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ButteryHOLsomeness



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 05 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i've had things like that happen to me most of my life judy so i know exactly what you're on about

when we lived on skye we were forever bringing items home (including the lumps of coal you found scattered about every so often) we kept them in the shed until needed. many a time a friend mentioned a need of something and quite a few times we'd have a look in the shed and lo and behold there it was, usually had for free due to our walks etc. and of course it went the other way around as well...

skye wasn't an easy place to live financially speaking as it's hard to get regular work there BUT once you get accepted into a community and make friends there you'll find you don't need as much money as the goodwill going about helps you make up the difference

Lloyd



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 05 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I find this too, I give a fresh loaf each week to neighbours, and they give 12 duck eggs a week to me. A lad kepps me in veg seedlings, so I let him plant his fruit canes in my wood. And so on.....

mochyn



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 05 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Madman wrote:
I find this too, I give a fresh loaf each week to neighbours, and they give 12 duck eggs a week to me.


And very good eggs they are too!

Lloyd



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 05 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 05 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I am sure you have all heard of
www.freecycle.org
but that gives you the same warm fuzzy feeling!

Lozzie



Joined: 25 May 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 05 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Without wanting to sound too airy-fairy; I think this whole "giving and receiving" thing is an ancient human ethical impulse that goes back right to the very heart of civilisation.

Without the basic impulse to cooperate and help each other out, the human race would have fallen at the first hurdle. Cooperation is a vital survival skill! And yes, it makes you FEEL GOOD. Things that enable you to survive like eating food, having sex and taking exercise - they all make you feel good too.

Do you think that the act of cooperation releases endorphins in the brain like those other activities do? Is that what gives you the feel-good factor?

Oh dear. I seem to have failed in my endeavour not to sound too airy-fairy

tawny owl



Joined: 29 Apr 2005
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Location: Hampshire
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 05 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lozzie wrote:
Do you think that the act of cooperation releases endorphins in the brain like those other activities do? Is that what gives you the feel-good factor?


I'm sure it does. Very young babies take their milk purely because they're hungry - it's simply survival instinct. However, by the time they're about 3 months old, they'll take extra milk if encouraged by the carer smiling and cooing at them; it makes them feel good, so they'll cooperate. Similarly, the instinct for toddlers to grab things and refuse to share can be overcome by lots of praise when they do share - getting the carer's attention is worth more than the thing they've grabbed, which is the whole basis of all these 'Little Angels' and such-like programmes.

Lloyd



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 05 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mochyn wrote:
Woodsman wrote:
I find this too, I give a fresh loaf each week to neighbours, and they give 12 duck eggs a week to me.


And very good eggs they are too!


Need any more?

2steps



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I find all sorts of great things. Sometimes it makes me wish I had a car to get it home skips are good too, the amount of perfectly good stuff people just chuck out

jema
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

2steps wrote:
I find all sorts of great things. Sometimes it makes me wish I had a car to get it home skips are good too, the amount of perfectly good stuff people just chuck out


My last street find, was a hovermower from which I was able to get a replacement blade for mine. Convenient as I was having trouble identifying the right blades.

2steps



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 05 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

excellent last year we really wanted one of those child seats you put on bikes but couldn't really afford one. Then we found one in a skip al lI needed to buy was the bracket that attactes it

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 05 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

And today's find is: a pair of long-handled shears. There I was, at the dump, old chap about to chuck in some codswallop when I spotted them on to[ of the heap. Fished them out, took them home and they're perfectly good! Why do people do it?

Lloyd



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 05 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

No idea, But not complaining!

hermil



Joined: 04 Sep 2005
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Location: Manchester
PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 05 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I agree with the above, we make a lot of home-made preserves and on the allotment this year people have given us quite a lot of their surplus fruit which they have no use for, so we make jam/chutney out of it and share it with them.
At work I ask people to bring in their empty jam jars etc. and give them a jar of what we've made in return. What goes round comes round.
Not had much luck in skips lately. I found a watering-can which will do as a spare for the allotment. Most of the skips I've looked in have got tons of rubble shovelled on top of anything that looks remotely useful - not very sporting of them, is it?

dpack



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 19, 05 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

remember , we are all wombles . paraphrase.tatting good .

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