littleal

I noticed this when we were in Auckland and thought it looked pretty weird. Whole suites of furniture just sat by the side of the road.

In the UK we have this lovely website called freecycle. You get to list your junk or needs and e-mail each other to arrange collection. A bit like trademe except everything has to be free. It's great for house-moving. Anything like that in NZ?

Alison

handi

Well that's decided then! When we come across, we're just going to fill the container to the roof with old batteries, light bulbs, tupperware boxes, and just about anything we can find.

Why throw it away in the UK, when you can flog it in NZ

Seriously though, I think this is great. A bit odd from a UK perspective, but when you consider the amount of perfectly good stuff that we throw on the tip, it makes perfect sense. If we tried this in the UK, there would be no point in rummaging through anyone's unwanted goods, the bags would be full of unwanted nappies and the like

Thanks for the tip (no pun intended)

I.

P2L

I bought Sharwoods the other day in my local New World

teambwr47

This end of litten road is looking far more like a junk yard than the beach end

I think ours is one of the only houses without a pile of junk outside so should be sweet for when you move in......

We'll have to get together soon so you can have a look around and check things out plus we can tell you about the pool, dire internet connection (got a trick as far as this goes), etc...

lardyl

thanks will have another look on the "oriental" aisle, LardyL (chief hunter and gatherer for the Lardies!! still!!)

garryhg

sounds ominous,whats wrong with the poolmind you ours is getting back to normal nowkids managed to get in on sunday,

teambwr47

Pool is good we had a guy around to service it and test the water and we have a report on it which we'll give you. Bought some extra chemicals for it as well.....

The pump may need a new filter soon apparently as the pressure is not brill...

Our landlord also needs to buy a few more tools for the pool maintainence as the net that was here, held to gether with package tape, is not exactly very good for cleaning the pool.....

I'm away to OZ in a few days (back late Monday) and we move next week, probably be out completely by next thursday all being well after which we want to have a day making sure the house is spotless for you guys. Maybe we can all get together for a coffee here next week some time?

Give you a call today or tomorrow.....

garryhg

yeh get together before you move....we got swimart to test the pool,they were fine and told us what we had to do....garry bought a new net and hoover for the pool so we will bring them with us...is denise getting a few days off for moving or will it be just you,because your more that welcome to drop the kids of here till you get everything moved...

dlmckay

Freecycle is in NZ on the Yahoo groups - I know of a Wellington and an Auckland one.

Spare a thought for the poor westies then... we only get one inorganic collection a year!