To sneak out in the dead of night and nab some abandoned plant pots?

[DeborahAnnabelToo]

It's a closed down (permanently, pre-COVID) care home nearby which is going to be redeveloped into some flats at some point. There are quite a few empty plant pots in the front drive area. I would imagine they'll be chucked in a skip when the developers start (they're not particularly fancy or ornate) and I would like to give them a home and make use of them. Would it be really skanky to nab them for my garden? Technically stealing, I know, but they've been abandoned for months.

[TheThingWithFeathers]

I would! I hate seeing good things go to waste.

[HorseChestnutTree]

Go for it. It is recycling so you are saving something from landfill.

[emilybrontescorsett]

Yes do it.

[OscarWildesCat]

Do it!

[TheWernethWife]

Go and get the poor abandoned pots. Paint them in nice bright colours and put lovely plants in them.

[TooTiredTodayOk]

Do it.

[OnlyJudyCanJudgeMe]

Absolutely

[81Byerley]

My favourite clothes airer was rescued from outside an empty house, and I took it early one evening. Go for it!

[happyjack12]

yep, do it!

[LudaMusser]

I took three out of a skip recently.

[Somanysocks]

It can never be unreasonable to stop things going to landfill, or to save oneself money.

[ViciousJackdaw]

Yes, definitely get them, it would be such a waste otherwise.

It would be very skanky indeed if perfectly serviceable items were binned. I hope they bring you years of enjoyment.

[icansmellburningleaves]

If you have to sneak around in the middle of the night you’ve probably answered your own question!

[Merigoround]

I rescue all sorts from landfill. Weve had a lovely lloyd loom chair off a skip, a nice bedroom sized cabinet from the street where it was waiting for the large items skip lorry and a whole staircase of spindles that were thrown out by the new owners of a neighbouring house who objected to the previous owners really bad DIY attempts.

I would say dont go in the dead of night . Go in the daytime on a walk and march straight in and pop the pots into the box you brought for the purpose. You would be very unlucky for anyone to even notice you r presence.

[Goingalittlecrazy]

GO GO GO.

The amount of stuff going to landfill at the moment is making me want to cry. I hate waste and with chairty shops being closed so much is being throw to landfil! Every little save helps!

[BramwellBrown]

They were probably left there in the hope someone would take them rather than chucking then in the bin anyway, go help yourself.

[Ghostlyglow]

Do it. One thing I like that's happening in lockdown, and it's hard to find anything to like obviously, is people leaving stuff out with help yourself signs on, giving stuff away.

[Viviennemary]

It's theft. But don't let that stop you.

[Samtsirch]

Yes do it, they’ll probably only get vandalised or thrown out and it’s not as though there’s anyone around who you can ask permission from.
I am always doing things like this, I can’t bear to see things just wasted.
The worst that can happen is someone asks for them back, then you just apologise and explain you thought they’d been abandoned.

[Ghostlyglow]

The fun police have arrived

[ListeningQuietly]

Haskins Garden Centres have a skip outside in which people can dump their pots
DH and have a merry time collecting what we need from it

Reduce
re use
recycle

as we said in the 70s

[Snagscardies]

It's a Climate Change Emergency. We have to Dave the planet and reduce, reuse, recycle. You are doing the world a service.

[Ghostlyglow]

Yes let's all Dave it @Snagscardies

[Samtsirch]

Dave the planet now !! 😆