Feb
23
Skip diving, skip dipping, scavenging, rummaging, recycling. Whatever you want to call it, taking stuff from a skip and reusing it is socially accepted and on the increase. A combination of tightened purse strings, unemployment and black market activity has led to people up and down the country flocking to their nearest skip and taking home a treasure or two. And in no greater way has this bean illustrated than in North Lincolnshire.
Over the weekend a fancy dress shop in Grimsby went bust… and lets take a minute here – it’s always sad when such a giver of joy in the community has to put a stop on laughter and curtail the legal supply of chest wigs to the general population. But, in one last act of costume related generousity, this fancy dress shop dumped all it’s stock in a skip outside. Within minutes, Mr Blobby was there, a 6-foot dog and some kind of cat stroke duck creature, plus many more ’skip divers’ having a good ol’ nosey. Check out the pictures here…