Trash Treasure

Finding a Use of Other People's Junk

One of the things about living in a council estate is that some of my dear neighbours expect the council to look after everything. Including getting rid of the bulky junk that often you would have to take for the tip.

I was walking past the bin area earlier when I saw a load of trashed bedroom wardrobes, with the ubiquitous concealed hinges attached to the parts. Well, those hinges are about £2-3 a set, at least these days and I will need a quite a few. So I went up to the flat and got a screwdriver and a bag and spent 20 mins taking off the hinges.

Clearly this was from a child's bedroom and some of the markings on the wardrobe made me chuckle.

I wonder what Amir and Layth did wrong?

Layth now fallen out with Amir 😄

A quick wash in soapy water and they are as good as new. As a bonus there were the rails for Ikea sliding baskets, which are quite useful. Looking on the Ikea website, annoyingly, when you purchase the sliding rail, it comes with a plastic part you need to attach to the basket part, which wasn't there (the baskets were not present and they would be still attached to the basket). However, you can order items like that free of charge from Ikea and so I did and a few days later I got a packet from Slovakia with the necessary parts. So I just need to buy the baskets nearer the time now.

A few days later, on a street leading to the estate another abandoned wardrobe. So again I was back with a screwdriver and bag. Being on a thoroughfare I got a few funny looks, but I reminded myself I would never see any of these people again and carried on. Not so great quality these ones, but hey, they will work on a 'minor' cupboard. Again another quick wash and as good as new.

Christian will no doubt be horrified and use it as prove that this boat is going to be 'bodged' but from my POV, it saves money and saves something going to incineration/landfill. A win all round.