But are you legally allowed to do that?

The advice in most places is that any stuff left on the kerb is fair game, although some councils believe discarded goods technically become their property the moment they’re dumped there.

Other councils believe residents continue to own the property on their nature strips until it’s snapped up by a scavenger.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority says it’s an offence to leave litter in a public place like footpaths and people can be fined.

So, where do you stand?

As the adage goes ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ and if you’re tossing it out anyway, should you care if someone takes it?

Surely it’s better for your discarded stuff to be reused by someone else rather than ending up as landfill? 

HAVE you ever wondered how most people would react if they were told every week or so what the community thought of them?

Would most bosses feel hurt, for example, if a regular poll among their employees showed they were mean and bad tempered?

Would mayor Reg Kidd jump off the Orange Civic Centre roof if a poll showed he only had the support of 48 per cent of ratepayers?

The thoughts are prompted by the ever-increasing polls being thrust on us every second day.

Polls that one week tell us Premier Gladys Berejiklian might as well resign because nobody loves her anymore, while the following week she might find she needn’t resign after all because her popularity went up one per cent and it would suffice if she just wandered off and sat under a shady tree.

But what about us? If we had the unnerving experience of picking up the newspaper at breakfast and reading how our own popularity had plunged, how would we feel?

Imagine asking drivers who had just copped a $353 speeding fine what they thought of highway patrol police and you hear some terrible tales from eight-year-olds about teachers and dentists.

As far as politics go, there’s only one poll and that’s the ballot box on election day.