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babymoo

Your nicer than me dolly - old or not i'd have had a few choice words for her! What cheek!!

Reffy

Hi,

what an interesting thread! I'm an eager freecycler and hate to see the things that get thrown away when I visit the tip with my very genuine non-salvagable rubbish. In fact, I sometimes come back with more than I left the house with as I can pass on anything saleable to my Mother In Law for her church sales in aid of local homeless people.

Its so hard/impossible to distinguish real need. My daughter's boyfriend was homed by Shelterpoint in a flat with nothing but a bed, a sette, a cooker and a fridge. He had no state benefits or any sort of income at all and came from an abusive family who gave him hardly any support. His luxuries like a table, curtains, crockery, microwave, spare sheets etc came from generous freecyclers and some ebay bargains. However, I never had the front to post a long list of items, just asked politely for things that were offered.

A long while back a post came on our local list from some students setting up home together, asking (politely - this is so important) for anything they could use. I had a futon sofa bed and a fridge and a freezer that were very much past their best and offered them, pointing out their faults.

The young people hired a van and did the rounds of all the people who had offered them things, and were extremely grateful - even giving me a bottle of wine.

I suppose the point of this reminiscing is that I love freecycle! I've met such nice people, and seen such good results.

Of course you get scammers and chancers. I too hate the 'ring me on my mobile' responses. I was giving away some small items and said the area I live in (close to a station) to get a response like that and a request to bring them to the station NOW and then they could get them off me. I replies saying they could collect at a certain time as I got no other response and they did turn up on foot, asking for anything else I might have .. I don't answer their requests anymore;)

thepedestrian

I hate the white van "trawlers" who will just comb an area after picking up addresses from Freegle and trawl everything to resell ( yes I know if I want rid then I want rid - but they blatently lie in the emails they send to get contact details )

niklepic

This one made me chuckle - they should really help her up:D

hello freecyclers i am desperate for a double bed for my daughter as hers has broke and she has been on the floor for weeks..thank you for your consideration

kiwi_fruit

niklepic wrote: »

This one made me chuckle - they should really help her up:D

hello freecyclers i am desperate for a double bed for my daughter as hers has broke and she has been on the floor for weeks..thank you for your consideration

what one has to do to break a bed..?:D

hermum

On mine earlier,
I have to offer my stinky 23 year old fat practically bald boyfriend. He wears the same socks for days on end and leaves his dirty underwear on the bedroom floor. He has toe nails like Shreks and can't cook a pizza without burning it. Doesn't like animals of any kind and moans about everything. Buys a new car ever month because he makes up some excuse about the one he's got being broken. Free to collector or will happily deliver.
Then an update, I thought that maybe she'd relented,
He's actually 32 made a typo
I have a feeling he may end up in landfill.

dander

Reading this I think my local Freegle must be some kind of prize winner because we don't have half of the nonsense the rest of you do! Although, the moderators on ours are beyond fierce, and you have to get a certain amount of emails through on pre-moderation before they give you access to post straight to the list. I love it most for getting hold of weird bits of rubbish, that you can't really buy and getting rid of big, heavy stuff - pretty much any old nonsense from the garden will have eager people snapping it up - old crazy paving went, fence posts etc - even had plenty of takers when a delivery came on a huge sturdy pallet.

I've had a couple of times though when I've given something away and then I see that person freecycling it on a bit later - that annoys me because I feel like I picked the wrong person to give it to.

cally6008

At least they freecycle it on and not sell it or tip it

hermum

OOh I'm quite happy if someone has something & then a little later puts it back on, as I know that often people need something then until they can afford to get what they would choose when they can afford it. I think a cooker I put on is now on about it's fourth home after me, & I got it from beside a skip when I was desperate a while ago.
That to me is the spirit of freecycle.

gocurlygirl

I still love freecycle-I recently requested an item but unfortunately before I collected it I broke my ankle:(.I am sure the freecycler thought hmm yes,I believe that.It is true:o.