If you are one of these people (like me) who can’t pass a skip without peering in to see if there is something useful, then now is the time to walk the streets of the student district in your town. It is incredible what they throw away come the end of the year. Either it doesn’t fit in daddy’s Volvo or gets left behind for the landlord to chuck out. This weekend is going down time in Bristol (other Universities may vary). Do the council (and the environment) a service and pick up the useful looking things. If you don’t want them, put them on Freecycle.