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thepedestrian

"the movement round here has become a cesspit of scroungers".


like it - very descriptive !! :beer:

chickywiggle

Just a selection of what I have woken up to this monring:

My daughter has asked if I can find a play station 2 for my grandaugter.
I know nothing about them but if anyone is having a clearout before christmas, I would be happy to collect.
Thank you for reading.

infact there were another 2 requests for PS2's!!

wanted: tv for christmas
Can anyone please help. TV needed for my friend who's tv has broken down. Large side please, preferably 28ins or bigger.

We have a TV that's been given to us but we need a stand or table to put it on. If anyone has one, the dimesions of which are 26"/66cm x 21"/53cm, at least.

Looking for a wooden cot bed with or without the mattress if
any one has one spare, also quilt and bumper sets to use on it,
but it has to change into a junior bed not just be a cot, this
will save me from having to change it later on as we have limited bedroom space, i'm more than happy to collect if were lucky enough
to be offered one thanks.

wanted:lego and playmobile
hi is anyone having a clear out of there childrens toys,in time for christmas, my grandsons are really hoping for some lego so they can build there own toys from there imagination. as lego is virtually indistructable, they really would love some. any type of lego would be great and i can pick up from most areas.
they have also asked for some play mobil so they can play make believe. with the figures etc

Penda

One from this morning shocking what some people need / expect /want...

WANTED
Subject Turkey / Turkey Crown
Location anywhere
Description Hope someone can help?
We have the entire family for christmas dinner this year and really struggling to find a turkey big enough!
Needs to feed 20+ people?
Heeeeelllllppppp!
Thanking you all in advance.
Merry Christmas!

chickywiggle

eughhhh
1) like you'd give away a turkey that big.
2) would you reallly want to risk the chance of food poisioing - who knows how its been stored
3) surly they have not only been told this week 20+ people are coming
4) if your house is big enough to fit 20+ for dinner you can afford turkey
5)have beef/ chicken/ pork/ lamb instead!

i put some christmas decs up last night (that they were supposed to collect between 10-10.30am but theere!!) one of the people who wanted them was "disorganised and not even bought a tree yet" - well what you gonna hang em on????

Penda

I have offered a few things but fed up of rude people,last time three pieces of exercise equipment turned up two hours late no apology or thank you so charity shop for me now. Makes me laugh at what people want though surely they know they won't get expensive items or turkey..

chickywiggle

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VanillaDelia

thepedestrian wrote: »

just got this on our local Freecycle

"Thin nose hair straightners not been used for a year or so only thing wrong
with them is the bulb has gone that lets you know when there up to
temperature"

made us laugh ! - what will they come up with next...... talk about the present for someone who has everything !! :rotfl:

I think you may have misunderstood, but then they have not described them well. Thin Nose, as in Thin/narrow end Hair straighteners, those that get thinner towards the tips....for Hair on the Head lol. :rotfl:

Mrs.W_2

Posted on our local site..

Offered Elvis Presley memorabilia Xxxxxxx
Any Elvis fans out there? I recently got married and my husband has said he is no longer sharing the bedroom with another man dead or alive.

hermum

This has just come up on ours
Wanted urgently wood burner



Looking for a wood burner any condition. Also anyone in my area that
can give me a quote for fitting it.

No please, thank you kiss my ***. I'm also looking for a stove 2nd hand ones are going for a couple of hundred quid.

dizziblonde

I'm seeing that the festive season has arrived in earnest on ours - the PS2s wanted... waiting for the 11pm inevitable request for a Wii since my son's going to be so disappointed on Xmas day.

The one that's just annoyed me to the point of almost quitting the group - "I need a blackberry for our community group, we need to be in contact 24-7"... no you naffing well don't and you post scrounges for computer equipment every single week without fail. It's got so bad I post stuff up offered with the line that I want no sob-stories, no demands for delivery and no, I'm not calling your mobile phone number to arrange collection. Sad when it's got to that level - and downright ridiculous... I was actually shocked when I offered something fairly high-ticket recently (a cooker) and got an incredibly appreciative person collecting it with a thank you card and follow-up email to let me know it was working perfectly!... then I got a horrid email a few days later from someone who'd posted a wanted for one (with attached massive sob story demanding delivery) about three weeks previously and I hadn't gone right the way back through the group archives from when I was net-less moving house and immediately offered it to her.

Few years ago it reached ridiculous levels with the Wiis/PS3s/DSes... we had a cracking one, posted on Christmas Eve - "My son's got a new DS game for Christmas and he's got nothing to play it on, and I can't bear the look on his face when he opens his presents tomorrow and realises this - does anyone have a DS they can deliver this evening to make a poor little boy's Christmas?"... from one of the serial scroungers.

We also have what I know as the Fictionalbitoftownville Electrical Bermuda Triangle - who posts on a weekly basis (our wanteds are limited to one per-week)."Hi there, I was wondering if anyone had a TV/Washing Machine/Tumble Drier/Microwave - must be silver/CD player/vaccum cleaner/other electrical item as mine's given up the ghost this morning and I've just lost my job this week (again, every week)"... either she's got an incredibly run of bad luck on a highly amusing weekly rotation, or lives in some kind of weird vortex where electrical equipment dies on a 7 day cycle... or she's taking the piddle.