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How satisfying is a run to the tip
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"It's great, generally because the stuff has been sitting either at my back door, or in the car for weeks before I get around to it!
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My lawyer has pointed out to me that I should probably say months, rather than weeks... |
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over a year ago
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No I find it very annoying! I went to the tip in my van and they turned me away because no vans were allowed so I went back home and loaded a trailer and towed it in with a car and then they said I needed to apply for a licence before I could drive through the gates which could take 3 weeks and I'd already been waiting ages to go there. So okay I said I will leave the trailer across the road and carry it in, but no that wasn't allowed either 
So I went back home and stuffed so much as I could in the car and I managed to get in after having to go back home again for ID! but they would only take some of it and they said I had to make an appointment to take the wood and other stuff to two other places and that would have to be appointments as well.
Fuck it I ended fly tipping it. Its no wonder people do it. |
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over a year ago
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"I've literally never been to a tip.
What so satisfying about it? Think I'd get depressed seeing the the effects of throwaway consumer culture. "
All the junk that just hangs around weighing you down you get to fling it into a big skip and walk away back to a calm clean space. Only proper junk though anything remotely useable gets charity shopped etc. I have to fling my stuff in almost eyes closed sometimes to stop me diving in after treasure.  |
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It's very satisfying for you to go to the tip OP, especially if it's with some of my stuff 
Definitely, clearing things away and disposal of them, completely away from me is revitalising. Finishing a fairly big job is relieving and there are multiple sources of pleasure from it - seeing it finished, the quality of the job, the obliteration of it from an unfinished state to done, has lots of relief. I enjoy others' labour to, a sub, employee or friend.
With the tip, getting the old away also opens new possibilities that are exciting. Just knowing a new project can begin, or that empty space is more relaxing and freeing than clutter, it's all great.
Knowing that things are going to be transformed is a thrill. OK, some just sees landfill  but not all. |
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Absolutely not. Since covid, a trip to the tip has to booked in advance on the phone or local council website. You get a time slot. You have to be on-time and sometimes, they just shut without any explanation even though you have a time slot. It's shit show. |
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