.definition of skip....large metal container,with open top,..open skip...but you also get one,s with door...closed skip...to dump rubbish in,

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: ghopper1924 on August 22, 2012, 11:00:31 AM

Upper midwestern U.S. = dumpster?

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: kidden6968 on August 22, 2012, 11:02:58 AM

Haha In upstate (anywhere north of NYC) NY, people go "alley hopping"  Amazing items that are thrown out in trash around here - just sitting out there in the alleys for grabs.  Crazy.

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: KC on August 22, 2012, 11:53:39 AM

In the South it is Dumpster Diving or Trash Day Diving.

This is skip....(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/7523/skip1.gif)

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: bbc-antiques.co.uk on August 22, 2012, 11:59:13 AM

Hi a friend of mine was convicted for taking a small item from a skip for stealing by finding BE AWARE always ask !!!  these turn up often and are still made , I have seen sets priced from £30 set to £120 !!!

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: kidden6968 on August 22, 2012, 12:02:01 PM

KC - also dumpster diving here too  LOL

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: bigwull on August 22, 2012, 12:09:57 PM

Quote from: bbc-antiques.co.uk on August 22, 2012, 11:59:13 AM

Hi a friend of mine was convicted for taking a small item from a skip for stealing by finding BE AWARE always ask !!!  these turn up often and are still made , I have seen sets priced from £30 set to £120 !!!

Yes I know,..but in this instance.like the tootsie bottle, i asked the person who was dumping it...before it went into the skip,....but i have in the past had a few near misses...like when i,d asked the council worker...if i could go into the skip to retrieve an item,he said ok.. i went in..then a black bag full of used cat litter,nearly hit me on the head...and an old lady exclaimed..Oh! i,m sorry I did,nt see you in there,

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: kidden6968 on August 22, 2012, 12:21:19 PM

Oh yuck - well just for the record - I don't dumpster dive  LOL  but have driven the alleys on the way to or from work and found all types of neat things.

I posted the told painted platter the other day that my friend had?  She found that in a box in the alley and was going to put it in the yard sale for $1 - just never know.

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: wendy177 on August 22, 2012, 12:22:23 PM

See Bigwull those damn CATS!!

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: bigwull on August 22, 2012, 12:30:50 PM

Quote from: wendy177 on August 22, 2012, 12:22:23 PM

See Bigwull those damn CATS!!

I said to myself..."whats the betting on Wendy picking up on that"....before the night is out... :D

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: Rauville on August 22, 2012, 12:38:15 PM

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
Oscar Wilde
 

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: wendy177 on August 22, 2012, 12:40:21 PM

bbc I had no idea you could get pinched for dumpster diving OMG thanks for the heads-up

Title: Re: another skip find
Post by: bigwull on August 22, 2012, 01:02:39 PM

Yes Wendy..but he,s talking about here in the UK...up here in Scotland guys like me are called scaffies!!!!....scavangers....t o everyone else.....now i look out for low flying cat sh*t....LOL!