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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: HappyHippy on August 28, 2009, 02:36:50 pm

Title: My great freebies !
Post by: HappyHippy on August 28, 2009, 02:36:50 pm

This week I've outdone myself in the blagging stakes !
A garden shed (just needs new felt on the roof ) and 5 UPVC double glazed windows!
I'm sooo proud of myself, been after a shed for ages (now I've got it I'm torn between using it for my gardening tools or converting it into a chicken shed  ???) and the windows in my house are very old, tatty wooden ones. The new ones are only very slightly smaller than the existing ones, so for a day of my joiner friend's time I'll be able to get all cosy and draught free in time for winter.
I reckon I've saved myself at least £1500 (which I didn't have in the first place lol!) and saved more landfill in the process. I'll be recycling my old windows into a glass house / cold frame arrangement too, so thats even better !

Title: Re: My great freebies !
Post by: kevkev57 on August 28, 2009, 02:42:15 pm

Thats great !  Garden sheds, so so useful.  well done !

Kevin

Title: Re: My great freebies !
Post by: Rosemary on August 28, 2009, 08:32:14 pm

Go for the chicken shed option. You can't scramble a spade.

Title: Re: My great freebies !
Post by: HappyHippy on August 28, 2009, 08:52:50 pm

 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: My great freebies !
Post by: sandy on August 28, 2009, 09:57:21 pm

I love getting free stuff, MUCH more of a kick than paying!!!! my house is full of freebees!!

Title: Re: My great freebies !
Post by: Rosemary on August 29, 2009, 08:33:16 pm

Try shoplifting!

Title: Re: My great freebies !
Post by: sandy on August 29, 2009, 09:22:47 pm

 ;D ;D far too  honest to do that ;D brought up with a conscious too!

Title: Re: My great freebies !
Post by: Farmer on August 29, 2009, 09:53:47 pm

ROSEMARY...I'm surprised at you! Incitement to crime is a punishable offence...what will the DEFRA researcher think when she reads this thread...shame on you!

Farmer  ::)
 :farmer:

Title: Re: My great freebies !
Post by: sandy on August 29, 2009, 10:20:05 pm

" x in my life I have accidently gone out of a shop with something under my arm and gone back with it to pay!!!! both were small, one a pair of tights and the other a roll of cling film...yes I don't even like taking paper or pens etc from any job although when I left to come to Scotland, one of my bosses gave me some things!!!! pens have all brocken now but still have the note book!!!!! see ::)how honest I am!!!!!