 Poster: A snowHead
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Ok so I've got some nice new ones, but just putting the old liners-disintegrated ones in the bin seems a bit environmentally unfriendly.
Any suggestions?
Polite ones preferred, but don't mind surreal!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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pots for plants?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Use them as planters for your patio.
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I thought everyone put them in the attic. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Wear The Fox Hat, great minds and all that!
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Mine are somewhere in my parent's house. In the original box.
The "old" ones (keep in mind that the "current" ones are 12 y.o.) aren't too overused but are Salomon Sx 92 racing rear entry boots...
I'm thinking of taking them out of the "o" status and to reuse them the next season , since could be in better shape that the current Tecnica TNTs...
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One spring, in haste, I put a well-worn pair of Dale boots on a shelf in our back-yard shed without first boxing them up. At the start of the next ski season, when I went to use them, it appeared that two squirrel families had taken up residence and raised their young in them. Needless to say, the condition that the boots were in forced my decision to finally purchase a new pair.
With respect to the original question, if you don't like the previous "planters for flowers" suggestion, offering them in the squirrel community as "affordable housing" would undoubtedly be seen as a generous and noble gesture.
Tom / PM
PS - In the near-by state of West Virginia, only the most massive of truck tires are considered suitable as planters. Attempting to use ski boots for that purpose would clearly mark you as some sort of citified wuss.
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Glad to hear that you managed to get some new ones at last! Plant the old ones upside down in a large gro-bag, water frequently, keep out of draughts ...... 
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And you'll grow a whole new skier! 
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Physicsman, I live in a village and already have severe trouble with the wildlife taking liberties.
I also have the cleverest squirrels on the planet who have no difficulty dismantling bird feeders, padlocks etc. If i gave them to the squirrels I'd next see them passing me on the Hahnekamm having reconditioned them and taken up skiing!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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> ...I'd next see them passing me on the Hahnekamm having reconditioned them and taken up skiing! ...
If only I could draw...What a great cartoon that would make.
Tom / PM
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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mountain mad, I don't care if it's true or not. It made me laugh!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Mine are up in the loft, maybe re-cycled by sister next season, who may be coming skiing with us. Or-I may go back to using them if I can't get my new ones to be more comfortable.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Chris Bish, if your boots are anything like mine, fill them with peanuts, place them in the garden and you'll never have another squirrel problem again.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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mountain mad, the story calls for a ROFLMAO.
My colleagues are looking over at me and shaking their heads thinking I'm definitely gone insane.
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skanky, Brilliant idea. It's the moles I hate most though. I really quite like the squirrels to be honest.
The peanut idea would wipe out the bird life.......
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Chris Bish, fill 'em with cement and suspend them above a mole hill. Place a motion detector aiming at said hill, wired to an actuator that releases the suspension cable.
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Not if the neighbour/colleague has a dickie ticker!
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Has anybody come up with any additional possible solutions to this problem in the last ten years? 
(I have a pair that are a bit worn but as far as I know basically sound and just don't fit me very well)
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Mine all went to the guy who bought some of our old ski stuff (sold on ebay) he was sending kit out to Bulgaria for a rental shop and when he saw I was throwing them out, took them too!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I've left a pair fairly prominently beside the "poubelle" containers at my apartment - they got taken. I am going to do the same with a pair of snowchains which don't fit my present car, when I go back in March.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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finestgreen, ebay all the way. Until an item has not sold on ebay for 1p it cannot be thrown away. Or something. I think this is the policy of various members of my family.
Wasn't someone putting together ski gear for the school in Pakistan recently?
Failing all of this, the charity shop might well find a new home for them and put it puts a couple of quid in their pot.
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I flog mine on Fleabay, they sell quite well as they're always top quality, plus I keep the stock liners unused as I put my Zip-Fits in.
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You know it makes sense.
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Well, ten years on and I have the same problem again. I must be a bit of a skinflint to only buy new boots every ten years!
They still fit the skis I had at the time, too, which I sometimes dig out for dry slope, so I should keep them for that, I suppose.
The 2004 pair were given to a guy who was off to Bulgaria for his first ski holiday. I told him they would be better than anything he could hire there, which was probably true at the time.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Mine are on eBay at the moment. Admittedly, there's plenty of skiing left in them - it's just I replaced them with a stiffer pair.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Freecycle.
pam w, why not advertise your chains on here?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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As others have said, they make ideal pots for plants. A few year ago I put some brackets above my garage, bolted some old (step daughters) skis on to them and attached a pair of my old boots and planted some trailing lahbelia (sp). I thought they looked very good, unfortunately no one else did.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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unfortunately no one else did.
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how extraordinary....
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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2 years ago I left my Hunter wellingtons in the garage.....forgot about them but also realised that we'd left a bag of bird peanuts over the other side of the garage in some orange Sainsburys carrier bags. Came to look for my Wellies.......mmm, one full to the brim with peanuts, the other full of ripped up orange bags and yellow insulation off some insulated plasterboards......and VERY smelly (poo-ville).......Squirrels are so industrious......Wellies cleaned out and back in use .........proper Yorkshireman?! 
And the moral of this is that everything is useful........ish!
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Mine go in the plastics re-cycling bin - (bright blue here in Lancashire) - if I lived over the border in Yorkshire, I would probably advertise them in the Yorkshire Evening Post 
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Traditionally I think you're supposed to turn them into a bong.
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skitech, yeah too right
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and watch their reaction from behind a tree! 
