AIBU or is DP??

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DP says i was wrong and the neighbours will think i am barking!

I'll tell you what is barking - throwing perfectly good, practically new crockery into the skip, thats what! So i rescued some really nice mugs - we need new mugs. There was other stuff too but they had dumped a sofa on top of it so i couldnt get to it without shifting things around.

My neighbour did walk past but didn't say anything, although shes the type to talk one day and not the next :)

YANBU
Have him help you shift that sofa

You're not wrong, you're just a Womble. Nowt wrong with that.

YANBU.

YANBU providing the neighbours doesn't mind you taking things out of their skip - it is still classed a stealing legally, so they COULD prosecute. I doubt that they would, but be careful.

YANBU at all, although Kirstie would say you should've asked first .

I hate the idea of people chucking stuff in a skip that is still perfectly useable, why don't folk freecycle or charity shop it rather than binning it?

I'm guilty of throwing stuff out that could or should be freecycled. It's laziness because local charity stops are on busy road with no parking, I can't be arsed holding onto stuff and fending off tons of emails until someone turns up to relieve me of my goods and as someone who struggles to declutter when I decide it's time to chuck something, it had to be done there and then!

I am currently tripping over bags of baby clothes that I should have taken to the charity shop weeks ago!

YANBU.

But note what Justforlaughs said ... ie be careful taking stuff out of someone else's skip, or from in front of their house, cos I was once warned by patrolling police that it was techincally theft to take (clearly abandoned, & perfectly good) stuff which was dumped on a pavement by a wheelie bin, after a house of students had just moved out.

Best option (for you) would have been to ask neighbours (nicely) if you could take some things out of their skip? I have done this (once) and been told ... "please help yourself".

Re-using an (unwanted) item is vastly superior to recycling it or sending to landfill, so, if anyone criticises, please tell them that you are an eco-warrior!

Remember though, I'm a womble I can feel a namechange coming on!

Yanbu. Best to ask first though really, just to be polite, but I'm sure nobody would mind.

ILetHim - they're not boys aged 1+ clothes are they I could gladly relieve you of them!

I'm with your DH I'm sorry. It's not your stuff to help yourself to, you should have asked if you really wanted it. A bit weird, would you help yourself to their bin??

My mum is known to DD as Grandma Womble because of her policy of, er, proactive recycling.

My mum is known to DD as Grandma Womble because of her policy of, er, proactive recycling.

"Would you help yourself to thier bin?" Of course if they were throwing away perfectly good stuff:) I might have another rummage later

YANBU especially if she saw you doing it and didn't tell you to piss off.

I had another rummage - i managed to get the rest of the crockery set - so thts a full dinner set then, four plates, pasta bowls, four mugs, naice wine glass and two big christmas style plates - I am very chuffed, and desperate to find out what else is in there but i can't see without shifting things about and that would be rude!

The house was/is a rental and i wonder if the landlords/new owners are doing the place up after tennants - stuff was brand new though and all matching

lol nah is knackered mary ;-) There is a guy around the corner who is always putting sofas out for free - i'll let you now!!