Freegle saved me a couple of hundred quid

orinoco

Just thought I'd post this as it is the first proper bit of money saving I have done for a while!:)

I recently took down a lot of garden wall and some huge leylandii bushes. I got quotes for removal. The cheapest skip company wanted £160 for a large skip for the rubble and my local man-with-a-van wanted £120 + VAT to remove the leylandii material.

On the off-chance I listed the rubble on Freegle as hardcore and the same day a very nice couple came with their van several times and took it all away to use in their garden. They also took an old uPVC door that had sat in my garage for a year or so.

I found a "wanted" for firewood elsewhere on Freegle and offered them the leylandii branches and trunks which they took off in their trailer.

All that remained was a few trips to the local dump where the leylandii greenery will be composted, less than £10 in diesel.

So £160 + £144 - £10 = £294 saved I think

I cannot recommend Freegle/Freecycle heavily enough.

Last year someone took away most of our old kitchen when we replaced it as well

Orinoco x

ic

I've used Freegle to be rid of things I just can't shift myself, or just have left over and don't have value enough to be worth trying to sell. A 6ft long radiator I'd never fit in the car, and three rolls of loft insulation which were left over - they only cost £3 from NPower anyway. I always suggest Freegle as an alternative to skips - and you *know* the stuff will get reused, rather than dumped.

UncleZen

same goes for freecycle aswell, there may be one or the other or both in your area.

mttylad

Why not let them know here