The All New Rag & Bone Men!

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simon2710
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The Rag and Bone men aren't doing too bad I see though, everytime he comes down my street, every time he seems to have loads of metal in the back of the van or on the cart. I took a video, but it's the poorest of qualities but you may be able to make out what he was saying, even though I struggle
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Lilysmum
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Having had three collection bags through my letterbox this week to fill with unwanted clothing,shoes bedding etc made me think that these collection companies who sell the stuff abroad and say they give a donation to some obscure charity are the "new rag men"I'm not convinced they are all bona fide.Charity shops must be taking a real hit from them as it's easier to leave a bag of stuff on the doorstep than take it to their local shop

simon2710
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Lilysmum wrote: Having had three collection bags through my letterbox this week to fill with unwanted clothing,shoes bedding etc made me think that these collection companies who sell the stuff abroad and say they give a donation to some obscure charity are the "new rag men"I'm not convinced they are all bona fide.Charity shops must be taking a real hit from them as it's easier to leave a bag of stuff on the doorstep than take it to their local shop Generally, the lowlives that steal the clothing bags from your doorstep, drive vans without official markings but anyway they are in a different league totally to our rag and bone men so let's keep then separate
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Post by Chrism »

I suspect a lot of the stuff is sold on ebay and at car-boots!
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Brandy
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Post by Brandy »

Round here on the Gipton they have started putting them 'large' blue collection boxes up for people to put clothes in?Now that's what i really call 'extracting the urine'Talk about chariddeeeee begins at home'n'all that!
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simon2710 wrote: Lilysmum wrote: Having had three collection bags through my letterbox this week to fill with unwanted clothing,shoes bedding etc made me think that these collection companies who sell the stuff abroad and say they give a donation to some obscure charity are the "new rag men"I'm not convinced they are all bona fide.Charity shops must be taking a real hit from them as it's easier to leave a bag of stuff on the doorstep than take it to their local shop Generally, the lowlives that steal the clothing bags from your doorstep, drive vans without official markings but anyway they are in a different league totally to our rag and bone men so let's keep then separate Oh, I don't know...We spent a Sunday tidying the front garden and had 4 full green garden waste bags to go to the tip. It was too late by the time we'd finished and besides a cold beer was calling me, so we left them by the gate to take the following weekend.We got home from work the following day to find that the nice "charity" collection people had been in and taken them! Goodness knows what they thought when they opened them though.
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rangieowner
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Post by rangieowner »

PIKEYS!!!!!! That's what modern rag an bone men are! I should know I worked with enough of the theving buggas!!!
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rangieowner wrote: PIKEYS!!!!!! That's what modern rag an bone men are! I should know I worked with enough of the theving buggas!!! So! THAT'S how you got your 4X4 Rangie!!!lol

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Post by bramley13 »

dont leave things in your garden when the guys with the white van comes around. if they see things in there,they just come in and help themselves

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arry awk wrote: rangieowner wrote: PIKEYS!!!!!! That's what modern rag an bone men are! I should know I worked with enough of the theving buggas!!! So! THAT'S how you got your 4X4 Rangie!!!lol No Arry! that was a different life working with Pikeys!! lol
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