clear my skip!
I too am happy when people take stuff out of my skip - after all I put unwanted rubbish into the skip..and if they empty it before its collected then i can put more rubbish in!
why do you feel aggreived by their action? You've only had taken what you'd thrown away. heck , you could have given them the stuff for free and not paid for a skip in the first place......
its like old IT kit. we are very happy for folk to come and collect the old PCs and monitors we are getting rid of (HDs are all wiped very clean, serial numbers, licence keys stickers etc removed) as, with WEE regulations etc it costs us money to get rid of the stuff. at least 50 quid per unit. if someone wants a free 17" CRT with a PII 512MB and 60Gb HD system..then fine. we cant sell it. we cant even ebay it.