To not stop people raiding our skip?

[pepperyrocket]

We're having work done in our house at the moment so there's a skip outside with our old bathroom, rafters, bricks etc in.

Today a truck drove up and two men started loading the old bathroom stuff into it. They'd driven off before I could decide whether to run out and stop them.

It is stealing (and trespassing...) but surely it's just going to waste anyway?

Should I have gone out all guns blazing??

They have done you a favour as now you have more room in your skip for other rubbish but it would have been good manners to ask first.

No, just be glad it's not going to landfill and you can get more stuff in the skip.

YABU

You don't want it and they do...surely that's a good thing?

Skips cost a fortune to hire, so I was very pleased when we had skip raiders as we were able to fill it twice over.

Some people knocked and some didn't. I expect those who didn't just didn't want to bother us.

I was desperate for people to empty stuff out of the skip we hired, so that we could put more in.

If anyone wanted to take it, they were welcome to. I would have more of an issue with people throwing their rubbish in.

No, I'd be more annoyed if they were putting things in then taking them out.

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As long as people don't start putting stuff into it, I'd let them have their fun.

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Why would you want to stop them? You are paying probably an extortionate amount for a skip, and are putting in things which you no longer want. Why begrudge someone else taking the stuff, and freeing up more room in the skip for you.

Why does it matter? Good luck to them I say.

WHy would you want to stop them. I know it's illegal but surely they are doing you a favour ?

Why would you want to stop them?

No, YANBU. Let em take it, more room for you!(your rubbish that is, not actually you yourself...)

You do whatever you want to do really. If I had any plans to have been selling the stuff then I would've stopped them - but then I wouldn't been putting anything I intended to sell in a skip anyway. Personally I'd look at this as them giving you back more space to put other stuff in, thereby saving you money.

Great! More room in your skip.

Skip with joy I say (in both senses)

The people who have a right to be cross are the skip hire company, who make some of their money from selling on some of your rubbish and live in hope of you chucking out architectural antiques etc.

YANBU. I would have asked first but

YABU

Pay it forward

*YANBU

We always put the metal stuff and any electrical cables on top, to make it easier for them.

Wow - that's pretty unanimous then!

Lovely - thought I'd get it in the neck from DH when he gets home but my characteristic indecision has finally paid off.. :)

Yabu to go out all guns blazing, some one rubbish is another ones gold :)

I have ordered a new freezer - frost free - from Curry's. It was due to be delivered today and they offered to take away the older one (manual defrost). The older one still works well and they would be taking it to the tip. What a waste of a good freezer! Someone could well have a use for it.

I rearranged the delivery date to the day after tomorrow and began to ring charities to see if one would like to have the older one (it's been advertised for a while but with no takers). I succeeded with British Heart Foundation which will accept 'white goods' and it was collected this morning. I'm so pleased that it's going to have another home.

In effect, I was putting it into a skip and someone found a use for it. It was arranged properly, of course, but it's better than a useful item just going to landfill (or wherever they put this sort of thing).

As others have said, you will have more room in your skip for neighbours to use.

Far more annoying when other people put things in!